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  1. J

    Sweaters?

    She has a carpeted room
  2. J

    Sweaters?

    I have a tutu for her to see her in the yard. Ty for your comment
  3. J

    Sweaters?

    I was trying to say I put sweaters on HER not here
  4. J

    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Ty. She doesn’t eat the hay or Timothy grass, she just ty again. She doesn’t eat the hay or grass, she burrows and sleeps in it. I just check it all the time and rotate it. I’ll look into coir next month when I change everything out again. Ty
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    Sweaters?

    They do absorb through shell which is why I only put them on here when she hangs out in the house with no light. Ie on my lap, walking around her room in the house
  6. J

    Sweaters?

    I only
  7. J

    Tortoise cozy/sweater

    My girl seems to be ok with it. But you have to have trust and I guess my girl and your babies trust you.
  8. J

    Sweaters?

    I have been using old socks I cut to my girl’s body. They seem to be great. Is it ok to cloth my girl to keep her body temp regulated?
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    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    I know she brumated but I was asking about the wild thing. Of course if she was wild she brumated. Ty
  10. J

    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Our girl Idgy goes outdoors most days for a few hrs then back in her enclosure. She seems thrilled with her home. The temps are like you said with the new home. I truly am grateful for your help. We’ve tried to do everything possible correctly for her from day one but there’s a ton of...
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    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Thank you so much!!!
  12. J

    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Thank you. I hate this. My baby is so special but I can tell has been traumatized
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    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Ty so much. I know they brumate every year. I don’t want to sound like a smart Ellic. I was just wondered how yall Know that. Thank you for the clarification. And oh gosh. They all do this? Why didn’t I know this? Of gosh how cruel.
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    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Thank you for all of your help. But his do you know my tortoise brumated every year til she was ‘captured’. How do you know that she was wild?
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    Idgy

    I posted a while ago about my baby girl. Idgy is a Russian Tortoise. She is a PetSmart tortoise which means she was kept in a dark small terrarium. I had her in a glass tank like they did, felt sick about it so I deflected my PTSD on her and thought I could put her in a pool and she’d be...
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    Idgy Russian Tortoise new baby

    Hi. My husband and I got our girl from PetSmart (hopefully saving her). She has been captive her entire life. We were told she was five months old. NOT POSSIBLE. but we are having a hard time reading her scutes. We have her in a kid pool we scrubbed and filled with coconut husk and shredded...
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