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Nos da, Raqib!
Sleep well.
Have a productive and fun day at the office if you can.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's wonderful news!
Hi Dan. Good evening.
And the cute babies turn into beasty bulldozers in a few years ! Yeahh, I like my beasty bulldozers !
Bambam1989
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Yes they are
I like the innocent look on her or his face .....
"What ? A wall ? I have seen no wall. It must have been in my way but honestly there was nooooo wall" ......
We were invited to a friend's house for a meal in the Eid al-Adha, the big festival in Muslim countries, sort of culturally the big thing like Christmas or Thanksgiving in other places.
While there we noticed one of the small children playing with a tortoise, twisting one of each of its front and back limbs in opposite directions.
wifey said how horrible this was and I remarked it was just a rubber toy, but it wasn't.
The children used this tiny tort and another (Tidgy) as toy cars, pushing them around and crashing them head first into each other to simulate car crashes.
The adults kicked them out of the way as they walked past.
They were fed on meat scraps, fat and tomato and roamed the house looking for somewhere to hide away from the pain and bright lights.
Tidgy had had one on her scutes cut out to make a pretty necklace and had a hole in her oozing yellow, bits of bone and lung covering could be seen under a thin yellow membrane.
When we were leaving i said i wanted these tortoises.
In the culture, you kind of have to say yes if someone asks for something or even admires it a lot.
They gave us Tidgy, but the other tort was owned by the father of another child and wasn't there so we couldn't take the other one.
It was dead in a few days.
I took Tidgy home, wifey making up the name from Tgg (sort of Tidgy) Testudo graeca graeca, i stopped at the Cyber cafe to research on the way back and Tidgy weakly tried to crawl away from me terrified.
i spent hours a day with her, washing her wounds, speaking gently to her, trying to get her to eat, until about eight days later she finally started to come out of her shell, eat and fight to survive. She decided it was a good place and wanted to live. Life's good.
She used to scream silently, mouth open and stretching her neck out full and to one-side, i'm certain she had damage to the neck, but eventually she recovered, the hole scabbed and a couple of years later the scab fell off leaving the rough black scute that doesn't match the others that she has to this day.
And i fell in love with her.
Most wonderful!Here it is !
Tidgy can be destructive enough, I love reading the posts of sulcatas smashing things up!
We had two budgies, one, Peppermint, was found queuing with a chicken pecking order in a neighbours garden.I've had several budgies! I REALLY enjoy them and typically let them fly around the house a bit.
When I was a child we let our budgie fly around the house. it used to like landing on my mother's head and plucking out hairs, one by one! It wouldn't do this to any else- just Mom!!!! She wouldn't tolerate it much...can't imagine why!
One day it was one of our birthdays, and the cake was all decorated and sitting in the center of the dining room table. The budgie was out flying around, and when I went to put him in his cage, he had some sort of odd blue stuff on his toes. It wiped off easily but I couldn't figure out what it was. When we saw the birdie footprints through the icing on the birthday cake, we knew!!!
The bizarre thing was the bird was fat and couldn't fly. we think it escaped from the tropical bird gardens on the main road two miles away, but it wasn't ringed like their birds and they denied having lost one, so who knows?
It was a fierce beast and would draw blood when it pecked, but didn't bite me too often. it never did learn how to fly.
Yes, but grow up to be less cute huge monsters that many people then can't take care of.
Oh Adam. This is a sad and heartbreaking story how you got Tidgy and what happend to her. This poor, poor little thing. Being thrown and smashed around, being hurt every time.....We were invited to a friend's house for a meal in the Eid al-Adha, the big festival in Muslim countries, sort of culturally the big thing like Christmas or Thanksgiving in other places.
While there we noticed one of the small children playing with a tortoise, twisting one of each of its front and back limbs in opposite directions.
wifey said how horrible this was and I remarked it was just a rubber toy, but it wasn't.
The children used this tiny tort and another (Tidgy) as toy cars, pushing them around and crashing them head first into each other to simulate car crashes.
The adults kicked them out of the way as they walked past.
They were fed on meat scraps, fat and tomato and roamed the house looking for somewhere to hide away from the pain and bright lights.
Tidgy had had one on her scutes cut out to make a pretty necklace and had a hole in her oozing yellow, bits of bone and lung covering could be seen under a thin yellow membrane.
When we were leaving i said i wanted these tortoises.
In the culture, you kind of have to say yes if someone asks for something or even admires it a lot.
They gave us Tidgy, but the other tort was owned by the father of another child and wasn't there so we couldn't take the other one.
It was dead in a few days.
I took Tidgy home, wifey making up the name from Tgg (sort of Tidgy) Testudo graeca graeca, i stopped at the Cyber cafe to research on the way back and Tidgy weakly tried to crawl away from me terrified.
i spent hours a day with her, washing her wounds, speaking gently to her, trying to get her to eat, until about eight days later she finally started to come out of her shell, eat and fight to survive. She decided it was a good place and wanted to live. Life's good.
She used to scream silently, mouth open and stretching her neck out full and to one-side, i'm certain she had damage to the neck, but eventually she recovered, the hole scabbed and a couple of years later the scab fell off leaving the rough black scute that doesn't match the others that she has to this day.
And i fell in love with her.
Yes, they are sreaming silent and too many people won`t hear.
Good that you heard her silent cry, saw her pain and fear and that you saved her.
I love you for being a very kind man.
There is a sad but true saying:
As long as people think that animals don`t feel pain, animals must feel that people don`t think.
One needs to put signs up to tell them a wall is there.I like the innocent look on her or his face .....
"What ? A wall ? I have seen no wall. It must have been in my way but honestly there was nooooo wall" ......
Thanks, Sabine.Oh Adam. This is a sad and heartbreaking story how you got Tidgy and what happend to her. This poor, poor little thing. Being thrown and smashed around, being hurt every time.....
Yes, they are sreaming silent and too many people won`t hear.
Good that you heard her silent cry, saw her pain and fear and that you saved her.
I love you for being a very kind man.
There is a sad but true saying:
As long as people think that animals don`t feel pain, animals must feel that people don`t think.
I didn't particularly want a tortoise or any pet being too busy with wifey and my stuff, but i'm so, so glad I came back to the wonderful world of tortoises.
When we both not have come back to the world of tortoises we had never met.Thanks, Sabine.
I didn't particularly want a tortoise or any pet being too busy with wifey and my stuff, but i'm so, so glad I came back to the wonderful world of tortoises.
Happy Friday for you too, Noel.Happy Friday everyone
I was thinking of everyone and Tidgy when I looked at my wonderful calendar
In Germany it is already Saturday.
Hi Bee!Happy Friday for you too, Noel.
In Germany it is already Saturday.
It’s good to see you!
