Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Happy Friday everyone
I was thinking of everyone and Tidgy when I looked at my wonderful calendar
Happy Tidgy Month, Noel ! ! !
And happy Friday!
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Happy Tidgy Month, Noel ! ! !
And happy Friday!
I like to drizzle some cheez whiz over the top of the kraft singles for full effect.
Oh, no!
Er, i mean welcome back, Cameron!
And apparently 6 weeks behind
Happy Tidgy month Adam !Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Tidgy Month, Noel ! ! !
And happy Friday!
Yes, of course !Another reason to be grateful for Tidgy! ! !
Hey "stranger" ! Good to see you.
From that post of Ed you have to catch up with 5000 or more posts I think.....Good luck !
Bambam1989
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What a horrible situation! I want to hug you for rescuing her. People can be so cruel and thoughtlessWe 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.
That is a lot of posts.
It's not deliberate cruelty or thoughtlessness, just shear ignorance.
They simply do not understand why this is wrong.
"It's just an animal".
They are a kind, welcoming, generous and charming family.
Yes, you're up late tonight, Sabine!
Off to bed at once!
Sleep well, my friend, speak soon.
Raqib Farid
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Ok.
I know I have feed him meat. I know their diet. I read forums about him
And yes I will release him as soon as possible. That's all what I am saying since yesterday [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
Raqib Farid
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Thanks.Nos da, Raqib!
Sleep well.
Have a productive and fun day at the office if you can.
And good morning everyone.
Gotta go office. Will catch-up things later.
TC. Love you all. [emoji8]
Raqib Farid
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Yes right. I also read bout them.
They are not in danger of extinction. I am telling about their relation from which they connect they or only last one of those.
I will share it here after coming back from office.
May be I am wrong in such a way I will be rectified. [emoji4]
Fingers crossed. We huffed and puffed at the rain clouds here, but it took them a while to reach @CarolM. Hoping for a lasting rain over there.
Good morning, Raqib!
Good morning, roommates!
We’re getting ready to go to a party. Fastelavn is a carnival that takes place before Lent, and traditionally the central activity involved putting a black cat into a barrel, then trying to break the barrel by hitting it. (Medieval Europe, say goodbye to cats. Say hello to the plague
) Now they fill the barrel with candy. 
Unfortunately they don't stay baby size very long. Sulcatas grow very quickly into 100lb+ bulldozers that go where they darn well please. When you take on a tortoise as a pet, you are taking on a lifetime project... That's your lifetime. Kept properly, they should live for 50 years, probably much more.
Unfortunately there are people all over the world who don't think this way and think of their shelled pets of having a short lifespan and don't concern themselves with providing the correct care for long, healthy and happy life; they simply don't see what they're doing as cruelty.
I'll climb off my soapbox now
