LilFeets
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Our sulcata tortoise is male, I'm estimating about 40lbs and 17 years old.
He has pyramiding and a dent/crack in his shell (it looks like a crack but it solid shell under it) from a winter of basically no moisture. He lives in New England, and is owned by my family. They don't know what to do or how to take care of him in winters. He got passed around through a divorce. He's been neglected during the cold months. In the spring and summer he lives outside in a enclosed area with a dog house unless it gets below 60 at night then he goes in and once it gets too cold stays inside in a large area. (It's like a wooden box but the bottom is tile and we put substrate on it.)
Last winter I was living with my family and I helped him stay healthy through the winter. I did 2x weekly soaking baths, and gave him lots of grass to eat, some cuttlebone, cleaned his cage, had heaters on timers. It was still too dry and cold, but I did the best I could. It really showed though because this year he didn't spend the spring trying to recuperate. His personality came out more and he sprints around the yard when we'd let him out of his outdoor enclosure for grazing and walks. His diet is mostly grass as we don't use anything chemical on our yard. We could never get him to eat dry grass, and he gets treats of produce veggies and occasionally some tortoise food from the store.
I just moved down south and now he has no one to take care of him in the winter. I can still lift him, but he's soon gonna grow out of that. I was just reading in another thread about how rescues aren't really rescues and the ones we reached out to never responded anyway. I know they often get rehomed and I'll be the first to admit we had no idea what we were doing with him for a long time. I really want him to have a good home. I'll hop on mobile and post pictures of him. I don't know how to start the process of finding a home for him. I live in an apartment and there's no way I can take him and he can't get the care he needs from the family members he lives with. He was never actually mine to start with. They're willing to let him go for a good home, because we all love him and he's so sweet, but wow he deserves so much better.
He has pyramiding and a dent/crack in his shell (it looks like a crack but it solid shell under it) from a winter of basically no moisture. He lives in New England, and is owned by my family. They don't know what to do or how to take care of him in winters. He got passed around through a divorce. He's been neglected during the cold months. In the spring and summer he lives outside in a enclosed area with a dog house unless it gets below 60 at night then he goes in and once it gets too cold stays inside in a large area. (It's like a wooden box but the bottom is tile and we put substrate on it.)
Last winter I was living with my family and I helped him stay healthy through the winter. I did 2x weekly soaking baths, and gave him lots of grass to eat, some cuttlebone, cleaned his cage, had heaters on timers. It was still too dry and cold, but I did the best I could. It really showed though because this year he didn't spend the spring trying to recuperate. His personality came out more and he sprints around the yard when we'd let him out of his outdoor enclosure for grazing and walks. His diet is mostly grass as we don't use anything chemical on our yard. We could never get him to eat dry grass, and he gets treats of produce veggies and occasionally some tortoise food from the store.
I just moved down south and now he has no one to take care of him in the winter. I can still lift him, but he's soon gonna grow out of that. I was just reading in another thread about how rescues aren't really rescues and the ones we reached out to never responded anyway. I know they often get rehomed and I'll be the first to admit we had no idea what we were doing with him for a long time. I really want him to have a good home. I'll hop on mobile and post pictures of him. I don't know how to start the process of finding a home for him. I live in an apartment and there's no way I can take him and he can't get the care he needs from the family members he lives with. He was never actually mine to start with. They're willing to let him go for a good home, because we all love him and he's so sweet, but wow he deserves so much better.
