This is very interesting. Two decades ago, my friend's dead star tortoise was thrown away by his mother. He was furious as he said he wanted to keep the shell. I appeased him by saying that the tortoise would undergo rotting and would be messy. We live in apartments and have no personal...
I want to update that I did took one of these, de Spine it and fed to my tortoises. Because someone broke one of the pots and I got some broken cactus. One ate it readily, while the other hesitated at first and then also ate it. Once de spine, they are like some kind of cucumbers. Anyway...
Sorry to hear that. None of the people I know who bought baby tortoises two decades ago managed to keep them alive. I think it is not easy, especially during that era without information
@Tortillo, One day, I saw that my lady tortoise was bleeding on her thumbs on both of her front legs. Both nails were like torn away. I suspected that a bird must have flown into my house and attacked her. About two years later, I could see that the nails are regrowing out of the thumbs...
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Nail cutters
Ok. I just gave my female tortoise a pedicure again last night. This time round I am more equipped with a proper small pet nails cutter. In the last cut, I used a human nails cutter scissors and it went misaligned after use. And of course my tortoise thanked me...