Need help identifying my tortoise specie
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What part of the world are you in?
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Maggie Cummings
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I think it's a Gopherus species. It's a beautiful tortoise. But I must warn you, I am always wrong LOL Super Moderator will come on and tell the correct species.
Hi Su, and welcome to the Forum!
That's a big old desert tortoise. He's a beauty! If you post a picture of his underside we'll let you know if he's a he or a she.
A couple years ago I adopted out a big desert tortoise with pink paint on its back just like yours. Do you know where they got the tortoise?
That's a big old desert tortoise. He's a beauty! If you post a picture of his underside we'll let you know if he's a he or a she.
A couple years ago I adopted out a big desert tortoise with pink paint on its back just like yours. Do you know where they got the tortoise?
It really is a beautiful tortoise, absolutely perfect. 
Here's the bottom side (this pic was taken post bath.) Thanks so much everyone for the warm welcome.
Sorry don't know where he/she came from. Disclaimer, weird story to follow. I lost my father in 2005 to a car accident. A month later while at work some coworkers told me told me they saw a turtle walking underneath my car. So I later looked myself and nothing was there. Later on that day after I got home my mother opened the front door and found this turtoise on our doorstep. So yep, this turtoise will forever remind me of the character Robert Deniro played in Cape Fear hanging underneath my car while I'm driving home from work which was about 3 miles from home. TMI I know but true story nevertheless. After I told my mom about what happened I didn't have the heart to go around asking neighbors if they lost a turtoise.
Sorry don't know where he/she came from. Disclaimer, weird story to follow. I lost my father in 2005 to a car accident. A month later while at work some coworkers told me told me they saw a turtle walking underneath my car. So I later looked myself and nothing was there. Later on that day after I got home my mother opened the front door and found this turtoise on our doorstep. So yep, this turtoise will forever remind me of the character Robert Deniro played in Cape Fear hanging underneath my car while I'm driving home from work which was about 3 miles from home. TMI I know but true story nevertheless. After I told my mom about what happened I didn't have the heart to go around asking neighbors if they lost a turtoise.
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Maggie Cummings
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Don't mean to brag, but woo hoo!!!!! I finally got one right. He looks pretty old to me. Did you trim his toe nails?
That's a female desert tortoise. At one time in her life a dog chewed off the front part of her shell underneath. It would be extraordinary for her to weigh 30lbs.
Never, do they look too long?
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