I've been fostering 3 Russian tortoises for almost 4 months...so it's time for the keeper to take them back...I have already told him that his care needs help...so he's decided because I said they need to be seperated and couldn't all be kept in a 50 gallon aquarium... he's giving me the small male and the female and he's keeping the big male...after all...he can live alone in a 50 gallon aquarium...crap.
I like the little male, he's been the product of bullying his whole life by the big female, but alone he is sorta coming out of himself...he's more relaxed...he eats like Sulcata until the female is there, then he hides and won't eat at all. So they have all been separated for most of the time I've had them...they were all fairly light when I got them but now all 3 are pretty heavy. I bet the female weighs almost 2 pounds...they all look good except for the seriously overgrown beaks. So...this is what I plan...because it's obvious they've never been soaked or handled much if at all, I'm gonna change their lives...I've already bought a small dremel tool...they are freaked out to be picked up and panic in soaking water. So I'm gonna hold them and talk to'em and carry them around with me...just until the panic part of their demeanor fades away. I'm gonna start with her stroking her head and rubbing her neck maybe I can get them so I can have someone else hold them while file...sounds good anyway...I know of a box turtle named Large Marge, so that's out for this Russian lady and I already named the little male Little Bit.
The female...
look at her spine?
See that can??? Yes, steel cut oats came in it. I get them all the time so a can ain't no big...but my grandkid was fascinated...and evidently after I stopped paying attention she cut out the bottom on my electric antique can opener, and buried part under the substrate and she figured (I guess) that Little Bit was going to happily use it as a toy...or unhappily stuck in it for an unknown length of time...the least was the 2 hours I was in town...this is what I discovered when I came home...
hahahahahahlolololol he got stuck and evidently he pulled it around (saw tracks) until he got stuck in the corner...and he was stuck in the can...look at him. I know it's immature to laugh, but I was almost gonna...yep, hadda cross my legs I was laughing so hard...
oh boy! So here are the big female and her mate the Munchkin Russian tortoise Vlad...aka Little Bit...
I like the little male, he's been the product of bullying his whole life by the big female, but alone he is sorta coming out of himself...he's more relaxed...he eats like Sulcata until the female is there, then he hides and won't eat at all. So they have all been separated for most of the time I've had them...they were all fairly light when I got them but now all 3 are pretty heavy. I bet the female weighs almost 2 pounds...they all look good except for the seriously overgrown beaks. So...this is what I plan...because it's obvious they've never been soaked or handled much if at all, I'm gonna change their lives...I've already bought a small dremel tool...they are freaked out to be picked up and panic in soaking water. So I'm gonna hold them and talk to'em and carry them around with me...just until the panic part of their demeanor fades away. I'm gonna start with her stroking her head and rubbing her neck maybe I can get them so I can have someone else hold them while file...sounds good anyway...I know of a box turtle named Large Marge, so that's out for this Russian lady and I already named the little male Little Bit.
The female...
look at her spine?
See that can??? Yes, steel cut oats came in it. I get them all the time so a can ain't no big...but my grandkid was fascinated...and evidently after I stopped paying attention she cut out the bottom on my electric antique can opener, and buried part under the substrate and she figured (I guess) that Little Bit was going to happily use it as a toy...or unhappily stuck in it for an unknown length of time...the least was the 2 hours I was in town...this is what I discovered when I came home...
hahahahahahlolololol he got stuck and evidently he pulled it around (saw tracks) until he got stuck in the corner...and he was stuck in the can...look at him. I know it's immature to laugh, but I was almost gonna...yep, hadda cross my legs I was laughing so hard...
oh boy! So here are the big female and her mate the Munchkin Russian tortoise Vlad...aka Little Bit...
