After three and a half months in the fridge, we felt we had a good chance of sun the following weekend and started slowly raising temps from forty degrees last Saturday, hoping to get to fifty-five or so before she got angsty.
Didn’t happen. Addy was READY to go before she hit 50 degrees so we put her in her heated box this morning, with the door shut and the heat at sixty. Things got sunny and warm around two so I opened the door. Within two minutes she was out, eating a rose petal. I gave her a soak and she trundled off to bask
I got home at five pm to find her basking on the door to her box, which gets the last sun of the day.
One more soak and she went to bed. About as good a hibernation as one could hope for and a relief after last year’s respiratory infection.
We say this about Russians all the time, how active they are in the spring, but it really has to be seen to be believed!
Didn’t happen. Addy was READY to go before she hit 50 degrees so we put her in her heated box this morning, with the door shut and the heat at sixty. Things got sunny and warm around two so I opened the door. Within two minutes she was out, eating a rose petal. I gave her a soak and she trundled off to bask
I got home at five pm to find her basking on the door to her box, which gets the last sun of the day.
One more soak and she went to bed. About as good a hibernation as one could hope for and a relief after last year’s respiratory infection.
We say this about Russians all the time, how active they are in the spring, but it really has to be seen to be believed!