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    do tortoises like owners scent?

    sometimes when i’m in a room i’ll let my tortoise walk around a bit to get some roam time, and i usually have one or two articles of my clothing on the floor ( i’m a teenager it’s a usual thing) and for months i’ve noticed my tortoise prefers to sit on my clothes then actually roam, he will sit...
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    tortoise not pooping

    hello again i post on here quite often because i’m always concerned about my little guy, but he’s a year and a half eastern hermann’s tortoise, and well i haven’t seen him poop in a couple days, i don’t know the exact amount but i know he hasn’t since christmas day, i can’t remember before...
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    white spot on eastern hermanns tortoise head

    hello! i have a year and a half old eastern hermanns torotise and i’ve noticed a white spot above his ear, that isn’t normal, ( i’ll ask pictures) not sure if it’s an abscess or skin, i will make a vet appointment as soon as it’s open again ( holidays right now ) but i wanted to see what...
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    i think my tortoise had a URI

    hello! i have a one year old eastern hermanns tortoise and lately i’ve noticed only when he goes to bed he sneeze and i have heard some wheezing come from him. i’m really concerned and am convinced it’s a URI i already have a vet app set for his one year checkup but the problem is the closest...
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    super happy tortoise

    hey guys i’m back lol, my tortoise turned 1 today !! he’s being as energetic as ever and even has started following me around the house whenever i have him walking about ( it rains a lot where i am and sometimes he needs to burn off some energy so i let him walk around it’s totally safe tho he’s...
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    camping w/ tortoise

    heyo im back A lot of ppl told me my tortoise would be stressed out if i took him camping and well, he is actually doing great and enjoying himself ! day 1 of camping went great, he did amazing in the car ride there and had a fun time running around in the grass of the campground eating...
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    tortoise going camping

    hello! Next week i’m going camping and i don’t wanna leave my tortoise home alone as he has the tendency to run around a lot and could get into some trouble as a hatchling would. it’s only for two days the ride up there is about an hour, i bought a carrier so he can be good during the car ride...
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    squeaking

    hello! my hermanns tortoise is about 8 months old and recently i’ve been hearing him squeak a lot more than just normal hiccups from him being so tiny, but he’s perfectly fine in every other way he does what he normally does so i don’t know if this is something i should worry about!!!
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    tortoise flips over and now is inactive

    hello! my eastern hermanns hatchling constantly loved climbing the walls of his enclosure and occasionally flips over bc of it ( no matter what i do he still does it ) but he did it yesterday and now he’s been kinda sluggish, only really staying in the same spot unless he’s hungry, he was moving...
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    Tortoise climbing everything

    So my tortoise loves to climb anything and everything but often he will flip himself over, are there any safe options of things i can put in his enclosure for climbing, he also tends to try to climb the walls for hours and calms down when i take him out, he’s 3 inches in a 3 foot enclosure, i...
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    respitory infection ?

    Hello! i’ve had my eastern hermanns tortoise for about 3 months now, he’s still a hatchling so he’s pretty small, for a little while now i’ve noticed he makes weird clicking sounds or almost like when you try to breath out with a stuffy nose but it just kinda click ? i can’t really explain it...
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    coconut fiber substrate mix bad ??

    hello! i have a hermanns tortoise he’s small still and i got him new coconut fiber substrate, and i mixed it with his other substrate it kind of looks like wood chips, he loves the wood chips but i needed something to keep moisture in, so i got the new stuff, and i’m concerned that when he...
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