cyclura28 said:People breed Sulcatas for me.
Hi Cyclura28:
When you get a chance, we'd love for you to go to the introduction section and tell us a bit about yourself and your tortoise. And pictures, of course...we LOVE pictures!
cyclura28 said:People breed Sulcatas for me.
Meg90 said:Seriously. I am anti idiocy. And it runs rampant in the reptile world.
I will have a sulcata when I have the space. Would I buy one now living in an apartment? NO. But that is the most common excuse when people dump these animals. As if its a surprise that they grew so large.
I don't see sulcata without pyramiding. I'm in WI and I have yet to meet another keeper at an expo, or online that has a smooth CB sully.
Go ahead. Post your KS add. I would LOVE to see pictures of these hundreds upon hundreds of smoothly domed adult sulcatas. Please, post the results where everyone can see them.
-EJ said:As usual... much of this information is taken out of context. For this to be a viable thread you would have to know how many were produced to how many that were abused or orphaned to get a proper perspective of the situation.
Candy said:Actually Dan we bought a Sulcata and then went home and googled it. We bought it because the 18 year old guy at the pet store liked them. He thought they were the most interesting tortoise because they're fun. When we got home I googled it and the next day we went back and exchanged it for Dale. I think it just scared me too much. Actually now that I think back about it we could have raised a Sulcata we do have the backyard for one, but we love Dale.
dannomite said:First of all to everyone I dont have much to offer to this debate but I have to admit I had an amazing 30 mins reading this Thread!...I don't have TV at home so I get a lot of my daily drama from tortoiseforum.org (just a joke no harm intended)! The one thing I can say to the argument that there is so many older tortoises that are pyramided and deformed is thank god we now have the internet. Lets not forget that this technology and the access to information is a relatively new thing for this world. I understand the argument that there is a lot of deformed adult sulcatas, but don't you think that nowadays with this powerful tool we use every day that we may see a lot of nice healthy Adult Sulcatas as our little ones grow and reach maturity? It is ignorant to buy a pet that you have no knowledge of, but I seriously do not know many people who don't "Google" something before they make a decision. If people Google sulcata, then decide to get one then in the future its too big and they claim they didn't know...that to me is just a lie....how could you not know?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sulcata
I know that kind of strays away from the topic of breeding sulcatas....but I just think the argument of all the pyramiding and deformed adult sulcatas is because that was a different time, with much less access to information. I am convinced that the majority of Sulcatas being raised now will be raised in better conditions because there is so much info now. Am I delusional? Or does that sound valid?
Worst case scenario we can just eat them all right? I mean we'll have a food shortage eventually (relax im kidding!)