Greetings from Applehead

Applehead

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5 Year Member
Joined
Oct 3, 2015
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5
Location (City and/or State)
Central North Carolina
Applehead would like to say hello and express appreciation for all the helpful information gleaned by his caretaker from this forum over many years of quiet membership. Applehead is a rescue who has been with his caretaker's family for over 40 years and currently lives in central North Carolina. He is a desert tortoise about 12 inches long and weighing around 11.5 pounds.

Applehead in kennel.JPG
 

Yvonne G

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Jan 23, 2008
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Location (City and/or State)
Clovis, CA
Glad to see you finally posting!! How did you manage to get a desert tortoise in North Carolina? He's a beaut!
 

Applehead

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5 Year Member
Joined
Oct 3, 2015
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Location (City and/or State)
Central North Carolina
Yes, Applehead's location is unusual! He was given to my family by a neighbor who found him wandering on the highway in the 1970s in a northern state, far too northerly for him to have walked there himself or survived a winter, so clearly an escaped captive. Since then he moved with my family a few times, and during the past few years he and I have became the last survivors of the family.

To head off certain comments: I am aware of his legal status (which changed during my family's time with him) and am making provisions in my will for him to go to an appropriate rescue group in the southwest when the time comes. I see myself as his caretaker rather than owner and strongly advocate for people not to seek these animals as pets. He is not a pet, though he is charming, responsive to humans, and loves to be hand fed flowers. More stories and pictures to come.
 

MPappagallo

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Jun 8, 2019
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Location (City and/or State)
Myrtle Beach, SC
Welcome to the forum. Applehead is adorable! That face is the cutest thing ever! I am in South Carolina, so we are practically neighbors. :)
 
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