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Hi
I woke my tortoise from her 3 month hibernation on Sunday. I did what I usually do, which is to put her in water for half an hour so that she drinks (I think she did) and then put her into her special indoor pen (we keep her in here until the frosts pass) with a heat lamp. Usually she passes a white pasty faeces the next day and then eats normally.
This time, she hasn't done that and hasn't touched her food, she has just stayed in the house bit of her pen. I have picked her up and put her next to the food, and under the lamp, but she just goes back to her house.
It is particularly cold here at the moment, and although I have the heating on full blast, I wonder if she is too cold to eat?
Can anyone offer any advice please?
I woke my tortoise from her 3 month hibernation on Sunday. I did what I usually do, which is to put her in water for half an hour so that she drinks (I think she did) and then put her into her special indoor pen (we keep her in here until the frosts pass) with a heat lamp. Usually she passes a white pasty faeces the next day and then eats normally.
This time, she hasn't done that and hasn't touched her food, she has just stayed in the house bit of her pen. I have picked her up and put her next to the food, and under the lamp, but she just goes back to her house.
It is particularly cold here at the moment, and although I have the heating on full blast, I wonder if she is too cold to eat?
Can anyone offer any advice please?