What the dumbest thing your tortoise has ever done
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He tried to eat a cigarette butt once... and then tried again when I threw it away from him...
Put a 6” male RF in with my other 4 full grown RFs at feeding time. He went to the food tray and head bobbed for 15 minutes to try and be the “dominant” one. The others ate and walked away unimpressed. He looked down at the empty tray and then back at me as if to ask “What happened to my meal?”. Ego over appetite.
I've seen babies seemingly intentionally 'jump' off high places, land on their back, right themselves, then climb up to repeat.
tried to eat rocks
Mine has done that too! I climbed on top of its hide then jumped
Jay Bagley
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Tried to eat a washcloth.. I thought he was pretty dumb for trying to eat it, myself equally dumb for giving him the opportunity.
She got up at zero dark thirty, wedged herself sideways between the web cam* and her night box, then got stuck there for forty minutes or so until I went downstairs.
She would have made it through when she got warm enough.
*Web cam now moved further from night box.
She would have made it through when she got warm enough.
*Web cam now moved further from night box.
That's a difficult question! There have been so many dumb things! Maybe when he walked underneath my teak lounge chair and it got stuck on his back. He carried it out on the lawn before he got free.
Via Infinito
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Eating his own **** that he shat in the garden,
then I removed it and he cleverly did a tour to come back to the same spot where the **** was, sniffed the soil then ate a mouthful of soil where the **** was...
then I removed it and he cleverly did a tour to come back to the same spot where the **** was, sniffed the soil then ate a mouthful of soil where the **** was...
Jay Bagley
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Haha, love it.[emoji23]
Try to eat a red circle printed on newspaper.
It was the cherry season, there was a glut and he was obsessed with eating windfall cherries if I wasn't quick enough to pick them up from the garden. Being a Greek he wasn't supposed to eat them at all, but the cherry stones in his poop showed when I had failed to beat him to the forbidden fruit
It was the cherry season, there was a glut and he was obsessed with eating windfall cherries if I wasn't quick enough to pick them up from the garden. Being a Greek he wasn't supposed to eat them at all, but the cherry stones in his poop showed when I had failed to beat him to the forbidden fruit
I once put Big Gino and Little Gino together for a refereed boxing match (I put my boys together in the spring to size up one another, supervised so that they don't actually hurt one another, so that they show more interest in breeding with the females; boys are always more interested in the girls when they feel there is a looming threat on the horizon), and after getting in one another's faces, Big Gino became distracted by a dandelion flower growing to his left and started eating it. Little Gino took the opportunity to bite Big Gino's face while his mouth was full of flowers. It made that crunchy sound of beak on scales that makes my skin crawl. I promptly separated them and checked Big Gino for damage to his face, which thankfully, there was none. The big man gets distracted. He's done this when I introduce him to the girls too. He'll be there with Marge, trying to chase her, and he'll come across a clover patch and decide that he just has to stop for a minute and graze. Meanwhile, she gets away, and when he finally realizes what's happened, he looks about the place confused. Then he'll just start grazing again. Out of sight out of mind with that fellow, and given his priorities, it's no wonder he's fathered fewer hatchlings than Little Gino. Little Gino is laser focused, though he is much less personable, which makes sense to me, though I'd probably find explaining why somewhat difficult.
T.G.
T.G.
Clementine's Keeper
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I found my tiny 6m old russian had scaled the wooden corner of her night box to a height of about 7 inches and was just hanging there by her nails like spiderman! I don't know if she was stuck or still climbing. She worries me more than a real baby!
Mine does the same!! Mine decides that the easiest way to get anywhere is to just bulldoze over things rather than walking around them. I’ve found it flipped over at least 3 times because it wanted to get to the other side of the hide, but rather than walk around it, it would try and climb it.
Tortoises don't walk round anything if they can help it.
I have always said I only have 3 types of plant in my garden
1. Edible
2. Trampled
3. Too big to be eaten to the ground or flattened
Haha I have taken great pride in my little border. I’m hoping the small fence I have up will be high enough to keep him out eventually. [emoji1317]
Thetortoiseguy93
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When i used to have my redfoot tortoise he used to climb untop of his hut and jump off lol. My friend who was my roomate told me and i thought he was kidding with me i didnt believe me and i was huh!!?!?!?!! When i saw it. I dont remembernbut i think it was cause i had it near his pool of water.
