Recent content by Lady of the Tort Fort

In The Hague, the Netherlands, a tortoise was found with its shell painted pink and yellow (article in Dutch). https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/schildpad-kleurrijk-gekweld-met-verf~aeeaef76/ Summary/translation: The painted tortoise was found by a child and brought to the police. The police...

I put a pingpong ball in my baby Russian's enclosure to see if he would react to it, but after reading this thread I'm glad that he has been completely ignoring it for months. As for the agression against objects, I can relate to the fact that he is very suspiciously watching every move of this...

Turtle news from the Netherlands (written in Dutch): https://www.ad.nl/amersfoort/7-kilometer-file-op-a28-door-overstekende-schildpad~ad87b45b8/ A Dutch traffic service company posted on Twitter, that a turtle was crossing a highway and causing a 7 kilometer (4.5 mile) traffic jam. It is...

Yoda's mom

After my long and slightly frustrated posts, I would like to add that owning a tortoise turned out to be even more fun than I expected and I'm happy that I have this little guy!

Thanks for the warm welcome and the advice. I will be getting supplies to set up a set up a separate enclosure and probably put up an ad to find a new owner for one of them. I feel kind of sad, because I wanted to make the right decision for the animal from the start and I thought I had done a...

Hi everyone! I'm new on the forum. I'm also quite new to keeping tortoises, as I am the owner of two one-year-old Russians since three months. Their names are Yoda and Platvoet (Dutch for Little Foot from The Land before Time). The forum has already helped me through a lot of beginner stress...