Hello! I’ve been wanting a tortoise for years (and I do mean years!) I’ve done tons and tons of research, and I really have my heart set on a leopard tortoise... I’m just not sure how one will fair in Missouri. Our weather is crazy - it could snow one day and then be 90 degrees the next, plus humidity gets pretty high. Needless to say any tortoise I purchase will be living indoors some of the time. I would also like a tortoise I can mess with - and NO, I will not have him running around the house for six hours straight. Just one I can pet and maybe hold for ten minutes before letting him go about his day. I have a nice fenced in yard (that will definitely be tortoise-proofed!) but I live in a trailer, and while I can definitely find room for a tortoise table space is a bit limited. I can’t say why I love the leopards so much, I love their shells of course but there’s something about them that I just love - I’d go with a male in hopes he’d say smaller but I know an easy mishap and I can end up with a female, especially when it comes to gender-ing babies.
Okay, that’s probably enough ranting. Please let me know what you guys think... I’d love a leopard but I don’t want to harm one by not giving him the proper care and space.
If you think a leopard tortoise is the wrong fit for me which species do you think I should go with? Thanks a ton!
Okay, that’s probably enough ranting. Please let me know what you guys think... I’d love a leopard but I don’t want to harm one by not giving him the proper care and space.
If you think a leopard tortoise is the wrong fit for me which species do you think I should go with? Thanks a ton!