dylanhighsmith
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So our 28 year old desert tortoise has been very restless at night lately. Pretty much all night long he does this intermittent wild neck stretching and head pumping thing. We've taken him to the vet for this type of behavior before (although that time he wasn't stretching his neck out as far - he was mainly just pumping his head into his shell all night) and they couldn't find anything wrong or abnormal. In the daytime he's completely normal and goes about his habits as if nothing is off. He's eating, drinking, roaming, pooing and peeing perfectly fine. It's only when he lies down to sleep that we catch this behavior. It's warmer lately, but not abnormally so in his hide (probably 70-77 at nights). We can take him to the vet again, but I'm worried they're not going to find anything yet again and we'll just stress him out with the trip. Has anyone else seen theirs do this?
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