Timmy the tortoise

[Yourlocalpoet]

My mum cut this story out of the guardian the other day and posted it to me, so I thought I'd share it with you lovely, lovely people.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/12/timmy-tortoise-tanya-plastic-toy

 

[Missy]

Cute story, thanks for sharing.

 

[movealongmosey]

Aw thats so sweet!

 

[shellfreak]

reminds me of the story about owen and mazee. the hippo and galp tortoise...

 

[hali]

awww bless

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Timmy pushes lettuce to the plastic tort and kisses her?

 

[Homerist]

Wow, powerful quote from Lao Tze.
Thanks for sharing Terry.

Timmy pushes lettuce to the plastic tort and kisses her?

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Wow, powerful quote from Lao Tze.
Thanks for sharing Terry.

Timmy pushes lettuce to the plastic tort and kisses her?

Lao Tzu (also called Lao Tze, Laosi, Laocius or Laotzi, depending on who you talk to) had a lot to teach us.

 

[agiletorts]

Nice story. And who said that all tortoises are solitary animal?

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

I have to admit that I was VERY skeptical...until I saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSdPRsVxlcw

 

[Stephanie Logan]

Why are the Bloors members of TFO? I want to know about their tortoise collection and see photos of that huge herd.

Maybe they are on Shelled Warriors.

This story should give pause to all you meanny anti-anthropomorphists (Gary!--I haven't forgotten).

 

[stells]

Joy doesn't take part on any of the forums... but here is the website for the tortoise garden... http://www.thetortoisegarden.co.uk/

 

[Stephanie Logan]

Why are the Bloors members of TFO?

Of course, I meant "aren't".

 

[stells]

I can't read as i read it as aren't lol

 

[tglazie]

What a nice Hermanns. I have a black Testudo ibera male that will fight anything put in his enclosure, even his own hatchling children. Some male ibera will relent after they've chased away their contenders; some will reserve their violence during certain seasons. Not Graeculus. I've even placed a marble tortoise replica in the enclosure with him, and he won't hesitate to attack it, then rigorously hump it when he feels it has had enough. I placed him in an enclosure with his two year old son, warming them following their hibernation. He wasn't out of the fridge for more than twenty minutes when he raised himself to go strike his recently emerged son. He's the biggest jerk I've ever met from the tortoise world, and I adore him.

T.G.