Recent content by JonM

Thanks @KBeam @WildeAxel @JoesMum @Chubbs the tegu @maggie18fan Sorry some of you guys lost your shelled friends too, particularly @JoesMum losing Joe after 40 years. We are now waiting for the plants we originally suspected to flower but at the moment we think they are ok afterall so like...

Only, thing I'm wondering is are you going to try and find the owner as I guess he/she escaped and they must be worried? If you can't find the owner and keep it then they are a lot of fun and can go outside even in the UK on warm, dry days, you will need an indoor setup for wet, cold days and...

Thanks everyone. Had two people ID the plant we thought was the cause as Herb Bennet which is actually good safe tortoise food, so may not be poisoning afterall, we will know for certain when it flowers. So what on earth happened we do not know was very quick, usually with tortoises you have...

Never been bitten by our Russian tortoise, although been close, you just need quick reactions or don't hand feed

Thanks the toughest part is not really knowing and seeing our friend suffer so much on that final day. Those of you who felt it was poisoning did you feel that based on the symptoms or just because Wanda had nibbled the leaves of a plant we weren't 100% sure of? I attach some pics of the plant...

Thanks for your replies. Yes I think we got complacent. I think even if it wasn't poisoning we should have been more careful. The bit that made us think it might be pneumonia was the amount of mucus she produced and that she had her beak open and later on struggled to breathe and often would...

We had a captive bred Spur-Thighed female called Wanda for 30 years since she was 3 years old. She got sick on sunday and died at the vets a few hours later. We are heartbroken as the day before she seemed the picture of health, marching around and following me round the garden, eating and...