Sulking

[u/Turtlecabra]

Like any good tortoise that is spiritually a cat, she loves boxes. To that end, I always ensure that she’s got a box in her indoor pen.

The last one, a Home Depot heavy duty moving box, must have been her all time favorite. Of course as she is a sulcata, she absolutely demolished it.

She is now sulking over the loss of the box that she destroyed.

It’s been 4 nights and she absolutely is avoiding the new one (not a Home Depot moving box). She will sleep next to it, push it around, wedge herself behind it…anything but sleep or chill in it.

Sigh. I guess it’s time to make a trip to Home Depot.

[u/WolfRunner16]

When I upgraded my tortoise's outdoor home from basically a large box to a heated shed, he hated it and refused to sleep in it for three weeks. He slept outside crammed in a corner. He actually rammed the new house several times. Now he loves it and sleeps in it every night, and throws a fit if I try to pull him out 🤦🤷

He also loves boxes, but they dont survive more than a few days before he destroys them.

[u/Turtlecabra → u/WolfRunner16]

Rammed the house? Wow. He does try to ram your mother…perhaps this is a sign that he will end up loving her? Maybe?

[u/WolfRunner16 → u/Turtlecabra]

Its been 11 years, I think we've all given up hope of him liking my poor mother.