I used to buy ReptiBark from Chewy.com, 8 quart bag for around $16. Then they raised their prices up close to $30 for that same bag. I quit buying it and did without. Amazon was that same high price. Well, the other day I was pretty needy, so I once again looked at "reptile bedding" at...
Many, many years ago, when I first got interested in tortoises, I belonged to our local turtle club. We had heard that if you buy size lots of tortoises from the wholesaler you can get them pretty cheap, so a friend and I borrowed a friend's wholesale number and made the trip to Southern...
Digging out the slush back in 2010:
What happened to the pond with the road widening in 2022:
I'm doing the landscaping a bit at a time (haven't started yet!)
The driveway when you used to live across the street:
The new driveway now (it's now the CDT and Texas tort yards):
See...
My house is about 5 miles outside of town. And when someone wants to take their unwanted cat out to "the country" and turn it loose, as I'm on one of the main thoroughfares out of town, I see a lot of unwanted cats. Last year I started naming them according to the number they showed up here. I...
Whoo Hoo!!! After many, many, MANY rotten eggs, I've finally hatched a Geochelone denticulata baby! The last one I was able to hatch was four years ago and she died a few months ago. She got stuck behind a cinderblock and I didn't miss her until she was dead.
My fairly new to me doberman pup (a year old next month) has decided she's not fond of the dry dog food I've been feeding her. I think it has something to do with the bit of people food she gets when I'm through with my lunch and she finishes it. I'm feeding a good brand, Taste of the Wild, and...
OMG! I've never heard a dog make that sound before!!!
So I'm going around this a.m. feeding the tortoises and I just went through the gate into the Texas tortoise yard which is right next door, fenced off, from the pond. All the sudden I hear this TERRIBLE screaming coming from the pond and I...
How do you teach a SUPER HYPER dog (with springs in her feet) not to jump on me?
I consistently tried each of the following for a week each:
Put out my knee
Turned my back
Hollered STAY DOWN!!!
This week I'm trying the squirt bottle, but she LOVES water.
No, really. I really want to know. Yes, Star Trek is a Tv show, but when Captain Picard says, "Engage!" and the Enterprise takes off with a whoosh, why is the planet they just left sitting stationary in the void! If all the people are not to fall off it shouldn't it be spinning? even a little...
The winner of the beautiful tortoise art is SARAH G.!!
Congrarulations, Sarah. Please shoot me a private message here on the forum with your address and this coming Thursday when I go into town I'll mail you your prize!
The raffle netted over $300 for the Forum. THANK YOU!!! to all who...
This is the last week to buy raffle tickets. Here's the artwork again in case you haven't seen it:
It is composed of little pieces of colored paper glued onto an art board. It is a desert tortoise in the Arizona desert. I can't imagine making pictures out of little scraps of paper, but our...
We're having a raffle to raise a bit of $$ for our Forum. The prize is a beautiful original artwork by one of our members, artist Pamela Bickell. It is titled "Desert Tortoise in Arizona Desert." The artwork is painted papers collage on 14x11 artboard and mounted in an extra-nice frame with a...