Feylin, it sounds as if you and Lois have such a special relationship. Your stories made me smile and lifted my heart when I read them. I am happy to welcome you and Lois to the forum. I think you will be a great asset.
Yvonne, I am so, so sorry to hear bout Mi-Shell. My thoughts and prayers are with you and her.
Well, the administration is worried (paranoid) about samonella harming the students and I"M worried about the students harming Lois (they're 17 after all). So I dont know that it is a good idea in all situations.
I have strict rules about hand washing and my admisitration is content with that.
Welcome to another long time Redfoot lover from another lond term Redfoot lover (33 year).
Feylin Wrote:Well, the administration is worried (paranoid) about samonella harming the students and I"M worried about the students harming Lois (they're 17 after all). So I dont know that it is a good idea in all situations.
I have strict rules about hand washing and my admisitration is content with that.
When I used to take turtles/tortoises to schools for education purposes I always brought a roll of paper towells and several bottles of hand sanitizer. You can usually buy the hand sanitizer pretty cheaply (in a pump bottle, too) at the dollar store. Then before anyone handles or touches a turtle, they sanitize, and after each touch they sanitize. The teachers were usually ok with that system.
Yvonne
ohh, 33 years! Lois and I look like babies in comparison. Well, teenagers more like.
The hand sanitizer doesn't cut it around here. Lois is basicaly free range in my classroom and its impossible to sanitize everything. So I just have students trained to wash their hands on entering and leaving (it's a science classroom so we have 6 sinks). It's something we establish at the begining of the year with the other rules. So far every one (including Lois) is just fine.
Unfortunately I lost them in a housefire about a year ago but they have been replaced by 6 little hatchlings and 2 "rescues". So you now have the seniors. You say you got yours from the Toledo Zoo, I've heard they have Burmese Mtns there. I also have gotten one those characters (he reminds me personality wish of a RF).
emysemys@pacbell.net Wrote:Feylin Wrote:Have people around here owned their tortoises for as long as Lois and I? I kind of assumed that's just how it worked.....
My very first tortoise was Mi-Shell, a California desert tortoise. I took her in about 35 years ago. I still have her, but she is very sick with an infection (abcess) on her head that has a bad strain of bacteria that is almost impossible to kill. For the past three years we've been trying everything we can but we can't get rid of it. Now it has gone into the bone. I'm afraid I'm going to lose her.
Yvonne
Yvonne that must be really devastating. Hard to do everything you can and to still be seeming to lose the battle. 35 years seems like a long time, but I know to you it's been way too short a time. Maybe some how things will turn around. *hugs*