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    To the new people of the forum!

    I can without hesitation say that quite a few times I have however you want to put it been face-to-face with death. Whooping cough as an infant, my sister give me crystal Drano as a toddler, burnt down a two-story chicken coop with me in it, was Robed stabbed in the kidney and Left 4 Dead while...
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    What’s in a name

    My Redfoot children are Danny and Danielle. They are named after a bartender and her helper at the Hitching Post in Watertown New York.I am Patrick hence PatrickDannyandDanielle. Around The hitching Post I am referred to as "the other Pat" with reference to another longtime bartender from The...
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    Can you train a tort to sit, lay, etc... ?

    Every child is a personality of it's own my Danny seems to prefer the sweet red bell peppers my Danielle appears to enjoy a Hungarian half hot pepper.Both enjoy the company of people.I had not the pleasure of raising them since " birth" and so do not know how much of their taste and activities...
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    Can you train a tort to sit, lay, etc... ?

    I started this very similar thread a couple weeks ago asking if there was any sort of therapy or service tortoise out there because I had seen a PBS special that showed someone training a tortoise and I understood the documentary to be stating that tortoise intelligence are on the very similar...
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    Torts with purpose?

    Speaking from experience I know what a hand full a raccoon can be! My buddie pulled one from a cavity in a wall of his residence back in the woods.He had to bottle feed the tiny guy at first he was so helpless. "Varmit" grew to be quite big, stuck around for three years then seemingly started a...
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    To the new people of the forum!

    How is it that you know anything about a doctor before or even after you pick them up? "If doctor shopping is wrong I don't want to be right"
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    Now here's something you don't see everyday

    They would have cuffed me!
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    To the new people of the forum!

    My only experience is with my two 7 and 8 yr.old( I think, how does one age them?) Redfoots, that have been under my care for 2 yrs now. Reading stories here and watching Utube and reading books leave me thinking how much I missed as Danny and Danielle grew up.I wonder too " are other species...
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    Tortoise Enrichment

    Now I wonder thinking back to this last summer we were camping and I built a hide out of a new metal garbage can laid down and half filled with soil,moss,leaves and mulch for the torts inside the tent.Danielle would exit the hide by sliding down the ramp I installed.I thought she didn't like...
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    Tortoise Enrichment

    Let's just hope that what we do is not to little to late. Support for places like this where we might learn to better our environment is the least we can do.
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    To the new people of the forum!

    My tablet with pics was stolen more than a year ago with the pics of my "turtle dome" and now am no longer in that house.My phone is down and I use another not knowing if I can somehow access the old photos but might get help tonight.I have given a pretty good description of how these torts...
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    Tortoise Enrichment

    When it comes down to it I think that as a species the human race is narsasistic at the core and more than likely messed it up for the rest of us. Speaking for the torts of this world of course
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    Torts with purpose?

    I traveled to Buffalo NY more than 40 times in the course of4 yrs I think it was trying to support an aquaintence getting medical care at the Roswell Cancer treatment hospital and they had dogs visit and people seemed to love and benifit from them.I wonder if torts would fit in a role like...
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    To the new people of the forum!

    I I Meant to say anyone here not everyone here has lost a tort before it's time. I hope that people understand that I am devoted to the care of my pets and am told often that I am seen to treat my pets better than many parents do their children.Sadly I believe it the truth.I have always...
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