Yesterday afternoon, Nick and I went to the Allentown Art Festival in downtown Buffalo, NY for several hours. As always, the first thing we did when arriving home was check on our little tortoise. Poor girl was on her back, with her arms and legs kicking and flailing We flipped her back over and as soon as we did, she dug herself deep into the substrate for the rest of the night.
I came home from work today, only a short while ago, to find her in the exact same spot, upside down again! Only this time, her arms and legs weren't kicking and flailing like they were yesterday-- they were more still. I flipped her back over, and she hauled butt over to the other end of her enclosure, with a long string of poop hanging from her butt (really gives meaning to the word scared sh*tless)
We recently got her a half-log and put it in her enclosure. She loves it, she goes right in it at night. Within a few minutes of putting it in her enclosure several days ago, right in front of us, she did seem very curious to check it out and even climbed it...but when she got to the top, she did a walking/slide back down. She seemed to rather enjoy it, as she did it 10+ times, over and over, like a little kid going down the slide at the school playground. But she didn't flip over any of those times! So is it the log? Or is it something else?
On both occasions she was on her back, there's no way to tell if she was like that for only a few minutes...or several hours. Is she fine? Is there signs of something I should look for that would indicate she was injured? Should we remove the log-hide even though she seems to love it?
I came home from work today, only a short while ago, to find her in the exact same spot, upside down again! Only this time, her arms and legs weren't kicking and flailing like they were yesterday-- they were more still. I flipped her back over, and she hauled butt over to the other end of her enclosure, with a long string of poop hanging from her butt (really gives meaning to the word scared sh*tless)
We recently got her a half-log and put it in her enclosure. She loves it, she goes right in it at night. Within a few minutes of putting it in her enclosure several days ago, right in front of us, she did seem very curious to check it out and even climbed it...but when she got to the top, she did a walking/slide back down. She seemed to rather enjoy it, as she did it 10+ times, over and over, like a little kid going down the slide at the school playground. But she didn't flip over any of those times! So is it the log? Or is it something else?
On both occasions she was on her back, there's no way to tell if she was like that for only a few minutes...or several hours. Is she fine? Is there signs of something I should look for that would indicate she was injured? Should we remove the log-hide even though she seems to love it?