COLD DARK ROOM

[JoesMum]

Good morning all.

It's a week this morning that I got stung by that wasp and I can at last wear my wedding ring again

Sorry to hear about the rain Jane. We had a similar deluge forecast for yesterday, but it missed us; we had no rain at all. There was flooding in Ashford about 20 miles away.

 

[JSWallace]

The thing is he cracked them and ate the kernel. We regularly eat cherries and spit the pip out. Cyanide clearly doesn't pass through the shell of the pip as the fruit would be poisonous if it did.

I think the same would apply to a peach stone. That said, a peach stone is pretty enormous. There aren't many species that could eat one whole! It was either a large tortoise or a small peach (apricot?)

Yes stupid man, why on earth would you do that!!!

 

[JSWallace]

Good morning all.

It's a week this morning that I got stung by that wasp and I can at last wear my wedding ring again

Sorry to hear about the rain Jane. We had a similar deluge forecast for yesterday, but it missed us; we had no rain at all. There was flooding in Ashford about 20 miles away.

Yea good news Linda. Rain started Monday evening and hasn't let up since and it's proper heavy rain. My road has no drains so looks like a mini river just now!

 

[JoesMum]

Does anyone in the UK want these? Found in a cupboard! I'll post them

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I would normally alert Deadheadvet, but he's left the forum.

Maybe he's lurking. (I thought it was a she?)

 

[Bee62]

CAT LOVERS
Save yourself money on expensive cat carriers.
Simply tie your pets tail to one of its back legs to make a handy carrying loop.

Try it and you will painful learn how much sharp claws a cat has !

 

[Bee62]

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Alfie had been with Mrs wifey for years, and in Mr Adam's humble opinion it was a miracle that he was still alive, and he lived on her balcony summer and winter. Mr Adam had joined Tortoise Forum, which was pretty darned clever as it hadn't been invented yet, and knew that the hard tiles of the terrace were terribly bad for Alfie's feet and legs, though it did keep his beak and claws trimmed nicely. He was also aware that Horsfield tortoises, for Alfie was a Testudo horsfieldii, known as Horsfields in the UK and Russians everywhere else, except Russia, probably, were excellent climbers and diggers and Alfie would be happier with a nice substrate such as fine grade orchid bark, coco coir or even cypress mulch to burrow into and walk on. But Mr Adam was too shy to say anything.
Originally, Mrs wifey had placed planks around the edge of the balcony so that Alfie could walk about without toppling over the edge, but these had been replaced by much higher walls after Alfie had been seen climbing them and Mrs wifey had heard at the bingo from her friend Mrs Moozillion that a Horsfield had recently been found at Base Camp Three on Everest.
And in one corner of the balcony was a little house into which little Alfie would crawl every night to keep warm.


When the cold weather came along in November, Mrs wifey would fill Alfie's house with dry hay which would make him sneeze terribly and would sometimes go moldy when wet (sigh) and the tortoise would crawl in there and bury himself deep under the hay and go to sleep for months on end without any food or water. This was called hibernating by Mrs wifey, and brumating by Mr Adam who was right as usual. But he was too shy to correct her.



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Mr. Adam should give Mrs. Wifey a book about tortoises and how to keep them correctly.......
Poor Alfie....

 

[Bee62]

It looks very, very scary.
Like a haunted school or an insane asylum.

QuiiiiieeeeK ! Your aswer is funny but mean ! If you had wrote that about my house I swear I never had spoken a word with you again !

 

[Bee62]

Walking getting harder but as long as my wife keeps trying to get away !I'll keep chasing her !!!

Do you allow me to ask you how old you are ?

 

[Bee62]

Crikey !
A member's tortoise has swallowed a peach stone and all and sundry are saying it will probably be okay.
Do I tell them that, according to the Tortoise Table, peach stones contain cyanide or just shut up for once ?

To my opinion: As long as the peach stone passed closed ( not broken in pieces ) the intestines of the tortoise, the cyanide will stay in the peach stone and won`t harm the tortoise.
That is the same way of birds eating seeds that contain poison ( yew berries ), but when the seeds pass the intestine closed, the poison does not harm the bird !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

And it would seem I found this at the proper time and instantly thought of Adam. Go figure , right ?View attachment 215162
Happy reading …

Most excellent, I must try and get a copy.
I can't think why you thought of me !
Hello, Ken.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it:

Lancashire man poisoned after eating cherry seeds - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-40738573

Good afternoon, Jane.
Thanks for that, well caught.
What a silly man, why would you do that ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Unless the pit were ground up, I don't think much cyanide would be absorbed by the tort. It will probably just pass through without breaking down.

Thanks, i certainly hope so.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The thing is he cracked them and ate the kernel. We regularly eat cherries and spit the pip out. Cyanide clearly doesn't pass through the shell of the pip as the fruit would be poisonous if it did.

I think the same would apply to a peach stone. That said, a peach stone is pretty enormous. There aren't many species that could eat one whole! It was either a large tortoise or a small peach (apricot?)

Redfoot tortoise.
I think he'll be okay, the OP hasn't come back anyway.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good morning all.

It's a week this morning that I got stung by that wasp and I can at last wear my wedding ring again

Sorry to hear about the rain Jane. We had a similar deluge forecast for yesterday, but it missed us; we had no rain at all. There was flooding in Ashford about 20 miles away.

Good afternoon, Linda.
Glad the sting's finally subsiding properly.
Time for revenge!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Maybe he's lurking. (I thought it was a she?)

Good morning, Ed.
Last posted 19th July.
Last peeped 24th July.
Yes, maybe he was a she now i think about it.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Try it and you will painful learn how much sharp claws a cat has !

Good afternoon, Sabine.
I thought you might respond to this one!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

QuiiiiieeeeK ! Your aswer is funny but mean ! If you had wrote that about my house I swear I never had spoken a word with you again !

Yes, funny and quite true.
Not true about your house, more a place for Leprechaun's or Fairies.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good afternoon, all, was tortoise visiting this morning, a student now, so will see you all in a couple of hours.

 

[Moozillion]

Crikey !
A member's tortoise has swallowed a peach stone and all and sundry are saying it will probably be okay.
Do I tell them that, according to the Tortoise Table, peach stones contain cyanide or just shut up for once ?

I agree with all the people posting about the pit not releasing the cyanide as long as it remains intact.

I'm sorry Deadheadvet left the forum.