Ohhhhhh wind down!!!

[Mrs Mental]

morning all


Apologies I've not been around - our internet/phoneline has been a little strange lately - we ended up with someone elses phone number for 5 days very confusing for us all!!!

Anyways here I am back with normal service resumed - well as normal as I get anyway How are you and all your little shelled friends then?
My little trio are giving me loads of guilt pangs at the moment Mr Harries is in his second week of frowning and grumpiness, sorry thats wind down to everyone else and little Theo & Mickey started theirs yesterday. I am now refusing to enter my bedroom whilst their lights are on as they make me feel far too guilty!!! Have you every tried bathing 3 tortoises without looking at them!!
Other than that nothing exciting to report really - a sad life I lead although I've been doing lots of baking lately yummmmm cakes, buns & muffins galore!!! So if you are bored pop round for a cuppa - am just gonna make a nice chocolate sponge and fill it with fresh cream lovely!!!

Hope you are all safe and surviving the miserable weather - we've had some trees down and our rivers getting higher and higher, which can be a little scary but we've not had to put up our flood gates yet thank goodness!!!

Must go bake a cake - catch you all later on - love to everyboyd xxx

[Mrs Mental]

Ohhhhh didn't bake my cake as my arm hurts too much!!! Have to make 2 at the week-end instead then eh!

Have just bathed the boys and plopped them back into their tables and they really arent happy - I so hate this bit, I really do - I always feel so bloody guilty not feeding the poor little chaps!!!

[mariekni]

awwwww bless i guess the little ones dont realise its for their own good! the weather really is awful just lately but i guess its just the winter rolling in! hope your arms dont hurt too much hun and i want some cake cant beat a home made cake mmmmmm yummy

[SteveinDevon]

Lol....Noddy and Matilda are now coming to the end of week 2 winding down in the greenhouse. Getting bathed every other day at the minute. They seem to spend most of their time basking under the ZooMed and they sure do look sad when they realise i havn't brought a big pile of dandelion leaves when i go in and say hello. Never realised their faces could be so expressive

Does me me feel really guilty though...

[SteveinDevon]

We are now approaching the end of week 3, i'm still feeling guilty over the plaintive looks i get when i pop in the greenhouse to see how they're doing. Quick question for the more experienced hibernators on here. Noddy is normally very regular with her "poos" which carried on every other day for the first week and a half but she hasnt had one for a week now. Presumably this is because she hasnt eaten anything for nearly three weeks? Matty has never been a regular "pooer" but she had one last friday so im not too worried. They have a warm bath every other day and still seem to be peeing, usually in the bath or just afterwards but im just slightly concerned about the "pooing" aspect

[purplepixie]

Pooing is not a problem once they have reached week three of windown. It means any poos to come shouldnt be from the stomach, they are in the intestines. They might even poo when in hibernation, this is not a problem, as I have said its from the intestines. Urination is if they do this in hibernation.

[Zoo-Man]

My 3 small Hermanns are in week 2 of wind down too. My 2 large Hermanns & my 2 Horsfields aren't hibernating this year as they are not up to weight.

And OI MRS M, I WANT CAKE!!! HURRY & GET SOME MADE!!! i PREFER CHOCOLATE CAKE, WITH BUTTER CREAM!!! WELL HURRY THEN!!!!
xx

[Grond]

Mine are winding down now!

I only hibernate from the week before christmas. Extra baths compensate for the lack of food!

I need cake now..........

[Mrs Mental]

you are both so demanding - if you think I am making cake at 3 o'clock in the morning you can both get stuffed Next time I make one I will post a pic for you to both drawl over if you like

[Grond]

Originally Posted by Mrs Mental

you are both so demanding - if you think I am making cake at 3 o'clock in the morning you can both get stuffed Next time I make one I will post a pic for you to both drawl over if you like

You can't get us all hungry for cake and then not come up with the goods.....temptress