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- MI've been monitoring this post and I don't have much additional to add. Except for the location of the OP. Is there any way you can...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread Are my tortoises healthy ?.i agree with keeping him outside , with all the precautions mentioned .......properly set up safe outside enclosure is always better...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread Russian Tortoise is sick.it's summer ,you should set him up outside if possible , it's easy , not expensive , when done right , there are a lot less mistakes to...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread Anything I can do to make my tortoise happier?.the enclosure walls/fence needs sunk in the ground a few inches ....... a larger enclosue with plant cover and a shrub/shrubs near the...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread upper respiratory tract infection and what tests to determine..this is the world wide internet ,i don't believe you can find 5 people who have legitimately had a tortoise die from a baytril injection...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread Anything I can do to make my tortoise happier?.make a pen that gives him access to the ground ....... they use the ground as one tool to thermoregulate .........
- MHey, everybody...meet Bishop! He's an approximately 5 yr old shepherd mix, but the shepherd is very dominant. We have no idea what he's...
- Mmark1 reacted to turtlesteve's post in the thread Bells hingeback tortoises - positive for tortoise intranuclear coccidia with
Like. Just a warning to folks: a close friend working with Bell’s hingebacks has relayed to me a positive diagnosis for TINC (intranuclear... - Mmark1 replied to the thread Can tortoises hear?.i don't know who that is either , but reading the little bit i read ,i'm doubtful this is his expertise . quote Jim Lindsay "As humans...
- MHey, Mark: I don't know who Jim Lindsay is but if you click on "hear" in the above post it takes you to an article written by him.
- Mmark1 replied to the thread Can tortoises hear?.anyone i have ever seen actually publish a study on this question said yes , tirtles and tortoises hear ...... they ears are as complex...
- MThank you SO MUCH!!!! I soaked him earlier today. He did his business in the water as well, white pee looked good but poop was small...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread 3 Toed Box Turtle.while i keep terrapene carolina carolina as opposed to terrapene carolina triunguis ..... mine live outside , if they eat weeds i never...
- Mmark1 replied to the thread Hibernation???!.we get november weather in may regularly , they still somehow know it's may not november ......... his substrate looks pretty dry ? yes...