Ha! You guys are funny! I think he ate the lens before she got a picture. I asked her why she got so close and she told me she was doing "macro" photography.
Suggestions about lube-ing food?
I told my daughter that she is on "poop patrol" until further notice.
Thanks for the advice! His poops are reasonably large in diameter, so maybe he will pass it. Can surgery be done on a tortoise? This is my daughter's pet - I don't know much about them myself. I am the one who looks for help on line when something goes wrong!
Speedy is pretty big - at least 15" from front to back of the bottom of his shell. So far he is behaving normally - he's got a little shelf in the corner of his pen that he hides under and he's there and responsive to being touched. Further irony is that my husband is on his way to Cornell vet...
I can't believe this! My daughter is taking a photography class at school and she was taking pictures of Speedy (our Sulcata tortoise, her special pet). While she was taking the picture, Speedy at the camera lens! She tried to get it out of his mouth, but her bit her and swallowed it. It was...
SPEEDY IS HOME!!!
We got a call this afternoon from a walker who saw him at the top of a driveway by a garage door. She kept an eye on him until we got there. Interestingly, I think it is the same house where he was sighted on the day he went missing. I think the owners are out of town...
Thanks for the words of encouragement. We got a phone call this afternoon from a 6 year old who saw him on his patio. Unfortunately once we got there we found out that the sighting was yesterday. So we looked for about an hour in the rain anyway. This is the last set of houses before a huge...
Hello! I'm glad I found this group. Our 3 year old sulcata tortoise, Speedy, broke out of his outdoor playpen last Tuesday. He was gone at least a couple of hours before we noticed. We put up signs right away. We got a phone call about 10:30 at night about a sighting over 2 hours before, but...