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Old 22-01-2017, 03:36 PM   #21
sandy
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Originally Posted by t.doyle View Post
He's having plenty of baths. He's not eaten anything since he came back from the vets (5 days now). However he has passed a lot of poo. All of the poo has a gritty consistency. Today a whopper came out that contained several large pieces of the white grit found within tortoise life.... He seems to be moving more and more now. I just wish he would eat something!!
Five days is nothing for a tortoise to go without food:0)
They can go weeks without it, but need the hyrdration.
Its our human thinking that we need to eat every day that gets in the way of thinking tortoise:0)
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