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    Question For Those Using Tom's Night Box

    I live in North Dakota. Because my climate sucks for most reptiles, I sent my pair of YF torts to Hawaii last July. They are living the Dream. However, they overwintered for 15 years in a room in my home. They had a Menards black powder coated steel 5 x 5 covered dog kennel in the center of the...
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    Need shipping advice

    Yes. Quarantine (in Hawaii) is for mammals (rabies). Inspection (in Hawaii) is for reptiles (parasites and contagion). Most people will never need this information, but if anyone does, Will’s instructions are solid gold.
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    Need shipping advice

    I would like to add that I followed Will’s advice, and I successfully shipped my tortoises (17 and 23 lbs) to Hawaii this week. They were in the boxes 45 hours, and they are fine. Kudos to Kapidolo farms for being willing to advise me on a difficult issue somewhat fraught with uncertainty and...
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    Need shipping advice

    This is nowhere in the IATA instructions that Delta sent me, for reptiles anyway. It's a lot easier for me than making a wooden crate. Did you use hay as the substrate? I don't want to use anything that will spew out and get them rejected at the gate. Thanks.
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    Need shipping advice

    I reread your post. I will also call United.
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    Need shipping advice

    Do you mean the plastic crate with the metal door, or the plastic crate with the hinges on the back where the top shuts over the bottom? Thanks.
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    Need shipping advice

    I have also had a dog ship story in the past, and it is adding to my angst. I tried to ship my Boston quick flight to Omaha from Bismarck, and they wouldn't accept her because she had to "lower her head when she walked into her kennel." It was the kennel she slept in at night, she could stand up...
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    Need shipping advice

    Unfortunately, this sounds like the best way to handle it. Delta does not allow anyone to pick up the tortoises and keep them for the overnight-once they are booked through, they remain in Delta custody. How do you feel about another airline? Anyone else use United or whatever? Also, when you...
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    Need shipping advice

    This is part of the thing that terrifies me. Delta doesn't seem to have the answers. The people on the phone are doing their job, but I think they are in a call center and have never seen a live animal carrier go through a gate onto a plane. Also, Delta no longer allows live animals to go DASH. :-(
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    Need shipping advice

    After 22 years, I have found a great new home for my wild-caught Yellowfoot pair. Unfortunately, I live in North Dakota, and their new home is in the Hawaiian Islands. I have the permits, and the CVI exam is pending, and blah blah blah. Here is why I am sweating bullets: I started with fed ex...
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    Help with shopping list please

    This is for my Yellow Foots, but I do have a small colony of box turtles. I will check out the website! Thanks.
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    Help with shopping list please

    I am doing some shopping to improve my turtle pen. I am a woman, and I have plug-ins (please no wiring) and I have water access in the room. I have Menards, Home Depot, Target, Walmart, Mac's hardware, Ace Hardware, Home of Economy, Tractor Supply, 3 pet stores, and of course Amazon and the...
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    New Tortiouse encloser

    Many years ago, I bought two "poop boxes" for small dogs at Petco. They are designed for mini and teacup breeds of dogs to urinate and defecate in, in the house. I took them around to Best Buy, Sears, etc. and found a dishwasher that was big enough to wash one of these at a time, and I had it...
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    Shells in Distress

    Those ladybugs were hibernating in the leaves I used as substrate this year. :-) They do cheer the place up!
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    Shells in Distress

    This is overwhelmingly good news. I have been sick over this and worried Melba and Mabry would die of this mystery illness, even though their habits have not changed. Yes, Mabry was full grown and Melba was about 75 % grown when they came to me. She came first and he came later, and I suspect...
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    Shells in Distress

    Hello, Thanks for the reply. How ironic I could be slathering them with silvadene and then putting them in their pen heated with clamp lamps. The damage was done before they came in from outside I think? I must ask...are you referring to all the lesions looking like burns, or mostly the one on...
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    Shells in Distress

    Hello. Perusing the forum feels like I have found the most valuable resource imaginable. I’m so grateful to be on here. Right now, I have an extreme situation, and I’ve decided it will be faster to post instead of continuing to search. My yellow foots are wild caught and have been with me 22...
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