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My name is Adam and I have just joined this forum. We live in the Fort Worth area in Texas, relocated here 2 years ago from San Diego. About 10 years ago my girlfriend (back then) and I purchased 2 baby spur thigh tortoises. They were tiny and both of them fit in the palm of your hand together. Well fast forward to now and that girlfriend is now my wife. We moved out to Texas to get closer to her family. We have a home on about a half acre of land that is heavily wooded. We have a couple of boys, a couple dogs, a bunch of cats, and 11 hens. I took about 4000 square feet out back that is fenced off and has several citrus trees for the torts. The torts we had from babies have been with us the entire time. We actually had a male and female. Having all that room to roam was great for them. Unfortunately about 5 months ago we had a tragedy. Our boys are 6 and 7 and we were having a party for one of them. The next day we found the male dead. We took him to the vet and it turned out he had been stood on. So then we went to the parents of each boy and found out that one of the boys had gotten out back to where they were out and stood on him. It broke all of our hearts. Our 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up and I think it would be pretty neat to get another spur thigh. (I guess they are also known as sulcatta) Ideally if I could find a male in the same age range as the female it would be awesome but I am not picky.
Anyways that is my story... I guess I will put a post up in the for sale area but if anyone knows of where I could adopt or purchase one then I will go that route.
Anyways that is my story... I guess I will put a post up in the for sale area but if anyone knows of where I could adopt or purchase one then I will go that route.