Having given in on requests of the child to get a pet, parents decide to buy him an overland turtle. They consider that the animal small, silent, imperceptible, eats a little, it is not necessary to walk and will not bring any discomfort to owners. Whether so it?
Turtles are very interesting animals. At the correct leaving they live long, pleasing owners. Of course, it is more interesting to watch them not in a terrarium. If there are no drafts, then they can live also in the apartment on a floor. Pretty fast study the place of the dwelling and establish for themselves a daily routine. Eat in one place, sunbathe in the sun - in another and perfectly know in what time in what room there will be the sun, sleep in the third - the warmest. Owners are especially not recognized, but also are not afraid.
When they are frightened, they hide the head and paws under an armor, at the same time make the hissing sound. Especially interesting to watch them when they walk on the apartment. Go as ballerinas, lifting an armor above the ground. During walking, clink claws on a floor covering, occasionally with knock lowering an armor on a floor to look round. On the road the animal can fall asleep, and in the dark it easily can be not noticed and bounced forward. Can get into a corner and long in it try to bury. This action is followed by the loud, monotonous, scraping sounds. Wall-paper will be torn. Have to walk on the apartment under supervision, otherwise quite can get stuck and die somewhere.
At contents in a terrarium, of course, habits of an animal are not so pronounced, but there it is possible to create all necessary conditions. The terrarium optional has to be deep. It is possible to equip it so that it will be the real decoration of the room. Instead of a terrarium it is possible to make something like the shelter on a floor. On a bottom to put sawdust or a coconut mulch. Surely there has to be an UF-lamp for reptiles and an infrared lamp. It is desirable that in a terrarium there were zones: warm and cold. The animal itself defines that it is necessary for it at present and buries in warm or cold soil, or goes to sunbathe under a lamp. For a turtle the lodge is necessary. In the nature they dig holes, they need the place for a dream. In house conditions they not always fall into hibernation, and in the nature can oversleep easily from the middle of summer when there comes the heat, and till spring.
In the nature the overland turtles eat a grass, sometimes not really juicy in a drought. In house conditions it is necessary to remember and understand about it that their digestive device is not adapted for too damp forages. Little turtles are fed daily, big - time in two-three days. Food which was not eaten is removed from a terrarium. Feed most often with a grass, dandelions occasionally give leaves of lettuce, a cucumber, pumpkin. Once a week the animal is bathed, then she drinks. In conditions when the stern becomes a little, the turtle can fall into hibernation.
Turtles can be walked, but it is easy to lose. In the sun they very active also move very quickly. Therefore on the street it is necessary to watch closely them very much.
Keeping of turtles quite not burdensome, though demands some, enough regular investments. It is necessary to be ready to them. To watch animals very interestingly.