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My 120 pound Henry leaves about 6-8 huge logs every single day and also usually urinates the normal whitish substance once every other day. They are huge and will go wherever they want to whenever they want to. Definitely agree that a lot of the bowel movements are performed in his sleeping...

Yeah I live in east mesa and we got hit hard. Henry is right around 120 pounds.

My Henry is nearly 120 pounds and he takes up the entire backyard.

Yeah it was nice to see though and my Henry loved it! It was an actual hardcore down pour at my house and he came right out of his burrow and sat in it for a while.

The way I transport my large sulcata is in the bed of my truck. Usually will wrap them in a heavy duty thick blanket to make it easier for the two of us to lift him into the truck. I will then spread the blanket down on the bottom of the bed of the truck. This keeps a barrier between the truck...

Those are some crazy photos. I have never seen my Henry attempt to eat any meat, but he hasn't really ever had the opportunity to, so who knows what he would do.

Arizona. The reason I don't plant winter grass is because I do not want to put seed or anything on the lawn with him in the backyard and he is way way way too large to bring in doors.

Hay is especially great during the winter when your summer grass isn't growing so then they can't graze as much. Then hay and leafy greens.

Tom thanks for the great advice as usual. Here's a little bit of extra things that I've experienced with my large adult male in Arizona. My tortoise, Henry, has a house that's surrounded by regular bricks and a piece of wood over the top. Inside his house he has his burrow. During the winter I...

Last time I filled my tortoises hole he ended up digging one about twice as large as the first one haha

I definitely agree tom. My Henry during the summer is out some mornings at like 430 and only for like an hour then mainly in his enclosure digging or asleep throughout the entire day until around 530-6 he will come out and do some hardcore grazing for two hours then go back down. Funniest thing...

Oh okay, so they do not hibernate. That's what I thought too. They are definitely an extremely interesting breed of tortoise.

So in the wild most of them do hibernate? I thought that they were non-hibernating tortoises. My way Henry is out all year long. Just for less hours in the winter and summer.

For the past two years that is all that Henry would do as well. He would shift dirt around just to be slightly under the normal level. Or once last summer he dug a hole outside of his house under my grill since there was shade there, but he did not dig as deep as he is this year. Yesterday I...

Keep everything minus the grazing on the grass and dark leafy greens to a minimum. I only do fruit like once a month or at most once every few weeks. Around Halloween I usually do some pumpkin as a snack as well. Which us completely fine for them. When I do do fruit I tend to do watermelon with...

Yvonne I'm sure you are correct on that opinion of yours. Henry does not dig at all during the winter and hasn't really much in the past in the summer. This summer has been extra hot for the past three weeks there hasn't been much moisture at all, so sure this could be a major part to why he's...

Yes that structure against the fence with the bricks and the wood on top is his house. I never have his house blocked off though. This morning I fixed it all up for him and covered it even more to make the area where his hole is a lot darker.

Yvonne thanks for sharing. That is crazy because my Henry is about 120 pounds. I hope he is not getting into a digging mood because he has never dug much more then a little hole. Interesting to think of why they dig. I've always assumed that it was to cool off since Henry only does it in the...

Hello, Just thought I would give an example of how sulcatas can do a number on your yard when they are adults. Here's my very large male, Henry, and he always digs huge holes in the summer. This one tops it all. This is just some of the dirt from outside his house. Hole is about 2.5 feet...

Hello, Agreed be very cautious of what you do to your lawn or surrounding backyard. I do not spray pesticides on the walls inside my house that face the backyard or anywhere around the backyard. This is more of a safety measure in order to make sure no pesticides come through. Also I do not...