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Hi does anybody have any creative ideas on how to keep it cool for a couple of days? (desert tortoise) I'm in So cal and it's supposed to get hot this weekend, like 91 on monday last I checked. UGH! She already came out a couple of weekends ago when it was 80. She is in a tub in a north east...

Hi I am there too so feel for you. I'm in So Cal and it was 85 yesterday, 73 in the night, and that's going to be going on for over a week according to weather reports. I know she's gonna come out so I guess I'd better take her door down so she can. TOO EARLY! What is up with this weather!!?

Hi Gabriel, I can tell you that for my family a brick house worked. It was in a south/west corner of our backyard and pretty much shaded all day long because of a tree and bushes. It was ABOVE ground level, maybe about 6 inches with a ramp going up just made of dirt. The house itself was about...

Thanks Tom. I also have a created a wall of bricks around the enclosure, and some potted plants sit around it as well to create another layer of insulation, so i do get that it needs to be a cool space. It is in the shade all day also for this time of year. I like the idea of an old freezer...

The box is in a planter that she hangs out in. It's a little above ground level under some lemon bushes against a wall.

Hi Yvonne, I don't really have a spot where it will stay 45. I'm in so. cal and today it was 80 and it's up and down constantly. It is finally supposed to be 40's all next week at night. Anyway, I did the plastic because her enclosure has always been outside and she doesn't like the brick house...

Hi made a new enclosure for this winter out of a storage tub and all is good, she likes it, but she can't seem to settle down in there. I hear her constantly scratching against the plastic as if to go deeper and so I wonder if I don't have enough dirt in there for her. ?? Right now there is...

Thank you. I am in Anaheim. She has never been a drinker, like out of a bowl or the hose. I tried but she ignored. She has always gotten her water from her food or there is a little dish i put lettuce in with water and she gets it there. And then I give her periodic soaks. Nothing going on in...

Thanks Tom!

Thanks Yvonne. Yes her home outside is actually a "burrow" I made for her, surrounded by brick walls and a roof so rain can't get in. I always put a couple of bricks in front of the doorway to discourage stray kitties going in, but she has pushed them away. It's in a south/east corner with a...

I live in southern California and my girl has come out of hibernation for the second time this winter and it concerns me. It's supposed to be 82 degrees today! She is 40+ years old and I don't recall this ever happening before. I'm concerned for her health, metabolism.....should I be feeding...

Here she is. Her name is Lickity Split and she has been in my family since around 1975 or so. I inherited her when my mom passed and I see my little old mom in her face every day. She used to be my profile pic but that seems to have dropped off I don't know what happened there. You can see in...

That's what I thought/hoped! Thanks Yvonne! Naw I wouldn't put anything on her either--she is beautiful to me either way!

Hi All, I have a 40(+) year old Cal Dessert Tortoise who's shell is looking dry and dull and I wonder if there is something I should be doing about it? Her diet is mostly backyard weeds, bermuda grass, green leaf lettuce and occasionally apple or banana--and has been her whole life. Wondering...