Galileo

spring pace · Jun 16, 2009

hi, i joined this forum yesterday, so far its been very cool reading all the posts. galileo is my 6 year old male. hes been w/ me a little over 4 years now. he was the size of the palm of my hand back then, i was able to rub noses w/ him until about a year ago, this year i can only carry him on my hip. i recently enlarged his yard and im fully expecting him to double his yearly weight gain of about 5#s per for the last 4 years. he was 19#s at his last years vet check and hes about due for another one, hes now 26#s and hes only been full time grazing for 2 mos. its like walking w/ dinosaurs, i love it. hes a very good boy, doesnt go after toes, doesnt ram and i never hand fed him, but he does love having his head and chin rubbed. hes lmy guard tort, his fenceline is right next door to my front door and whenever someone comes down, hes right there checking it out. with the new yard setup, theres no fence between my sliders and his yard, its so cool to look out the door and see him w/o a fence to look through. we live in the santa monica mtns of los angeles, very great place to raise a tort full time outside. his official home is a heated deck box inside a separate caged area, we have coyotes. i aint letting no mangy dog get my guy ;o) i still use a substrate, its been the large chunked coconut bark lately, easy to clean, always smells good and since galis not a digger at least hes got something to throw around, make a nest, whatever. we got a good plan going on here so far. galileo came to me because he was so cute when the size of a quarter at the pet store, the little girl next door had to have 2. short story, she lost interest, the little ones needed a home and asked me, never in my wildest dreams did i ever think i wanted a tort. marilyn, the 2nd tort didnt make it, died a week after she came to live w/ me. gali got sick too, really sick, i broke my ankle within a month of getting them, couldnt walk/work for 6 mos., had time to focus full time on getting gali well again and in the process, I FELL IN LOVE. galileo & speing big smiles

aktech23 · Jun 17, 2009

welcome to the forum, time for some pictures!

Yvonne G · Jun 17, 2009

Hi Spring! I think you're going to enjoy posting on this forum once you get the hang of the format. I like it much better than YAHOOgroups, now that I've become more familiar with it. And the people here, even though some of them are on my YAHOOgroups, are so much friendlier and fun to talk to. I like that you can post a subject under its own heading rather than having to post in only one place. And we are much more forgiving of the way you take care of your animals...as long as you're trying to do right by them. Some of the groups I belong to on YAHOO don't allow you to have a different opinion than the owner of that group, but you can speak your mind here. We're always open to new ideas. I really like that you can post pictures right in the body of your postings. Looking forward to seeing pictures of Galileo.

Yvonne

Maggie Cummings · Jun 17, 2009

I am so glad you came here Spring. Just like Yvonne says, nobody will get mad at you here for having a different opinion on caring for your tortoise. We are looking forward to seeing pictures of Gali cuz you can do this...

janiedough · Jun 17, 2009

gali sounds cute - you REALLY need to post pics.

I am totally in love with my Percy, that it is making me tort crazy - well - sulcata crazy.

spring pace · Jun 17, 2009

hi yvonne, hi maggie, hi janie, i feel all warm and fuzzy already. thanks for the warm welcome, and thanks maggie for helping me get galis bio on the right page and yvonne for getting me to the right page. you were both extremely helpful. ill get pics up as soon as i have a minute to do it. thought this week would be a calm one, turns out its not. just bought a kiddie pool, im going to turn it into a mud hole for gali, hopefully tomorrow. smiles, spring

http://i41.tinypic.com/vio095.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/2edob4y.jpg
http://i44.tinypic.com/2dwdp3.jpg

dont know if you will be able to see these. havent got a clue about photo bucket, maggie gave me the link to the tinypic, thats how i got the avatar. smiles, spring

OK it worked clicking on the links, now to figure out how to make pictures
http://i39.tinypic.com/2ef6wc0.jpg
found another one i love

aluras · Jun 17, 2009

Those are great pics,,,you should get some newer ones up on here

You have a beautiful tort on your hands there.Welcome to the forum..I gaurentee you will be hooked.
~Aaron

spring pace · Jun 17, 2009

janiedough said:
gali sounds cute - you REALLY need to post pics.

I am totally in love with my Percy, that it is making me tort crazy - well - sulcata crazy.

thats a gallant name janie, would love to see more pics of percy. im officially a tort nerd. i went to scotland last year because i met 4 fab women w/ torts a couple years ago and we talked every day on line, then decided we had to see eachother in person. it was an amazing trip and the women are fabulous. this year im planning on mtg 2 more fab women in country this time in september. who would have thunk a tortoise could open my world so wide for me? smiles, spring

maggie3fan said:
I am so glad you came here Spring. Just like Yvonne says, nobody will get mad at you here for having a different opinion on caring for your tortoise. We are looking forward to seeing pictures of Gali cuz you can do this...

hey maggie, did you use photo bucket to post bobs pic?

spring pace · Jun 17, 2009

aluras said:
Those are great pics,,,you should get some newer ones up on here You have a beautiful tort on your hands there.Welcome to the forum..I gaurentee you will be hooked.
~Aaron

thanks aaron, youve got quite a crew yourself. aint it fun? im a dogwalker/housesitter as my full time work passion, so i could go on and on about all the pets i care for. its a great life. about a year and a half ago i moved and it turns out that a couple of my neighbors have multiple torts and multiple species. i have a 110 # aldabra right up the street from me. its definitely a busy and happy life i have. smiles, galileo & spring

Yvonne G · Jun 17, 2009

Spring: Once you get your picture either on photobucket or whatever, then you copy the code under the picture then come back to the forum and paste it in your reply.

Yvonne

tortoisenerd · Jun 17, 2009

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Photobucket with a user account required or tinypic with no user account required (image codes) are great for uploading pictures.

Thanks so much for sharing Galileo with us.

So cute!

Stazz · Jun 17, 2009

Awww Galileo is BEAUTIFUL spring

Lovely pics of him!

Gulf Coast · Jun 17, 2009

Wonderful pictures of Galileo.. Wow and to live where most have torts in your neighborhood. That is so neat!!!

Maggie Cummings · Jun 18, 2009

I use tinyurl for Bob pictures after you pull up your picture and open it there's a number that says it for forum just copy and paste into your post...see I told you you'd like it here...

spring pace · Jun 18, 2009

maggie3fan said:
I use tinyurl for Bob pictures after you pull up your picture and open it there's a number that says it for forum just copy and paste into your post...see I told you you'd like it here...

thanks maggie, i know where to look now, just above where i pasted the links in from the tinypics. you are so right, i really do like it here, much easier now that i kinda know my way around. im waiting for transfers from my camera so i can put in MORE pictures. smiles, spring

tortoisenerd said:
Hi and welcome to the forum!

Photobucket with a user account required or tinypic with no user account required (image codes) are great for uploading pictures.

Thanks so much for sharing Galileo with us. So cute!

thanks kate, i love sharing. smiles, spring

Stazz said:
Awww Galileo is BEAUTIFUL spring Lovely pics of him!

thanks stace, its been a wonderment having him, i had no comparisons when i first learned of sulcatas. between he and i we did GREAT!!!!!

Gulf Coast said:
Wonderful pictures of Galileo.. Wow and to live where most have torts in your neighborhood. That is so neat!!!

waldos pretty handsome himself gulf coast. i know!!!! what a treat, had no idea there were so many torts in the canyon, i am definitely in good company. smiles, spring

Gulf Coast · Jun 18, 2009

Spring, look at you!! already using the Quote feature..

Thanks for the kind words about Waldo.. He is so darn cute. I just love his size but everytime I see a picture of the big guys and gals I am in aww of their beauty... and I love what you said " its like walking w/ dinosaurs"

spring pace · Jun 18, 2009

blazing a trail in the foxtail field flag waving so i dont lose him ;O)

Maggie Cummings · Jun 18, 2009

What a great picture!!! But when those foxtails start to dry keep him out of there...

Millerlite · Jun 18, 2009

whys that maggie? Never had fox tails grow. Interesting though.

Funny hes just making his own trail.

Yvonne G · Jun 18, 2009

Millerlite said:
whys that maggie? Never had fox tails grow. Interesting though.

Funny hes just making his own trail.

If you look real close in the foxtail picture you will see that each seed head contains many, many individual seeds. Each seed has barbs along the outside of it so if it gets in between a dog's toes, down an ear canal or in an eye, they can only go forward, which they do. I've seen a dog with an eruption up on his leg from a fox tail that had started between his toes. All infected and very painful. When they get inside the tortoise's eye, or in his soft skin areas, it could become infected. And you usually don't see it until its a problem.

Yvonne

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