Poop pickup tools

[Tom]

I'm about to buy a pooper scooper from an online retailer. Looks to be sturdier than what I've seen in the pet stores locally. The shovel will come next.

Currently they are eating the grass we have in the backyard, weeds, dandelions and dandelion leaves, grape leaves, hibiscus, escarole and tortoise pellets we soak for them. They don't like hay (yet). We have timothy hay and orchard hay, but neither will touch it.

Yard is 25% concrete, 75% grass, but they do prefer to walk around on the concrete. Didn't know that about their feet, so we'll keep our eyes open.

As far as housing them together....we had heard it wasn't a good idea, but so far, they are buddies. They sleep together at night in the same house right next to each other. During the day they mostly cruise separately around the yard, but they seem to enjoy following each other around and often fall asleep together, again, side by side. Hoping this continues....

Thank you for all of your information, it's appreciated.

Following each other and crowding (sleeping next to each other) is tortoise aggression. Its their way of "mad-dogging" each other to say, "Hey! Get out of my territory."

So if it continues, that is not a good thing.

 

[Bogie=babyDINO]

Makes sense. Why would a wild tortoise follow another wild tortoise?

 

[Speedy-1]

Ha Ha ! Why cant I get this idea of getting a front end loader out of my head ?