Did you know that it is a federal crime to return a desert tortoise to it's natural environment after it has been in captivity? Cuzzin Eddy and I saw this tortoise get released by it's previous owner near our daughter's school. Dumping captive tortoises back into the wild is a big NO NO because of the germs that we humans carry on us gets transferred to them and they can carry it back into the natural tortoise population and possibly wipe them out. The biggest problem that baby tortoises face for the first 7 years of life is the raven/black crow. Because the baby's shells are relatively soft until they are 7 the crows will peck through the shell and kill the baby.

We have now officially adopted her and her name is Holly and she is aboout 10 years old

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She is like a cat, but with a shell. She loves a good head scratch, and her favorite food is grapes. She also eats broccoli, a little red leaf lettuce, spinich, brussell sprouts and cabbage.

Hi Holly, uncle esHo here

That was cool of you guys. I've wanted one of those for while now.

My grandparents had a desert tortoise when I was growing up. His name was Speedy

Speedy was awesome. I don't know what he did all day, but he would come strolling up to the back patio once or twice a day and I would feed him lettuce and other veggies. Then one day he never returned. I think he was out cruising around and a neighbor probably took him

That is way cool. He looks healthy. A happy home.

we had one growing up his name was MR BIG ROCK!

turtle power! turtles are sooo cool!

Friend of mine had a turtle, it laid eggs, they gave the babies away. They kept one....called it bullet. They drank alot of coors light. It was neat. Turtles are cool.

We used to have 2 turtles when I was growing up. They loved to eat Hibiscus (sp) flowers.

we had two as well the are great pets ours loved rose pedals and would eat them right from your hand. that one looks great very healthy

Because of this recent cold snap (it's been 29 at night) she has now hibernated. We keep her in a storage tote with crushed coconut shell (it's reptile bedding) and she has burrowed into it. Up until 2 days ago it was hard for her to go to sleep for the winter because it has been 80 in the day and 60 or so at night.

I live in a ZOO,




oh yea she stays up all night barking and howling

That was very nice of youq guys!!!

Hot damn what a beauty groundhog. Thank you soooo much for bringing her into Slap's Hood. Ain't no better place to hang out. Ya know what, Slap thinks she can probably dune faster than a few of the folks here on the board. YEEEEEEHHHAAWWWWW. Slap is throwin a couple jabs for fun.

Great job. Take good care of her, feed her well, and sing her a soft tune.