JohnnyB65
Well-Known Member
It’s been really hot here for a while, in the triple digits and everything is just so, so dry. I know that it is cooler down inside, but I looked down the entrance to my desert tortoise’s underground burrow and its pretty much all fine dust. Anyway I want to spray water down the tunnel into the burrow while he’s out in the lawn and I’m pretty sure that as long as I don’t spray it down too much, the dry soil will absorb the water pretty quickly, but I just want to be sure its OK beforehand.
I used to have a squash garden above his burrow and one year the sprinkler system broke soaking his burrow. He came out soaking wet and I was afraid that he might end up with respiratory problems or something. Everything dried up by the end of the day and he was alright.
So is there a limit on how wet things can get before there is a problem? I just can’t imagine that breathing all that fine dust is too good for him.
Oh before someone asks, he is a CA Desert Tortoise.
I used to have a squash garden above his burrow and one year the sprinkler system broke soaking his burrow. He came out soaking wet and I was afraid that he might end up with respiratory problems or something. Everything dried up by the end of the day and he was alright.
So is there a limit on how wet things can get before there is a problem? I just can’t imagine that breathing all that fine dust is too good for him.
Oh before someone asks, he is a CA Desert Tortoise.