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  1. Joanne

    Thinking of rehoming...

    Hi everyone, I feel guilty even thinking about this, but lifestyle changes mean I have less time to dedicate to my tortoise. We are renovating a house and I have just got a new job, where I will be working more hours. I feel like I do the bare minimum for Sherman currently and that might get...
  2. Joanne

    Moved House - Plant ID anyone?

    Hi everyone, we moved house in January and it's getting warm and fine enough to actually do some gardening. I've found a spot in our new garden where Sherman could safely go - it's a little walled off area where the shed currently sits. We started clearing the Ivy from around it yesterday and I...
  3. Joanne

    Strange Behaviour

    My hermanns tortoise seems really agitated at the moment. He's being quite aggressive and biting everything. When he is in his table he paces around banging against the sides. We are currently living with family and are in the middle of moving house. He is eating and drinking fine, but I...
  4. Joanne

    Dirty Habit

    So my tortoise has access to the garden via a flap in his enclosure which is outside. I've gone outside just now and caught him chowing down on a dog poo. A fresh one as I clean up after my dog every day, but sometimes I miss that he has been to the toilet. This isn't the first time Shermann...
  5. Joanne

    Ticks... eww.

    Took a 2nd tick off my dog today, found the first one the other day and i'm pretty sure it was dead. I frontline my dog regularly. This one was still alive and looked kind of flat and empty. I rubbed it with a tissue and it eventually let go. My dog wasn't happy about this. It was on his ear...
  6. Joanne

    Outdoor Tortoise House

    We are building an outdoor house for our Hermanns tortoise. It will be a place he can live, rain or shine. It's going to have a door to the garden so he can roam at leisure. I've bought an 'EVO' thermostat for a CHE which will be inside the hut, along with a UV strip bulb... because we are in...
  7. Joanne

    Outdoor Enclosure Questions - UK Based

    Hello, I have a 4 year old Hermann tortoise and I think he is ready to go outside now. He is feisty and I think he needs a bit more space to stomp about. So I have some questions regarding outdoor enclosures in the UK. I have seen this and I think we are going to build something similar...
  8. Joanne

    Horsfield on Facebook

    Seen this guy on facebook group Burnley Buy-Sell-Swap and it makes me sad! £100 for everything... I wish I had more space.
  9. Joanne

    New Growth

    Hi guys, not been on here for a while!! Thought I would share a picture of my tortoises new growth. You can see that since I have had him, his shell has been coming in much smoother. It's not perfect, but I like to think I must be doing something right! I also discovered a few weeks ago that...
  10. Joanne

    Cars

    Thinking I want one of these: I'm gonna look at this one on friday. What cars does everyone else like?
  11. Joanne

    Tortoise Sitter

  12. Joanne

    The way we were...

    heheheheheheheheh....
  13. Joanne

    Bigger Table

    Hi guys, we are building a new table for Shermann the Hermann... Thought you would like to see.... It is twice the size of his current table. The plan is use his current table for some quail I've just hatched... Then once they have gone in a couple of years, Shermann's...
  14. Joanne

    Incubating Quail Eggs - advice needed please!

    I've started incubating some eggs and the humidity needs to be 30-40% now my hygrometer (or whatever they are called) is saying 31% but does the condensation say otherwise? It's a digital thermometer/hygrometer it's the only one I have. Should I try and buy another? How are bird eggs...
  15. Joanne

    On My Own...

    I'd like to apologise in advance... I'm on my own in a horrible hotel for training for work... so I'm going to be commenting on lots of threads! Hope that's not a problem :-P
  16. Joanne

    Sore Head

    I was scratching Shermann's head earlier and thought he was shedding a bit, then he totally jumped away - which was strange. On closer inspection he has a small gouge in his head. I think he has done it on his ramp, so I have put some stones in the way to avoid it happening again. I'm...
  17. Joanne

    Drying Leaves for Winter

    Hi guys, thought I would just share my process of drying leaves for winter. I got my first tortoise in April, so have never done it before, but thought it may be useful to share ideas and such. So far, I have picked a few leaves today and put thread through them and hung them up to dry. I am...
  18. Joanne

    More Active After I've Been Away

    Hi guys, I went on holiday for a couple of weeks and my sister looked after the tort for me. He seems a lot more active, which is nice. My sister has rearranged his enclosure slightly and covered his basking slate with coir. He never went fully under the lamp before, could this be that...
  19. Joanne

    Definitely an outside day!

    Thing is when I put him outside, he tends to hide under the pile of dead grass I have for him. Is this because he doesn't feel safe?
  20. Joanne

    Activity Levels...

    Hi Guys, So I've noticed that Shermann is a lot 'quieter' than he was initially. He seems to sleep more and hide too. His appetite is good and he is regularly doing his peeps and poops. One thing that has changed is that I have been taking him to his outside enclosure. Could this be stressing...
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