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    Torts wont eat

    Hi. Thank you for your advice. I am aware keeping them together is not recommended but I inherited these 2 and they have lived together for 50 years before that. I agree they need more room in tort table but had to get them up early this year as one had mouth rot. Once weather improves, they go...
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    Torts wont eat

    Hi. 2 80 year old hermanns been awake early in Jan so tort table in my living room but not loads of room but weather in UK still too cold for them to go outside. After waking up they were seen by vet and given ok but last few weeks they wont eat properly and are endlessly restless. I am bathing...
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    Paperwork for transporting torts from ireland to uk post brexit

    Thank you!! I totally agree re validation. I have spend fun hours (which I will never get back!) On bureaucrat 'central' but not clear guidance (quelle surprise!!) and figured tips might come also from seasoned sellers like yourself!?
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    Paperwork for transporting torts from ireland to uk post brexit

    Help! I have been chasing around for clear guidance on what papers I need to bring 2 pet tortoises home from ireland into uk. I have been bouncing around from APHA and Gov.uk sites and everywhere else to find requirements without success. Anyone with insight to post brexit papers..Please help me...
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    Remote owner - your help please

    thank you so much. I look forward to 'travel' somewhere ....even if this is just a learning journey!! :) :tort::)o_O:tort:
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    Remote owner - your help please

    Thank you. It seems obvious already that my knowledge starts and ends at spelling the word 'tortoise'! Until I sort out passports, I am not even in the same country! B(uk)
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    Remote owner - your help please

    Sorry but....plastron? Will go and google it now. Thank you
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    Remote owner - your help please

    Crikey! Where to start. One tortoise was bought from a garden centre around 45 years ago..it wasnt a baby tort even then..that is leading tortoise. The other lady was passed on by a neighbour so they could be company for each other- some git had drilled a hole on edge of shell so she could be...
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    Remote owner - your help please

    Hi I'm B and I am a Remote Tort Owner - Parents retired to Ireland from UK. There are 2 torts called 'The Girls'. I have now inherited them. They are in Ireland and I'm in UK. I am looking at paperwork now needed to bring them home due to brexit - nightmare!. Always been in my life (I'm now...
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