Newbies can't be trusted?

Cowboy_Ken

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I want to have a tortoise so long that I pass it on in my will. I tend not to handle pet death well.
I think most of us here share that same goal and the life of a tortoise and it's passing hits us all very hard. Maybe because they rely on us so much and we know it, maybe they just fill a spot of our heart we didn't know was empty.
I've only recently now read your, "back-story" as it were and I'm very sorry for your loss. One important advantage to getting a hatchling or a young tortoise from a fellow member is you'll be able ask questions of them here on the forum and get good feedback from them as well as other members that know them.
 

Thomas Lamar

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I think most of us here share that same goal and the life of a tortoise and it's passing hits us all very hard. Maybe because they rely on us so much and we know it, maybe they just fill a spot of our heart we didn't know was empty.
I've only recently now read your, "back-story" as it were and I'm very sorry for your loss. One important advantage to getting a hatchling or a young tortoise from a fellow member is you'll be able ask questions of them here on the forum and get good feedback from them as well as other members that know them.
I'm retrospect, I wish I had this knowledge several weeks ago. Today, I actually went to the vendor's pet shop whom sold me the tortoise at the reptile expo. I wanted to complain. Wanted to demand compensation. Wanted to tell them they sold an a hatchling doomed to fail and if it was obvious to me now it would have been obvious to them then. I got no guarantee or warranty with Wilson. So I really have no ground to stand on which I could make demands or ask for recompense. Looking at the torts they have there, piled in tanks on top of one another made me sad, and angry. But I won't make the same mistake again.
 

Hermes

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This is a bit off topic but yet still relates to the thread, it doesn't matter how much of a new bone is. I've had reptiles since i was 14, I had a 22' Burmese python when I joined the army in 2004 that I bought when it was about 10 inches, and the biggest mistake I've always made has been getting animals from "pet shops" . It's a generalization and obviously there are exceptions but still it's mostly true and most of the time getting a cheap or free animal will end up costing you way more in vet bills and meds
 

Yvonne G

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This is a bit off topic but yet still relates to the thread, it doesn't matter how much of a new bone is. I've had reptiles since i was 14, I had a 22' Burmese python when I joined the army in 2004 that I bought when it was about 10 inches, and the biggest mistake I've always made has been getting animals from "pet shops" . It's a generalization and obviously there are exceptions but still it's mostly true and most of the time getting a cheap or free animal will end up costing you way more in vet bills and meds

You're so very right! And, no matter where you get the animal, the cost of the animal is always way cheaper than what it costs to set it up correctly.
 
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