McKenna
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- Jul 11, 2015
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Hi, I own a Russian Tortoise and I've had him almost 3 weeks. His bavior seems a bit off and I don't if it's for health reasons. I want to know what I need to do to help him. For the past few days he seems to sleep all day every other day. So one day he's out all energized, sitting in the basking area, and very social. Then the next I don't see him at all. Hes sleeping in his hide away all day. I don't want to take him out because I want to leave him alone, but he doesn't even come out to eat. Also, he never drinks water. I have a shallow bowl that he can easily crawl into that is always full of clean water and he never goes in and drinks on his own. He drinks when I bathe him once a week, but I feel like he needs to be drinking more water. Also another issue, he doesn't eat by himself. He only eats if I give it to him by hand or put him in his food bowl. He eats a lot and it's not like he's refusing. I just want to know what to do? Did I train him that he can only eat if I force him to? If that's the case how do I train him to eat on his own?