Alex Tallberg
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Hey everyone,
My greek tortoise has, ever since I got him about 5 years ago (is born and raised in our home). His name is Cola-Petrus. This is a picture, haha. I'm sure he won't mind. http://imgur.com/soLXkw1
He's very active and brave (likes to climb and pummel at things, likes to "roll" down stairs twice the size of him, gradually, one by one). I always think that if it was in nature, he'd be a real "alpha male" tortoise. He bites everybody's feet, goes turbo-running after anything that moves, etc. So this brings me to the subject I wanted to talk about.
Every now and then he tries to mate with random objects; he seems to prefer my school backpack but he also likes the occasional used socks and boxers lying on the floor.. One thing I've noticed, it is NOT attracted to panties of women. He seems to prefer my dirty underwear. Most of the time he likes to just chill around them. It rarely gets a frenzy going on, but like I said it does happen every once in a while.
So, I'm not sure if it's a bad thing, I mean just like every other animal they surely enjoy their mating habits and I thought it's just a basic need and maybe it's just some harmless action in a tortoises boring life, so I haven't been interfering it. But why does he do this? Is it the testosterone of my sweat or something that sends it into a rage?
My greek tortoise has, ever since I got him about 5 years ago (is born and raised in our home). His name is Cola-Petrus. This is a picture, haha. I'm sure he won't mind. http://imgur.com/soLXkw1
He's very active and brave (likes to climb and pummel at things, likes to "roll" down stairs twice the size of him, gradually, one by one). I always think that if it was in nature, he'd be a real "alpha male" tortoise. He bites everybody's feet, goes turbo-running after anything that moves, etc. So this brings me to the subject I wanted to talk about.
Every now and then he tries to mate with random objects; he seems to prefer my school backpack but he also likes the occasional used socks and boxers lying on the floor.. One thing I've noticed, it is NOT attracted to panties of women. He seems to prefer my dirty underwear. Most of the time he likes to just chill around them. It rarely gets a frenzy going on, but like I said it does happen every once in a while.
So, I'm not sure if it's a bad thing, I mean just like every other animal they surely enjoy their mating habits and I thought it's just a basic need and maybe it's just some harmless action in a tortoises boring life, so I haven't been interfering it. But why does he do this? Is it the testosterone of my sweat or something that sends it into a rage?
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