I have had numerous different species of tortoises...thanks to my sister I never have had a problem with getting or keeping tortoises. I have only ever paid for 1...a female Hermanni I named Queenie because she was so beautiful and elegant. Anyhow...after being involved in rescue and rehab for almost 20 yrs I have settled down with just a few chelonia, that are pets. I think keeping a tort or 2 is very different then Tom for instance, who has a creep of Sulcata and I experienced them coming at us like a herd of cattle...I think. My sister still keeps numerous tortoises so I group her in with Tom...but keeping a few torts is different then keeping a creep. That's my point. So we experience tortoises different then they do...
I really believe Sulcata are like Pit Bulls...no matter what is done to them...they still come right back...my Knobby is a rescue. He was found walking around in downtown Portland Oregon...brought here to Corvallis and taken to the local wildlife rescue who called me and now I've had Knobs for almost 3 years. He was panicked about people, petrified of water...afraid of being held...and was just plain freaked out. He's badly pyramided but seems to have escaped MBD...he was about 5 lbs when I got him...and is 35 lbs now. All of his new growth
is smooth...
now that I've had him for almost 3 years, his personality is starting to come out...and man oh man...is this guy a tortoise! One day when i was out scoping the yard so I could make new bigger pens, I had Knobby with me in a part of the yard not for tortoises...so Knobs grazed for a bit then he went over to the bird bath...the heavy bird bath...in a corner with just mud...so for whatever reason Knobby...had to seen what was around this thing.
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so my thoughts being...keepers who have large groups of tortoises care for then differently then us pet keepers do and we see our tortoises differently as well...oh and Sulcata are kinda like Pits...hey moderator...would ya mind deleting the extra pix? They wouldn't go for me...thx
I really believe Sulcata are like Pit Bulls...no matter what is done to them...they still come right back...my Knobby is a rescue. He was found walking around in downtown Portland Oregon...brought here to Corvallis and taken to the local wildlife rescue who called me and now I've had Knobs for almost 3 years. He was panicked about people, petrified of water...afraid of being held...and was just plain freaked out. He's badly pyramided but seems to have escaped MBD...he was about 5 lbs when I got him...and is 35 lbs now. All of his new growth
is smooth...
now that I've had him for almost 3 years, his personality is starting to come out...and man oh man...is this guy a tortoise! One day when i was out scoping the yard so I could make new bigger pens, I had Knobby with me in a part of the yard not for tortoises...so Knobs grazed for a bit then he went over to the bird bath...the heavy bird bath...in a corner with just mud...so for whatever reason Knobby...had to seen what was around this thing.
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so my thoughts being...keepers who have large groups of tortoises care for then differently then us pet keepers do and we see our tortoises differently as well...oh and Sulcata are kinda like Pits...hey moderator...would ya mind deleting the extra pix? They wouldn't go for me...thx
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