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So, during a rainstorm today i brought kashi in today. She found the catfood, dry, and went crazy. I had to remove it, along with everything else and get her concentrated on cactus and mazuri.

Her best friend, Jack the cat, decided he loved mazuri as well, and ate about 15 pellets, while kashi just stared at him, then shared the fun.

Here is a pic of her going around.

i'd love to let my torts run the house but how do you deal with the fecal matter? the last thing i need is to scrub the carpet after one of my torts decide to go.
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She is outside 95% of the time, only during rainstorms do i bring her in...AND SHE DOESNT POOP IN THE HOUSE! Go figure....she did once, but it was because there were tornados for 3 days, so she was inside for 4 days. And she went on the 2nd day, and then held it till i put her outside, and flushed herself empty....who knows about this one...
hunter

My sulcata always goes the second I bring him in. He hates it.

T.G.

LOL we've only had ours in the house once & that was the first year we had her. She only weighed 14 lbs then.
We had to bring her inside because it was the first time we had winter weather since we'd adopted her.
Although we already had the pig blanket installed in there it wasn't heating her home enough.
We put her in the spare bathroom that had no carpet so that her poop wouldn't ruin anything but she was VERY unhappy in there. We were all happy when she got to go outside the next day. That was when we bought a ceramic heat emitter. The CHE combined with the pig blanket finally got her home's temps where we needed them.
Fun with big shelly animals LOL!!
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PHRatz

when my redfoot was a tiny baby, he was almost guaranteed to have an accident any time he was out and about. since he's older, though, and presumably less nervous, he very seldom has any... EXCEPT for what i call his "peepee naps!" sometimes he'll crawl into a corner and take a nap, and once he wakes up or i come get him, it almost never fails... he's in a puddle...

(good thing the room i let him roam in is linoleum! )

Not my idea. Not my tort. But may have the solution. This is a photo I saved from another site.

www.teixeira.us/turtle.htm

Tom

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