Hi, This is my first winter for my tortoise. I inherited her Last January 2017.
My Uncle died in December. He lived in New York. In 1968, he was hunting in the Everglades while visiting my grandmother in Miami. He was driving and she was on the road. He brought her home and she has lived in Manhatten since 1968. Apparently, he never took her outside and she only ate carrots.
Last January, I kept her in a tortoise box with a heating pad.
I have got her eating everything. She LOVES baked sweet potato. She loves everything, Kale, strawberries, the things she should be eating.
She is outside now. She had dug a huge burrow under my patio. She loves it outside. I just can't believe she hadn't been out in 50 years. She definitely remembers how to be a tortoise outdoors. Anyways, she is in her burrow.
It's been very cold. We have the top enclosed and protected just in case it rains.
Here is my question. Should I take her, when she is out sunning, maybe later in the afternoon, and put her back in the tortoise box with the heater in it? I've been a little concerned. She seems fine, but I want to do the right thing.
My Uncle died in December. He lived in New York. In 1968, he was hunting in the Everglades while visiting my grandmother in Miami. He was driving and she was on the road. He brought her home and she has lived in Manhatten since 1968. Apparently, he never took her outside and she only ate carrots.
Last January, I kept her in a tortoise box with a heating pad.
I have got her eating everything. She LOVES baked sweet potato. She loves everything, Kale, strawberries, the things she should be eating.
She is outside now. She had dug a huge burrow under my patio. She loves it outside. I just can't believe she hadn't been out in 50 years. She definitely remembers how to be a tortoise outdoors. Anyways, she is in her burrow.
It's been very cold. We have the top enclosed and protected just in case it rains.
Here is my question. Should I take her, when she is out sunning, maybe later in the afternoon, and put her back in the tortoise box with the heater in it? I've been a little concerned. She seems fine, but I want to do the right thing.