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I have this 2 year old "pet rock" (WHT, Smidgen). He basks a lot more now that (he thinks) he's a big boy. A temperature probe, measuring at "shell height", shows the highest basking temp is 95°. There are lots of shady places where he moves to self-regulate. All good. My concern is that...

Thought it might be fun to try our virtual hands on some haikus about tortoises! I'm no haiku expert. They do appeal to me though because of their brevity and because of the attempt to capture a "haiku moment" which author Paul Janeczko (How to Write Haiku and other Short Poems) describes this...

My Smidgen is a baby Western Hermann's. Yesterday in his soak (in a take-out food dish!) he pooped out a turd that was half as long as his body (I was so proud!) But, it made me curious. I can deal with an inch-long poo, but what must folks who have, for example Sulcatas, experience in this...

Say hello to Smidgen! He’s our 3-month old Western Hermann’s Tortoise from Garden State Tortoises. He’s of the Mallorca locale – the smallest of the small (and the cutest of the cute!) His motto is “Diminutive is Superlative!” ? When we got him, he was a little bigger’n a quarter (a little...

Are tortoises not susceptible to getting parasites from eating plants that grow wild in the yard? When we got our Bearded Dragon, this was a huge deal on the discussion forums and so we've never fed him anything we didn't grow ourselves in a controlled environment. Maybe beardies are just more...

Doing the necessary preparations to adopt a male (definitely), baby (maybe juvenile) Hermann's this year. Our menagerie includes a Bearded Dragon and a Panther Chameleon - oh yeah - and our dog (he and the 'zards don't interact). We plan to build an open indoor tortoise table - many thanks...

Hello! I plan to adopt a Western Hermann's this year. Not new to Pet Parenthood; have had dogs my whole life and also now have a Bearded Dragon and a Panther Chameleon. I have been doing a lot of research on the small tortoises (great resource, this!), and I have a few specific questions that...