ReikiMasterKate
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Hello fellow tort lovers! We are fortunate enough to have a summer home on 2 and 1/2 acres in Green Valley (LA county/Santa Clarita, CA) and we are getting ready to move there for the reminder of the summer before it gets up into the 120s in Scottsdale, AZ. Ha!
Anyway, we have an 85 pound African Sulcata who we adopted from Phx Herpetological Society in mid-March. He is doing great, has dug one substantial burrow in our yard, and he seems totally happy with his environment.
We now need to decide whether it would be best to pay a caregiver for the month and 1/2 to two months we will be gone or to bring him with us to our summer home. Of course my kids and I would rather have him there with us. He would have lots and lots of natural grass in the yard to feed on ... We are just concerned the travel may be traumatic for him, and since he already has his established burrow at the Scottsdale home, I don’t know whether it may be discouraging to him to have to start fresh again in a new environment being that we only just got him a few short months ago.
As far as transporting him goes, we do have a 40 foot motor home he could ride there in with us, or I understand FedEx does reptile shipping. Does anyone have any experience with that process and know whether that is traumatic for the pets? Are they sedated first? Is that only for lighter reptiles?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
In Light,
Kate
Anyway, we have an 85 pound African Sulcata who we adopted from Phx Herpetological Society in mid-March. He is doing great, has dug one substantial burrow in our yard, and he seems totally happy with his environment.
We now need to decide whether it would be best to pay a caregiver for the month and 1/2 to two months we will be gone or to bring him with us to our summer home. Of course my kids and I would rather have him there with us. He would have lots and lots of natural grass in the yard to feed on ... We are just concerned the travel may be traumatic for him, and since he already has his established burrow at the Scottsdale home, I don’t know whether it may be discouraging to him to have to start fresh again in a new environment being that we only just got him a few short months ago.
As far as transporting him goes, we do have a 40 foot motor home he could ride there in with us, or I understand FedEx does reptile shipping. Does anyone have any experience with that process and know whether that is traumatic for the pets? Are they sedated first? Is that only for lighter reptiles?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
In Light,
Kate
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