If you are travelling from one country to another with your tortoise there are likely to be certain procedures and rules that you must adhere to in order to do so legally. The greatest...

Deliberately releasing a captive bred, captive kept tortoise into the wild is almost universally a bad idea for several reasons: Unless the tortoise is native to the part of the world you...

Small, big, or biggest? If you’re thinking of buying a tortoise you might make assume it is better to buy the youngest tortoise possible, probably because it seems likely that the...

Backyards offer lots of potential hibernation areas Putting your tortoise into hibernation can be a nerve racking process. I myself have suffered tragedy in this area, when my first pet...

Remote monitoring of just about anything is big business these days. Whether you use a ‘Ringo’ type doorbell camera or have an audio visual baby monitor, our increasingly connected world...