New Book Helps Keep Tortoises Happy

Interpet Publishing has launched a new book titled Keeping A Pet Tortoise, by specialist authors Andrew and Nadine Highfield. Although tortoises have been popular pets for many years, they have never been easy pets to look after. All reptiles have very precise environmental and dietary requirements and tortoises are no exception. The new book is ideal for all tortoise enthusiasts providing comprehensive accessible information. Keeping A Pet Tortoise explains how to set up home for a new tortoise and keep it in the best of health. The book covers the well-known Mediterranean species as well as more exotic tropical tortoises. It provides essential information on all aspects of tortoise ownership from buying a pet to everyday well-being, housing set-ups, hibernation advice, breeding and hatchling care. Keeping A Pet Tortoise is the perfect starter book, it is written by experts with up-to-date easy to follow information and 130 colour photographs. The illustrations in this book are particularly impressive including amazing photos of an infant tortoise breaking out of its shell. Another interesting image is an X-ray of a female tortoise about to lay a cluster of eggs. Descriptive and diagrams are also used in some cases to help readers fully understand the content.  Keeping A Pet Tortoise is hard backed with 64 pages measuring 210mm x 148mm. The book has a recommended retail price of just £5.99 and is in the same series as Interpet’s top selling book Keeping Pet Chickens, by Johannes Paul and William Windham. Both books concentrate on the key facts with essential ‘must-know’ advice. Text is written in a direct easy-to-follow style, free of jargon. The new Keeping A Pet Tortoise book includes essential information on protection of the species in the wild, export bans and buying with confidence from a reputable source. Authors Andy and Nadine Highfield have kept tortoises and turtles for almost 30 years. Andy Highfield has published several books on keeping and breeding tortoises and written numerous scientific papers. He has also contributed to most of the major reptile-keeping magazines both as author and photographer and lectures all over the world on tortoise conservation and captive management. Nadine Highfield was raised around turtles in New Jersey and Rhode Island and this led to her developing a lifelong interest in their conservation, rescue and rehabilitation. Andy and Nadine founded the Tortoise Trust in 1984.  Keeping A Pet Tortoise is available through specialist book suppliers along with many other titles on pet-related subjects from the same publisher. Call 01306 873814 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for further information.