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Hello All,

My name is Kate and I work at the Houston Zoo. I recently bought a 3 year old Red Foot named Tessa. I built her a large enclosure in my backyard, with edible landscaping and all the Hibiscus she could ask for. I've worked with Tortoises before, but this is my first time to actually own one, so I'm sure I'll be spending plenty of time on this site! I'm looking forward to meeting you all!

Kate

Hello and welcome to TFO, glad to have you here.. Your tort is very cute.

Hi Kate! Welcome. I always thought it would be pretty neat to work in a zoo (instead of just living in one ). Do you enjoy it? If Tessa is like my Redfoots, she must be in tortoise heaven with the hibiscus.

Hi Kate,
Welcome to the forum Just one thing about your Redfoot. Can you take a picture of her head from down on top? It looks like she might have an ear infection on the right hand side.

Danny

Oh I missed that, It does look swollen. Good eye Danny!

Welcome to the forum!

Welcome to the forum Kate and you Tessa is a cutie.

Welcome,

Nice to see a fellow zookeeper, I work at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Just curious, did you go to Santa Fe CC? That is where I fell in love with tortoises! Which animals do you work with at Houston?

Dianne

Welcome! Gorgeous tortoise!!! More pics please! We all LOVE red-foots here!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the Forum, I used to live there, my family is still living in Houston. My wife doesn't want to move back there yet, and she says: "Houston has the largest bugs I've ever seen!". I hope you keep your tort inside...you know what I mean,,,,,,lot of RED ANTS outside.

I Kate, it's cool to "meet" another Houston area person here in the Tort forums! Tessa is a lovely lady if I do say so! So to make it all official Texas style .... HOWDY! Welcome Yall!
I love the Houston Zoo, it's been a few years since I've been by but I think it would be a nice treat for my 2yr old to see all of the cool animals. So, yeah um, how's it going with all of tha "crank call" mess over there? I heard about it on the news, Geeze some folks just have nothing better to do I guess! ;0/ HA! but you should hear the wacked out CRAZY calls I get over at JSC... the REAL KuKus come out when the Shuttle goes up! Never Fails, LOL!

~Erin

howdy! im from houston too. nice to meet yall.