Share something responsible you have done for your pet today.
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How can you practice being a responsible pet owner?
Researching animal care tips, check and feed animal everyday, providing animal with all it's needs.
Box tortoise love to be pet and held.
Box tortoises can be sensitive to stress, and generally don't enjoy being held too much.
True or false. Ornate tortoises are only found in Arizona.
False, Box Tortoises are in many states such as Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, and South Dakota.
Box tortoises can eat small mice
True! Box tortoises are omnivores and can eat plants and meat.
The age of ornate box turtles has been estimated by counting growth rings for many years
True, you can estimate how old an tortoise is using the rings on the outside of shell, though it may not be the most reliable.
True or False Ornate Tortoises need heat to live.
True! since reptiles are cold blooded, tortoises will need heat to survive.
True or false, Ornate Tortoises are becoming extinct.
False! though tortoise numbers are declining due to habitat destruction, climate change, and humans collecting.
give an example of not being a responsible pet owner.
Not feeding pet, letting other care for your pet for you. Not giving pets baths when they need.....Ect
Whats one way to know if your tortoise has shell rot?
Stinky shell or dry cracked shell.
Box Tortoises hate humidity.
False! Ornate box turtles like a humidity level of around 40% to 50%