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She’s doing well
She's now living with a keeper who has a male Homeana so she can hopefully have some babies.How's it going with ol' Deirdre @jsheffield ?
That's great! I'm glad she had a right royal glow up. (Can't help to smile, you really did a stellar job!)She's now living with a keeper who has a male Homeana so she can hopefully have some babies.
Jamie
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Welcome home, Deirdre!
I drove down to Danbury, CT, to pick up this rescue tort, a hingeback, this morning.
She weighs 1477g and is 19.0 cm in length.
She's got some shell fungus and a pretty funky shell, both likely from sub-standard conditions in her previous life.
While giving her a bath and inspection and rubdown with athlete's foot cream (for the fungus), she laid two eggs, which settled the debate as to her sex.
I put her in her new home with a big handful of fresh dandelion flowers... we'll figure out other foods tomorrow.
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CraigslistJust curious... How do you guys keep finding tortoises to rescue?
I would love to try it but tortoises aren't very popular in AR and even when I find some they over price them. : (I keep checking Craigslist within 200 miles... plenty of russians and sulcatas, a few redfoots and leopards... I enjoyed rescuing those two homeanas and finding them a home with a breeding creep, and would love to do that again.
Jamie