Hi again Jel!

I'm understadning your vets advice a bit better now. On warm days Stan would be fine outside in his pen for a while.

Its true you can get cold draughts in the house especially at floor level. If there was any way of putting the pen up at table height indoors I doubt there would be any cold draughts and you can keep the temp at whatever your vet says with your lights.

Its possible to buy on E Bay 'tortoise tables' quite cheap that can sit on top of a table. .

I've found that there are various times when I just have to have my torts indoors and persoanlly I don't feel the floor is the right place. So you might want to consider an indoor facility that you can fall back on for Stan that you have confidence in. Generally mine don't try and escape from the tortoise table I have for them.

Sorry I'm rambling now..........!

thats a good idea Ozric, to get him in some sort of containery pen thingy thats not so enclosed or draghty....i will have a thinky about what i can whack together. and ill definatley check out ebay!

ohhh i cant wait to be able to leave him outside all day long i know he is so much happier out there! im WILLING the summer to come! i let him have a little run around the floor this evening, kept an eye on him. he just strolled around and is now asleep in the corner so when i go to bed ill take him with me and put him in his shelter. hopefully he will stay there and not be climbing all night!

feel free to ramble my love, i need all the info you can spare! lol!
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Hi, the weather here in Glasgow Scotland was just great for my torts today. They were outside from 8 till 8 and loved evry minute! They just come to life outside.

stan is sleeping much better at night and tolerating baths more since being outside so is visibly much happier!
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Jelbel, so glad to hear Stan is doing better and is able to be outside more. I know you must be happy you can take a little bit of a breather especially now that the baby is getting even closer.
By the way congratulations is this your first?

hi robyn! yeah its my first, and inching my way there, 2 weeks til my due date! yay!
its so lovely to set stan free in the air in his pen. little bugger slipped out of the enclosure the other day (my fault, i put the corner of the pen overlapping a bit of low ground and he squeezed out- after flapping and panicking i found him asleep in a bush!) so yesterday i sat and watched him potter around the garden, snapping at random bit n pieces. he trampled dads onion patch to mush but dad got revenge by mowing the lawn today taking the clover with it! grr! so ill be off weed picking before i put stan to bed tonight!
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