) and brought them back to her classroom where she raised them both in a playpen for 15 years. It took me about a year to get her to give them to me so they could have a better life. I also rescued a Boxie from her that she kept on sand without any plants or hide. She had no heat on any of her tortoises. When I did buy a heat lamp for the Boxie someone took it out of her room when she wasn't there. The good news is that now the Boxie has a wonderful home with one of the members on TFO. My only regret is that I couldn't get her to give up the Red Eared Slider (about 11 inches) because she thought that the kids liked to feed it and she didn't want to take that away from them. From what my son found out it died last year. I don't know which was the saddest to witness.
