Show me your red foot babies ??

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

Pumpkin is a very nice looking Redfoot.

Thank you. She sure is a little beauty. I can’t help but watch her roam around and foraging etc. It’s weirdly relaxing

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Thank you. She sure is a little beauty. I can’t help but watch her roam around and foraging etc. It’s weirdly relaxing

I can totally relate. I can sit and watch my torts do tort stuff for hours. They probably think I'm a weirdo.

 

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

I can totally relate. I can sit and watch my torts do tort stuff for hours. They probably think I'm a weirdo.

?. I keep trying to get good pics of her eating. But every time I try and snap the picture she stops eating. And I get that “better luck next time” look. They are so cheeky.

 

[Srmcclure]

It didn’t attach to first reply ooops

So freaking cute!!!!

Happt bday btw ?

 

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

So freaking cute!!!!

Happt bday btw ?

Thank you ?

 

[Srmcclure]

This is the only one I have like that ?

 

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

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This is the only one I have like that ?

Ha that’s a face of disgust ? for disturbing feeding time ?. Adorable tho. I’m still trying.
mum just looking up where I can get a hand non contact gun thermometer for a better idea on heating. I don’t trust the digital ones.

 

[Golden Greek Tortoise 567]

I love how redfoots have a grumpy face, it’s just so cute!!!

 

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

I love how redfoots have a grumpy face, it’s just so cute!!!

Haha I know right.
Oooh while your online can I pick at your brain ?

 

[Olivertort1]

Here’s my Pumpkin. Chilling on my chest. I interact as much as I can to build trust and bond. I had a lady over road saying it was over kill and I’ll ruin the tortoise by interacting with the tort the way I do. I hold her/him while I’m sorting the fresh food out. Same when I’m spot cleaning. When pumpkin is eating sleeping or soaking I’ll leave her/him to it. But I do observe when soaking. She/he has a shallow pool in enclosure. I’ll sit in garden so pumpkin can roam about. I won’t leave him/her unattended when outside as pumpkin is only 4months. Am I doing wrong?

I would love to see your red foot babies. Pumpkin is in photo attached chilling on my chest this morning while waiting for the yummy greens ?

My 2 babies from Southern reptiles. They are about 8 mon

Here’s my Pumpkin. Chilling on my chest. I interact as much as I can to build trust and bond. I had a lady over road saying it was over kill and I’ll ruin the tortoise by interacting with the tort the way I do. I hold her/him while I’m sorting the fresh food out. Same when I’m spot cleaning. When pumpkin is eating sleeping or soaking I’ll leave her/him to it. But I do observe when soaking. She/he has a shallow pool in enclosure. I’ll sit in garden so pumpkin can roam about. I won’t leave him/her unattended when outside as pumpkin is only 4months. Am I doing wrong?

I would love to see your red foot babies. Pumpkin is in photo attached chilling on my chest this morning while waiting for the yummy greens ?

my two babies, now about 8 months old, from Southern Reptiles. They stay in this tub on the enclosed deck at night and go out in the grass for a few hours a day once the yard has some shade in a pen my husband made. They do have a little hide he built for the tub, took it out for picture. I am in Charleston SC so humidity is high right now.

 

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

My 2 babies from Southern reptiles. They are about 8 mon

my two babies, now about 8 months old, from Southern Reptiles. They stay in this tub on the enclosed deck at night and go out in the grass for a few hours a day once the yard has some shade in a pen my husband made. They do have a little hide he built for the tub, took it out for picture. I am in Charleston SC so humidity is high right now.

awww little beauties

 

[Terri123]

I know they don’t bond. It’s more the trust side of things.
I pick pumpkin up always make sure her feet are touching me so her legs are never dangling if that makes sense. She never puts her head in. She walks to my shoulder. Head always out. She doesn’t pull back in to her shell which I thought she would do. I give her a little scratch under her chin which she seems to enjoy. Then I’ll had feed her some watercress. I don’t hold pumpkin long. Maybe a few mins at a time. I put her back in her enclosure and she will sit at the front watching me before she spots the food and walks as fast as she can to it ?

OK, sorry to rain on the parade that turtles "get stressed when handled" but my toby has been with me for over 9 years, he is a 3 toed box turtle and my daughter and I interact with him, all the time, and he is super interactive, and super healthy, he eats well, he "plays with his slippers" daily (he has slippers that he likes to carry around, and push around - I kid you not), he sometimes follows me around the house, sometimes not. Toby makes eye contact, like your pumpkin, and is a super social turtle, who has developed bonds with me, my daughter, and my partner (when I was away, apparently he wouldn't walk around the house... he just sat, in my slipper (again, I'm not kidding... new slipper) for hours at a time. So, because of my personal experience, and maybe Toby is unique, but I don't "buy" this business about turtles not being interactive. Turtles are curious, intelligent, and can be social, too (in their own way, and on their terms)

 

[Terri123]

Here’s pumpkin today enjoying her soak ?.

she is so cute!!

 

[Golden Greek Tortoise 567]

Tortoises may seem ok with it, or they may be used to it. But they all feel better with all feet on the ground. Both your torts seen to be ok and used to handling. Torts don‘t bond with owners, they don’t seek human companionship like other mammals. In the wild they are solitary, and that is their natural habitat.

 

[Terri123]

ummm that's a picture of Toby, he wanted some attention, but I was busy eating, so he sauntered away, shortly after. I might have a super unique tort, but he has bonded with me, my daughter, and my partner (he is shy around other people, although if someone speaks to him, he typically approaches them and makes eye contact, before he returns to his house...

 

[Terri123]

OK, sorry to rain on the parade that turtles "get stressed when handled" but my toby has been with me for over 9 years, he is a 3 toed box turtle and my daughter and I interact with him, all the time, and he is super interactive, and super healthy, he eats well, he "plays with his slippers" daily (he has slippers that he likes to carry around, and push around - I kid you not), he sometimes follows me around the house, sometimes not. Toby makes eye contact, like your pumpkin, and is a super social turtle, who has developed bonds with me, my daughter, and my partner (when I was away, apparently he wouldn't walk around the house... he just sat, in my slipper (again, I'm not kidding... new slipper) for hours at a time. So, because of my personal experience, and maybe Toby is unique, but I don't "buy" this business about turtles not being interactive. Turtles are curious, intelligent, and can be social, too (in their own way, and on their terms)

See my picture below, when Toby wanted some attention, but I was ignoring him as I was busy having my lunch

 

[Toddrickfl1]

OK, sorry to rain on the parade that turtles "get stressed when handled" but my toby has been with me for over 9 years, he is a 3 toed box turtle and my daughter and I interact with him, all the time, and he is super interactive, and super healthy, he eats well, he "plays with his slippers" daily (he has slippers that he likes to carry around, and push around - I kid you not), he sometimes follows me around the house, sometimes not. Toby makes eye contact, like your pumpkin, and is a super social turtle, who has developed bonds with me, my daughter, and my partner (when I was away, apparently he wouldn't walk around the house... he just sat, in my slipper (again, I'm not kidding... new slipper) for hours at a time. So, because of my personal experience, and maybe Toby is unique, but I don't "buy" this business about turtles not being interactive. Turtles are curious, intelligent, and can be social, too (in their own way, and on their terms)

They are food driven and they quickly learn where the food comes from. What we interpret as Bonding or wanting attention is them saying Feed me.

 

[Terri123]

Maybe... but my daughter doesn't feed toby, and neither does my partner. So, why does Toby go to them? And, why does he play with his favourite slippers, for an hour every day ? that's play behaviour. Not related to food, at all. And why does he come up to me, for attention, several times during the day (when I allow him to roam the house freely) then saunter away (I only feed him, once, in the evening). By the way, this didn't happen overnight. His "bonding behaviour" started several years ago, it took about 5 years for us to develop this relationship. So... I know yours the prevailing view but in my situation, it doesn't seem to be an accurate understanding of the relationship between my family and this little reptile.

 

[Mystic_Queen (Llaria)]

They are food driven and they quickly learn where the food comes from. What we interpret as Bonding or wanting attention is them saying Feed me.

Haha yes pumpkin sure loves her food. When I walk past her enclosure she will follow me from one end to the other. Then will wait till I walk back. So I open her enclosure and give her a little scratch under her chin. She pops her head out as far as she can. I’m guessing this is so I hit the right spot ?.
She will then toddle off to her slate plate and carry on munching dandelions and other greens before going to her Hide.

 

[Golden Greek Tortoise 567]

I’m not going to start the lecture about how it’s dangerous to let a tort run freely in the house but humans feed him, so he asks all humans for food.