I'm not in Ohio, but still a very C..C...Cooold climate. There are quite a few really awesome members from your neck of the woods. There is a thread I'm following from a Ohio member named @lismar79. She is making an entire room tortoise safe to overwinter her young sulcata. http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/sulcatas-new-room-in-the-basement.128118/ I'm working on a similar project, because there have been a lot of deaths on the forum from tortoises wandering around the house. (I read a heartbreaking one where a tortoise had it's head squished in a door! ) anyway, what Lisa is doing is awesome and will help solve the problem. A member named Tom has also made several threads on his "Nightbox" designs that are definitely worth looking at.looks excellent, like a larger version of my Frank. where at in Ohio? do you bring him in at night now that temps are dropping? i had a temporary heated enclosure for mine while i was on vacation last week and he seemed to do fine. but im gonna start on a nice insulated house this weekend but ive still been leaving him outside to graze while im at work. he has a heated box in my kitchen that he retreats to every night and comes out for a snack occasionally
ba ha haha!!! I'm sure he does!!!Yes and he knows it.........most adorable ***#ole!!
I love to hear about the really sociable tortoises I just melt over that stuff. I've created entire threads on the subject and asked members to post photos etc. Wow...Godfrey is in his 20's! That is sooo cool! How long have you had him?Now that the weather has changed, he is inside. We sort of have a 3 house plan for him. Summer in the fenced in yard, intermediate is a huge (for a great dane kennel) with heating lamps-indoors, and finally an indoor winter house (we are building) that is in a spare room. The reason for the intermediate is because of me. I have MS and can't really lift him. So it's close to the door if it's warm enough for him to go out.
Ha ha! He sounds like such a character. You're making quite the Mamma's boy out of him You gotta get in those sixty degree temps while they last...sigh. I'm glad Godfrey has discovered the joys of pumpkin season. We're about to carve ours up tomorrow, so my Mavis is in for a treat as well.awww thank you and what a pretty girl! We had Godfrey out today although it was only a bit above 60. He likes to walk through the leaf piles, completely buries himself, then pops his head out like we didn't know he was there! Discovered also that he loves, (he loves everything) but really loves pumpkin. My step daughter (who is 14) was outside carving a pumpkin, and pulling out the guts, well he about knocked her off her chair, could not figure it out for a minute, then he tried to eat the whole pumpkin (hahahaa), so we fed him some of the inerds and he would stretch his neck out and gobble.
He can be a bit of a pain with the grass eating. He will go around the yard and eat grass with my husband, but (and i kid you not), I will go around and gather up the good stuff (dandelions, clover, etc) and make a pile for him. He wont eat it. He will sit there and wait for me to hand feed him, or take a walk about and keep coming to the pile, waiting Until I give in. My husband says when i am not around that he goes into the yard and chows down on his own.
I think they are both scamming me.
I haven't tried freezing pumpkin yet, but I think it sounds like a great experiment!I was thinking about vacuum sealing some pumpkin and freezing it for a treat later on. I don't think Godfrey would mind, and since squash and pumpkin are so cheap right now.... Was wondering if anyone else has tried/or does that?