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Hello everyone;
has there ever been a study about tortoise happiness?
Our leopard tortoise, Olivia, Has been walking her pen constantly for the past 2 weeks. I have seen her walk around at times but never like this. she has been doing it for hours each day. We have never seen her this active before. She is just walking along the wall. some times quickly and most of the time slowly. Today we keep looking at her and we have not seen her still one time for the past 6 hours. She is probably taking a brake when we are not looking but usually when you look at her she is just sitting in one spot. Lately she is always on the move.
These are Olivia's living conditions:
Her home is over 1000 square feet in area. Its like a long block letter U about 14 feet wide and maybe 100 feet long.
She has a igloo tortoise (Dog) house that she seems to be fond of and has used for 6 years now.
Her property is full of saint augustine grass and weeds plus hibiscus flowers that fall from 5 bushes we planted just for her. And my wife gives her kale salads at least twice per week. so food or food variety shouldn't be the problem.
She also has a water bowl big enough to crawl into and it gets cleaned regularly.
So is she all of a sudden very un happy? Can a tortoise walk too much? Like is this similar to a couch potato all of a sudden trying to run a marathon and having a heart attack?
What is all the walking for and does she know she is just covering the same ground the whole time or does she think she is getting some place? I would hate to think she is so unhappy she would want to walk to death like some mysterious whale beaching. (we are not actually certain Olivia is a she)
has there ever been a study about tortoise happiness?
Our leopard tortoise, Olivia, Has been walking her pen constantly for the past 2 weeks. I have seen her walk around at times but never like this. she has been doing it for hours each day. We have never seen her this active before. She is just walking along the wall. some times quickly and most of the time slowly. Today we keep looking at her and we have not seen her still one time for the past 6 hours. She is probably taking a brake when we are not looking but usually when you look at her she is just sitting in one spot. Lately she is always on the move.
These are Olivia's living conditions:
Her home is over 1000 square feet in area. Its like a long block letter U about 14 feet wide and maybe 100 feet long.
She has a igloo tortoise (Dog) house that she seems to be fond of and has used for 6 years now.
Her property is full of saint augustine grass and weeds plus hibiscus flowers that fall from 5 bushes we planted just for her. And my wife gives her kale salads at least twice per week. so food or food variety shouldn't be the problem.
She also has a water bowl big enough to crawl into and it gets cleaned regularly.
So is she all of a sudden very un happy? Can a tortoise walk too much? Like is this similar to a couch potato all of a sudden trying to run a marathon and having a heart attack?
What is all the walking for and does she know she is just covering the same ground the whole time or does she think she is getting some place? I would hate to think she is so unhappy she would want to walk to death like some mysterious whale beaching. (we are not actually certain Olivia is a she)