New look indoor accommodation

We've been making a few changes to Tiny Tortoise's indoor enclosure. It now looks like this:
and includes a specially built Humid Hide. As the name suggests, it's nice and damp and humid in there and she now likes to sleep in it:

Anyone who's interested can click here to see how we made it.

That was a surprise!

So at the weekend we took Tiny Tortoise to the tortoise drop-in at the Hampshire Tortoise Society. They have an amazing set-up there and some very knowledgeable people who can give your tortoise a health check. There were quite a few people there with tortoises of all shapes and sizes. When it was our turn the lady took a good look at Tiny Tortoise and said: "So, she's about three years old is she?". This was surprising for two reasons. Firstly, she's only two years old and secondly........we were under the impression she was a boy! They seemed pretty sure he is a girl.....sorry, she is a girl and the reason they thought she was three is that she's growing too quickly. So, poor Not-so-Tiny Tortoise is on a new strict regime involving more food and less artificial light!

Post-bath snack (video)

Following a bath, Tiny Tortoise enjoys a mallow leaf snack.

Viola!

Mum has just spent a small fortune on flowers and plants (such as Viola & Snap Dragon) to feed to Tiny Tortoise. Even though he still likes Creeping Bell Flower, he ate about a tonne of Snap Dragon. In the picture you can see Tiny Tortoise taking his first tentative nibble of a Viola flower.

Exciting tortoise video #1

As I'm writing this post, Tiny tortoise is slowly making his way through his weekly HUGE pile of pellets. He started this feast after an ungainly head dive into his bowl.

It was very amusing!

As Tiny tortoise bravely treks across the garden (under mum's close gaze and protection!) he finds a new best pal ,Mr G the cat, so being the tortoise he is, he went straight over and stuck his nose into Mr G's leg. The disgruntled cat then sniffed tiny tortoise:

And didn't want him to go away!