Recent content by RhodaE

Ha. Our guy is so crazy nothing would surprise me. I was just outside eating lunch and watering plants, and he followed me around of course, shoving the table up like an earthquake jolt, pushing pots, walking on top of the hose handle and setting it off crazily, and then pushing his car tire...

Interesting. You know, one funny thing my tortoise has done more than once. I'll be digging a hole to plant a small shrub or larger flower plant, and I'll have a hole maybe a foot or more deep I'm preparing...and of course he has to come over and watch the whole thing and he'll go right to the...

We had an incident the other day so I was just on here looking to see if others have experienced the same thing. Our leopard tortoise is about 35 years old. The first time this happened, we were carrying him at a slight angle and when we set him down, his head was stuck outside his shell in a...

We've had our guy for over twenty years and this is really the only picture I have of him that I'd qualify as "cute" ha. I have way more pictures of him being a bully troublemaker, or just eating or showing off.

Is there someone you can leave your tortoise with for a few days while you tackle the situation fully? I would do that. If you don't know anyone, surely someone on this forum lives not far. Maybe do this twice a year or something until you can move. Our son lives in GA and had a similar...

He's a character! He thinks he's pretty handsome too.

I don't typically post anything but just thought I'd share a picture from yesterday. It was in the low 50's here in east TN, and we have a simple mobile greenhouse we set out in the yard and on days like that, we'll put our guy in there and let him graze. I sit in there with him for a good...

Generator is a must. We plan to fire it up as needed to power up our tort's radiant heater, maybe his light for a little bit. He'll be fine. We may have to crawl into his hut with him to keep ourselves warm! Ha.

I don't know about Indian Stars, but I was just thinking, for someone just starting out like you, you might consider learning as much as you can on this forum and then signing up as a specialized tortoise petsitter on Rover.com. It's hard to find petsitters who are willing, let alone able, to...

If I were you I would make all efforts to adopt an adult tortoise. We rescued a 14 year old leopard tortoise when we lived in CA. He was able to live outside, and we made a hut for him to sleep in. It was like a giant doghouse with the heater setup in one corner. We had a large yard with...

We use a TILE tag on our 30+ yr old leopard tortoise. We glued it onto his shell and my husband painted it to blend in with his shell. It has its limitations but it makes it SO much easier to quickly locate him in our yard. We check on him all throughout the day. The only two times he...

I just sent a friendly persuasive style email to him.

So glad you got him back! We use a TILE tracker on our tortoise, it makes it easy for us to activate from our porch, hear the sound, and now he's all right. We check on him every hour or two. You really have to glue it on well though. Our guy scraped his off and escaped into the forest when...

I am not an expert, but would like to add something. We adopted our leopard tortoise when he was a "teenager" about 14 years old. We don't know what he ate prior, but he was and is very pyramided so probably was given a poor diet in early years. Anyway, for the next 15 years he ate only...