Recent content by MNMacAdam

Thanks so much for the food tips. I am keeping printed lists of the valuable feedback from Tortis Forum members that I have received. I am very appreciative of the kind help and input I have had from so many of you! Blessings to all of you!

I got a soaking station fixed up today. She loved it and drank deeply from it and when I came back home she was out of it sunning a bit. How often should I place her in this 18" inch pot holder I have for her to dunk into if I don't see her there soon on her own?

Thanks so much!

NOTE: She has expelled urates in past summers. Have not seen any since taking her out of hibernation in late March. I am now planning how I can provide her with soaking in water opportunities which we have never done all these years. For 13 years she had a fenced, large backyard of our last home...

Very interesting and helpful. I will set up something to let her soak a bit at times. Thanks so much for the detailed information.MM

Not at all! She moves around to different places on our enclosed patio safely all day long. Sometimes sunning and sometimes in the shade.

The turf area is outside of our condo patio home fenced patio with a gate. She is secure in this area and I only occasionally during the spring, summer and fall take her out on the common area turf and watch her carefully. What do you mean by "self soak"? Send me your email and I will take a...

How do I access and get a copy of the Form's care sheet? I don't know what PM means to get further guidance from you??? I deeply appreciate your help on this.

Never ingesting the rocks, they are sized too big for that. Turf only accessible when I put her on it with a small 3'X4' wire fence I built and stick in the grass sod. How do I get a picture to you from my iPhone camera? I am 88, we don't know the age of Charlie but have been told she is very...

Do you have any suggestions for vetting vets on their competence and knowledge to properly diagnose and treat and very old tortoise? Key questions to ask them? Thanks so much!

Appreciate your input. We will follow your suggestions except the vet visit. I took her to a local woman vet to get checked 10 years back for the "bags". All I got was an eventual bill for just under $200 for her examination, some vitamin products, and some information I did not at the time...

No, not at all as best that I can tell.

No, not at all.

Thought it best to share short “bulleted” answers to your questions regarding Protrusions in front ofthe hind legs of my tortoise for ease of reading. · We don’t know the age of Charlie. I ended up taking her home for the summer from the school in which I was the principle of Turtle Rock...