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I went into work yesterday and saw these. Cute and the money they raise is for a good cause but it kind of makes me sad because I figure at least half of them won't make it when they leave this pool.
IIRC..a desert tortoise can live well over 100 years and it's illegal to remove them from Arizona. I wonder how many of them will see their way out of here?
'Cause who doesn't need a pet that will outlive them?
These and parrots have to be in your will.
How many did you buy for the little man?
I'm buying one for Emma to have a playmate. Maybe pick up one for Brian too.
Quote from: IZ on August 25, 2011, 04:57:41 PM
I'm buying one for Emma to have a playmate. Maybe pick up one for Brian too.
i just read they aren't good pets for little kids...
the one's that can't keep their hands outta their mouths
salmonella
Quote from: TiNi on August 25, 2011, 05:09:30 PM
i just read they aren't good pets for little kids...
the one's that can't keep their hands outta their mouths
salmonella
That's why you gotta make sure you cook 'em to at least 180 deg F. 8)
Cook for how long? They would make perfect sliders.
I had a tortoise as a kid... The damn things are stinky, disgusting, vile creatures. But they can dig one helluva hole!
The school that is selling them has a tortoise in the atrium. Yeah, they can dig! I usually watch it at lunch. It must weigh about 400lbs.
we have a brackish tidal pond over by the bay and it is home to some of the most evil prehistoric looking snapping turtles I have ever seen
not sure about these things as pets....kind of like paperweights that keep moving around
Quote from: RAT900 on August 26, 2011, 01:11:26 AM
we have a brackish tidal pond over by the bay and it is home to some of the most evil prehistoric looking snapping turtles I have ever seen
not sure about these things as pets....kind of like paperweights that keep moving around
We have a red slider that lives in the greenhouse. Nice friendly little creature with a surprisingly strong personality. But she has been a pet all her life, don't know if I'd want to try and tame one. Got her a male friend earlier this spring, but he disappeared. How you disappear in a 10 by 20 concrete foundation greenhouse is beyond me. I suspect the relationship did not take and he managed to burrow out of there.
I remember seeing a tortoise in the Griffith Park Zoo in L.A. when I was a kid. It was in the corner of his glass terrarium, trying to walk through the glass. Over time he'd worn an indentation in the glass wall with the tip of his nose. I really wanted to break the glass and turn him loose.
They relocate tortoises in Nevada from places that are being developed but I think the adoption process is not trivial. You have to demonstrate that you have a proper habitat.
I like the tortoise in the beginning and end of the "The Monkey Wrench Gang."
Quote from: Langanobob on August 26, 2011, 05:18:24 AM
They relocate tortoises in Nevada from places that are being developed but I think the adoption process is not trivial. You have to demonstrate that you have a proper habitat.
I like the tortoise in the beginning and end of the "The Monkey Wrench Gang."
There's a process here in AZ when adopting.
http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/captive_tortoise_care.shtml (http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/captive_tortoise_care.shtml)
It would be fun to have one roaming around the yard if I wasn't in a rental. An old neighbor here in AZ studied turtles and had a couple hundred in her house, backyard and garage. Yeah, they stink! I found a battered turtle in the road once, took it to her and she nursed it back to health. Never knew there were that many different types of turtles until she educated me on them that day.
I have owned 2 tortoises. Fabtastic pets but you do have to maintain them or they do become stinky.
One I found in the middle of the road in Kansas and after moving him to the side of the road decided to break about 589304794 laws and took him home to Iowa. The other was purchased as a mate for this guy.
In the end, I donated them both to the local zoo and they are happy and healthy today. Nice thing about donating something to the Zoo that they don't already have...they usually reward you pretty well (I have a lifetime of free admission).
We had a tortoise when I was a kid. Cant remember how he came to live with us, but he ran so fast we named him Jackie, after Jackie Stewart. He would chase our German Shepherd around the yard...dog was totally freaked out by the rock with legs. Eventually, he dug himself out of the yard and ran away.