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  1. Zaffy

    New tortoise mum

    Whenever the opportunity, get tortoise outside in the real sun. Make sure there is somewhere for it to shelter. Man, no matter how hard he/she tries, cannot better nature.
  2. Zaffy

    Welcome home, Atlas!

    Fab photography
  3. Zaffy

    When all around is parched a green smorgasbord is just the thing.

    Dandelion leaves, broccoli, cucumber, rocket, and ice-plant.
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    On holiday

    Two weeks in Dorset. The sun and the rain on my shell and a good crop of dandelions. What more can a 70 year old Greek tortoise want?
  5. Zaffy

    A Bouquet of wildflowers for breakfast

    Lady's bedstraw, buttercup, knapweed, hawkweed, trefoil, and bindweed. Boris said thank you very much, but you can keep your bindweed YUCK!
  6. Zaffy

    Evening temperature

    Cindy, thank you for your insights and thoughts. These creatures are so alien to us that although we try our best, there is always doubt that we do the right thing. But surely, when we have owned theses creatures for decades, and they are in good health, we must be doing something right...
  7. Zaffy

    Evening temperature

    I will take Boris for a check up with a herpetologist. I meant to last year, when I noticed that Boris' nails on his front legs were wearing unevenly, and wondered if he is favouring one leg. But herpetologists are a rare breed. The only one I have come across when searching the web is in...
  8. Zaffy

    Evening temperature

    Boris is a Testudo Graeca Graeca. County of Buckinghamshire UK. Boris does not hibernate loose on the floor. He hibernates in a cardboard box with newspaper in the cold attic room and is checked almost daily, until he wakes up. So you agree with me and my main point of the post, which was...
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    Evening temperature

    PS My one line comment which says (Yep, Boris is nearly 70 years old and he is outside) was sent by mistake, I was trying to edit it and was deleting part of it and I must have pressed a wrong key and it got sent. It should have read (Yep, Boris is nearly 70 years old and he is indoors waiting...
  10. Zaffy

    Evening temperature

    Yep. Boris is nearly 70 years old and he is outside Tom, thank you for your interest. I think you might like to re-read my post. Boris hibernates but always wakes up before spring has really got going. Once a Boris wakes after hibernation, he cannot be ignored, his year has started, so he...
  11. Zaffy

    Evening temperature

    I inherited an elderly tortoise called Boris. I look after Boris in mostly the same way his owner did. Boris hibernates when he is ready and wakes up when he is ready, and in the latter case far too early for me, about January time. He then roams around the house doing his own thing waiting for...
  12. Zaffy

    My Greek in the uk

    Boris hibernates indoors in the coolest part of the house. I check on him often during hibernation. When he wakes up, I encourage him to eat straight away by keeping him warm and I give him warm baths. He stays indoors until the weather warms.
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    Which tortoise do I have?

    I would describe tortoise poo as similar to horse manure but of course the difference in quantity dispelled is vast.
  14. Zaffy

    Which tortoise do I have?

    I would say no oils or grease, purely because it would not happen in the wild. Get him outside. Think of him like a mini horse. He needs the sun and rain on his back. Artificial lighting is only secondary to the real thing. Get to know wild plants. Violets, hawkweed, hawk-bit, plantain...
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    Tortoise hates vitamin supplements

    Tortoises are wild animals, if possible, better to use nature than resort to vitamins. There will be some plants that they like. Offer them flowers. My tortoise loves flowers and petals, violets, rose petals, honeysuckle, the very softest parts of bears breeches, hawkweed, hawk-bit, knapweed...
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    My Greek in the uk

    I am a lot older than 7, sixty-years older in fact, and for the last few years I have looked after a tortoise. His name is Boris and he is about the same age as me. He belonged to my brother. My brother kept Boris in tip top condition by natural methods. At first I listened to and read...
  17. Zaffy

    I’m worried my tort is miserable and I cannot figure out why.

    I'm in the UK and have a Greek Tortoise so this maybe irrelevant to you. Last week my tortoise woke from hibernation. Very cold outside so he walked around my kitchen hardly eating, even though I waved all his fav food under his nose, and I put electric fires on and rigged up a special light...
  18. Zaffy

    Feeding a Tunisian Tortoise

    My tortoise is over 60 years old and I inherited from my brother. I live in Buckinghamshire and tortoise woke from hibernation a week ago, immediately, I offered thin slices of cucumber. The skin has fibre but more importantly, cucumber is mostly liquid. Plantains (not the vegetable) are tough...
  19. Zaffy

    escape artist

    Oh - bu**er.
  20. Zaffy

    escape artist

    Boris is hibernating at the moment. But when he is awake he spends his time trying to escape. If there is someone to watch him, he has free run for an hour or more most days of an enormous garden. I put him in a penned area for the rest of the time but I have had to make it bigger and bigger...
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