Heardofturtles
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- Jun 10, 2015
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The original point of this thread was to gather opinions/input on thoughts of painting a tortoise shell on a living tortoise. My story was shared simply to point out there are no correct..exact...answer to that inquiry. I shared that I personally know a tortoise will survive if painted with non toxic paint...period.
Then I further elaborated that even though I know this personally from a childhood experience ..I as an adult would not do the painting now...period.
I then further described a living situation in which the tortoise in my story lived..and lived very much kike tortoise royalty..in that he had the run of his own yard and my Grandmothers home as his own...and did so for a ton of years...no luck involved...period.
Designed to do...this clearly is a reference to a species designed to brumate in the wild as part of a healthy and complete cycle of life...some species of torts are built to include brumation..period. I am a firm believer that a tortoise who would brumate naturally should be offered that same opportunity in a forced captive life. I have taken time to reiterate my points and clarify my meaning of those points here...it is very easy to review any and all posts and threads from each member...not only is my opinion on brumation shared but there are also valuable opinions within those threads from other members...
Thanks for clarifying your opinion...