Since I also own a Desert Tortoise I will answer this. Hope you don't mind GRL. They are Endangered so they protected and you must have a permit to own one. I adopted Lucy from the Joshua Tree Tortoise Rescue while living in 29 Palms California, the ucky desert.Originally posted by Aspen and Misty
How come we never see pictures?? Where do you keep them? Are they fun? What made you deced to get them? What do you feed them?
Ash
Lucy has free roam of our house and is actually potty trained to Linoleum, and gets out time every day during the summer, and sleeps all winter long, hybernates. You can only let them hybernate if they have been fed super good, or doing so can kill them or lead to respiratory problems.
As far as feeding, he gets a bit of food. He HAS to have grass, so tons of grass, alfalfa, timothy and orchard grass, bananas, apples, squash, red and green leaf lettuce, butter lettuce, collard greens, pears, grapes, melons, some dog food as a treat, cactus and cactus apple, carrots, cucumbers and lots of other safe tortoise food.
She has posted several pics of the torts in Pet General already, when they were little and oh so cute.
Lucy is hybernating right now though and won't wake up for awhile.But here is a pic of him sleeping.
His name is Lucy, but he's really a boy.
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