Help for Poppy.

[egyptiandan64]

I'm glad Poppy's healing nicely . It could be because of the cooling temps or it could be that she's putting all her energy into healing the shell and doesn't have much left over for roaming around. It takes a lot of energy to heal a shell . So just keep her well fed and loaded with calcium and warm and she should be just fine.

Dan

[Jeremiah]

Thanks Dan,
She's chewing on her cuttlefish bone as we speak!

Louise

great news louise

glad poppy is doing so well linda

will she be hibernating this winter after her ordeal if not have you got a wintering place ready

[Jeremiah]

Hi Linda,
On Dan's advice and my Vet's advice I won't be hibernating her this year. I have a lovely tortoise table that she sleeps in at night and I will be housing her in that over the winter. We are moving in 8 weeks time so I'll be building a new outside enclousure for the spring-time, hopefully complete with a glass house etc. The garden is an acre so my hubby has said that I can have a substantial area for the torts. Its a new build house so the garden is nothing more than a muck bath at the moment so I have no choice but to keep her in a tortoise table while she's awake over the winter.
Jeremiah will wake up in the spring to a tortoise paradise
Louise