N2TORTS said:Price has no reflection of where your heart is ! :shy:
Couldn't agree more with you Jeff!
N2TORTS said:Price has no reflection of where your heart is ! :shy:
jareeed2 said:Madkins007 said:With the second set of photos, I think I would call this one a pure or at least a 'mostly' Northern. While it does have some 'cherry' characteristics, they are not 'strongly' cherry and from what I can tell from my research, the plastron is sort of the trump card- not a Brazilian if it is a light plastron.
Lol your killing me madkins
Kasper2reds said:Looks like u been had...
This is my redfoot
This is my cherry
And side by side
Madkins007 said:Sorry! It really bugs me that so many people are sticking the term 'cherry head' to little colorful red-footeds to boost the prices. They do the same with 'dwarf' as well and that is even more of a scam.
The ORIGINAL cherry-heads were named in 1984 by an employee at a major US distributor when they opened a shipment of extra colorful red-heads from a new source. The little guys were a brilliant red and very distinctive- very unlike previous shipments. At the time, the term just defined the coloration. Since then, we have slowly developed a better understanding of the group. (https://sites.google.com/site/tortoiselibrary/red-foots/red-footed--cherry-head )
So now we have a situation where anyone can call a colorful red-footed a 'cherry head' with impunity since it really does not mean anything. We've got people with mixed herds letting Brazilians and Northerns interbreed and sticking whatever label they want on the babies. We've got people sorting pure baby Northerns and calling the colorful ones 'cherry heads', and so on.
It is really sad that such a cool animal has such a confused background!
jareeed2 said:Lol "ive been had" what does that mean?
Unfortunate that it happened but oh well.. Hea a really cool tort.. But. Noww when the timecomes in a few years do i let this one breeed with Northerns, or a cherry?
DixieParadise said:From the last picture with the dog, I say Cherryhead...but does that really matter. He is a good looking tort as everyone else has said. I am glad you have such a wonderful girlfriend, who thought enough of you to get you this wonderful creature. Congrats to you all.... Also agree with Terry, love that golden nose.