Lynsparkle
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Hello all, glad to have found this site and hoping it will give me many, many tips in looking after my daughters tortoise.
We lived in ashford, kent, uk and have had our tortoise since Christmas 2012 and she was 6 months old when we got her. Not knowing anything about tortoises, we bought a complete starter kit. This was my daughters Christmas present, she was 18, so old enough to know her mind. She named him Mr. Chompers, usually called Chompy. We have learned a few things over last 18 months, but I worry terribly that he's not getting everything he should.
I can't grow food from seeds no matter how hard I try so he is usually fed shop bought mixed salady type leaves. We do give extra calcium etc from a reptile/tortoise supplement on his food. He will not eat dried food (stubborn little thing) . Last year we hibernated him fir 3 weeks, and this year he will be hibernated for 6. I will worm him in November and hibernate him in January ( get the gist of who's tortoise this is and who cares for it ).
He is a Mediterranean tortoise. We do have an enclosure in our garden that we put him out in the summer, but we have 3 dogs and they have already picked him up twice to take and play with, luckily with no harm to him .
So he is now watched when in garden.
I keep saying he, but I think he may be a she.
Hopefully this forum will give me lots of answers to my questions
We lived in ashford, kent, uk and have had our tortoise since Christmas 2012 and she was 6 months old when we got her. Not knowing anything about tortoises, we bought a complete starter kit. This was my daughters Christmas present, she was 18, so old enough to know her mind. She named him Mr. Chompers, usually called Chompy. We have learned a few things over last 18 months, but I worry terribly that he's not getting everything he should.
I can't grow food from seeds no matter how hard I try so he is usually fed shop bought mixed salady type leaves. We do give extra calcium etc from a reptile/tortoise supplement on his food. He will not eat dried food (stubborn little thing) . Last year we hibernated him fir 3 weeks, and this year he will be hibernated for 6. I will worm him in November and hibernate him in January ( get the gist of who's tortoise this is and who cares for it ).
He is a Mediterranean tortoise. We do have an enclosure in our garden that we put him out in the summer, but we have 3 dogs and they have already picked him up twice to take and play with, luckily with no harm to him .
So he is now watched when in garden.
I keep saying he, but I think he may be a she.
Hopefully this forum will give me lots of answers to my questions