Posts by Alex

Your tortoise getting injured probably isn’t something you want to think about very much, and why would you? It’s not nice to think that our shelled friends might ever come to any...

If you’re a tortoise lover there’s a good chance you’re a lover of other animals as well. If so you might be wondering if your tortoise can happily interact with your other pets, making you...

I’ve got to be a little bit careful discussing what the ‘easiest’ breeds of tortoise to look after are, for the simple reason that there isn’t really one. All tortoises require a significant...

I don’t know about you, but before I owned a tortoise I didn’t think of them as the sort of animals that dug holes. To me they seemed too heavy and lumbering to do that, burrowing to me seemed...

Unless you subscribe to a fairly radical approach to caring for hatchling and juvenile tortoises then you’ll probably agree that keeping them indoors in a properly set up tortoise table or vivarium...

Being the weird and wonderful animals they are unfortunately makes tortoises a target for thieves, especially older and larger specimens, given their significant monetary value. It is important to...