Fluffybunny54
Mama Doe
I thought you might like something different on such a lousy bank holiday. These two always make me smile. By the way, they are real torts. Biggest one is 50+ and smaller one is 30.
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These two are Hermann's Mediterranean Torts. They could live up to 100 years. The Galapogus tortoises can live over 200 years. Speedy the smallest one, we've had over 30 years. Tansy, the bigger one, 50 +, used to come to us on her hols. My friend asked me if I would keep her permanently. They live in a 4ft rabbit hutch, which is heated and insulated. They have the run of the garden. But today, they've just gone back indoors. It's horrible for them today.
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Yes. They're also in Spain, Italy, France, etc. I had one as a child, I'm ashamed to say. It cost 7 shillings and 6 pence from a pet shop. Only lasted 2 years.Are they the ones you see roaming wild in the hills in Greece?
I love tortoises, too. Don't know what it is about them ...
Do you have to hibernate them in a fridge?
They are fabulous
I thought you might like something different on such a lousy bank holiday. These two always make me smile. By the way, they are real torts. Biggest one is 50+ and smaller one is 30.
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Lovely, lovely tortoises.
I should take more photos of my girl. She's a youngster compared to yours though! Only approx. 20. (and also a Horsefields. We don't hibernate her.)
Thank you, Jane. I love them both. My rabbits don't take much notice of them, although the torts tend to amble up to the rabbits. They like a good march around the garden.
We never hibernated Speedy because we always felt that they don't naturally hibernate, they just go into torpor at night in their country of origin. My friend was devastated that he lost Tansy's pal last year. I hope staying warm and awake this winter will agree with her.They really are great. I have a Herman who I've had for over 40 years and he wasn't a baby when we got him. His friend is a spur-thighed who is a similar age. Neither of them hibernate either. When they visit me, all my rabbits are/Have been totally uninterested.....save for their food....
You should take lots of photos of your girl. Mainly as a security measure. Top shell and bottom shell. Hubby put a locking bar across their house because they are being stolen, all over the country. The poor things keep turning up in airport luggage because the wild ones are being smuggled from all over the world. All tortoises are on the CITES list and are extremely endangered. They don't make the easiest pets to keep. There are gangs who are smuggling thousands of them. It's so sad. It's amazing that they were around 250 million years before the dinosaurs.
Yes. We're very lucky that we have fantastic vets over here who are very good with all exotics. Our tortoises like tinned garden peas, romaine lettuce, sweetheart cabbage, herbs, apple, grated carrot, you name it, they'll try it. They'll also eat grass, over ripe pear and over ripe strawberries and any weeds.Aww - love them. I have a good chat with a customer today about tortoises (all his healthy stuff was for her) . I was so surprised at how long they can live and so many species (60+ he said). We even got in a chat about exotic vets [emoji38]