Look how much he's grown! (DUW)

[Floof]

The other day, I realized it had been a full 7 months since I last measured and weighed my dear little Leopard tort. Yup, I'm bad about that, I know... Anyway, he weighed in at 315 grams and 4.5" SCL! This time last year, he was only 45 grams!!! He's still TINY for supposedly being 3 years old, but he's starting to catch up...

Eeeee! My little baby is growing up! <3

SO today I finally got him out for some pics!

His pseudo outdoor grazing area. I have no real yard and I live in a crappy neighborhood (have already had to deal with a nasty case of vandalism and siphoned gas; don't need to add tortoise theft to the list!), so he's indoors-only until I move. Poor baby! He does get supervised time outside, though... Usually on this little grazing tray, so I don't have to worry about dog poop (or the case of the Disappearing Tortoise).

However, a patient tortoise, he is not. Once he gets bored of the graze...

"Bye, Ma! I'm gonna go visit the little doggies next door..."

YES, my hands are tiny, LOL!

Here's a picture from about a year ago.

Any guesses what sex he'll turn out to be?

The End! Thanks for peeking!

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Looks fantastic!

 

[mctlong]

Oooh, very pretty.

 

[wellington]

He looks great.

 

[Floof]

Thank you!

 

[Tortoise Princess]

The other day, I realized it had been a full 7 months since I last measured and weighed my dear little Leopard tort. Yup, I'm bad about that, I know... Anyway, he weighed in at 315 grams and 4.5" SCL! This time last year, he was only 45 grams!!! He's still TINY for supposedly being 3 years old, but he's starting to catch up...

Eeeee! My little baby is growing up! <3

SO today I finally got him out for some pics!

His pseudo outdoor grazing area. I have no real yard and I live in a crappy neighborhood (have already had to deal with a nasty case of vandalism and siphoned gas; don't need to add tortoise theft to the list!), so he's indoors-only until I move. Poor baby! He does get supervised time outside, though... Usually on this little grazing tray, so I don't have to worry about dog poop (or the case of the Disappearing Tortoise).

However, a patient tortoise, he is not. Once he gets bored of the graze...

"Bye, Ma! I'm gonna go visit the little doggies next door..."

YES, my hands are tiny, LOL!

Here's a picture from about a year ago.

Any guesses what sex he'll turn out to be?

The End! Thanks for peeking!

he/she has the cutest "B" and "C" pattern on the shell! cool

 

[jesst]

Looks amazing and so smooth!!

 

[l0velesly]

He's quite the beauty... love his shell pattern~

 

[kyle82tx]

very cool pattern

 

[DesertGrandma]

Very nice looking shell. Good job!!

 

[DrewsLife727]

he looks amazing!

 

[morloch]

Beautiful shell!

 

[Floof]

Thanks!! I'm very proud of how he's turning out.

I guess this thread is as good a time/place as any for another update!

Today he weighed in at 437 grams, and a hair over 5" SCL. These pics were taken over a span of a couple weeks.

I finally moved back in November! Into a house with a FENCED yard--hooray! Better yet, a house with a yard in Southern California.. Which means even in the dead of winter, many days are 70 and sunny. Before I could start work on his outdoor enclosure, I'd let him have run of the northern chunk of yard.. Supervised, of course. It didn't take him long to decide the ugly mound of dirt along the back fence is his favorite place to explore. Can you spot the tortoise?

There he is!

So, I finally started construction on his outdoor pen earlier this week. I wanted very much to take it all the way up the dirt mound, since he's so fond of mountain climbing, but it didn't work out that way. Maybe down the road, but for now he has to live with this mostly flat chunk. I still need to take an actual tape measure to it, but it's somewhere in the ballpark of 4' wide and 12' or so long. It's not close to done, but it has the basic amenities--walls, water, a hide. It's a start!

 

[MechanicMatt]

Looks like a great start to his outdoor enclosure! Wish we lived somewhere warm during the winter!

 

[Blakem]

Great looking face!

 

[Yellow Turtle]

Congratulations on moving to a nice place. And the leopard is really marvelous.

He is a pardalis pardalis, right?

 

[Elliriyanna]

Lol now you have me researching this species ... amazingly lovely and clearly well cared for

 

[Floof]

Congratulations on moving to a nice place. And the leopard is really marvelous.

He is a pardalis pardalis, right?

AFAIK, he's pardalis babcocki. All I know for sure about his history is that he was originally purchased at a pet store in Utah. Haven't had any reason to think he has any p.pardalis blood, but, then, stranger things have happened.

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Lol now you have me researching this species ... amazingly lovely and clearly well cared for

Thank you! The Leopards are great torts. Easily my favorite species so far! He just has such a great little personality. I actually feel really bad that I still haven't decided on a name for him yet..

 

[sibi]

Great looking tort. I'm glad you have a place for your baby. Get a name for him already =P

 

[Yellow Turtle]

His round figure like babcocki, but he's got two dots on his scutes. Just wonder if he's got some mixed blood.