Should I Rescue?

[TammyJ]

All the best of luck to you and the tortoise! It's so good of you to care and want to do the right thing.

 

[Tom]

I think that's unhelpful too.

Quite the contrary, I think letting people know upfront that it isn't going to work is helpful. Watching them flounder, learn the hard way, spend a fortune on an exercise in futility, and then end up having to find someone willing to take their large tortoise is unhelpful.