Jen H
New Member
Hi all. I have been reading these forum threads for a while and truly enjoy the conversations and education and that there are so many people who love their turtles/tortoises as much as I do. I have one adult male red foot named Bob who I adopted and whom we adore. He is a little shy but over time has gotten used to our voices. Unfortunately we recently lost our other male red foot Bubba. He was a also adopted about 4 years ago and while he had some medical needs at the time of adoption, he was thriving. While the vet and I are not 100% sure what happened, Bubba presented symptoms of a respitory infection and after 8 treatments with antibiotic/ antibacterial injections (with minimal improvement) he passed away. Needless to say we are heartbroken and the vet believes given his lack of responsiveness to the antibiotic that perhaps there was something wrong with his heart.
While there will never be a replacement for Bubba (he was quite the character), we would love to open our home to a red foot or yellow foot that is in need if a new home. I would prefer to adopt given the number of tortoises that are in need of a good home; even open to any with special needs. Happy to make a donation, pay an adoption fee etc. It really is not as much about the money as it is the opportunity to provide a loving healthy forever home to a tortoise that needs one.
If anyone knows anyone who is in need of rehoming please let me know.
Thank you all and happy to officially be part of the community
While there will never be a replacement for Bubba (he was quite the character), we would love to open our home to a red foot or yellow foot that is in need if a new home. I would prefer to adopt given the number of tortoises that are in need of a good home; even open to any with special needs. Happy to make a donation, pay an adoption fee etc. It really is not as much about the money as it is the opportunity to provide a loving healthy forever home to a tortoise that needs one.
If anyone knows anyone who is in need of rehoming please let me know.
Thank you all and happy to officially be part of the community