Wow Tom I just caught up on this thread and I am so sorry they did that!
You save babies everyday, you couldn't save this one from their new owner but that is NOT your fault. They didn't call or reach out for help, you shipped a healthy tort responsibly that was fine for weeks under their...
I'm a tortoise newbie but I'm in the customer service business, understand client patterns, and the importance of a peaceful night of sleep. You reached out to check on the baby, more than ten days passed with no contact, and there was no indication or assistance requested if the baby was going...
Thank you! If any older ones become available or you know anyone reputable person who might have something good for our family before that time please let me know. In the meantime I'll put my order in for a new Animal Plastics enclosure per your specs :)
Hi @Tom, Do you have any SA leo babies/juveniles available? I lost mine who was 5 years last summer and we're finally ready again. I did the necropsy as you recommended. He was accidentally poisoned while we were gone which was heartbreaking but we're finally ready. Thanks so much. He was a SA...
Hi @g4mobile I was curious if you knew Tom's contact. I'm looking to see if he has any torts available but I can't figure out how to find his contact information. Thanks so much!
Oh yes, we live a block from the beach on a little walk street (our yards are in front of our homes and alleys/garages/cars in back because you can only walk down the front of our street). He only stayed in his special enclosure outside until he was about 2. Once he was allowed out of the box to...
Thank you for all the very kind posts. We're a little in shock, we have dogs and birds and have never lost an animal other than old age (past lab lived until 17, mastiff until 14, current lab is 14 1/2). The vet called back and asked about packaged lettuce given while we were on vacation...
I don't think stress, we travel for my kid's sports tournaments somewhat normally and he always had my same niece here. She said he was banging like normal when she'd come home from work and hear the dogs at the door. I honestly have no idea though, we do spend a ton of time with him but...
They called before I could even get to the vet. He didn't make it. They can't tell by looking at him that anything was obviously wrong and will need to cut into him to determine for sure. I am so heartbroken he was such a great animal. I just can't figure out what happened and how he could be...
Hi, I saw your post said that you suspected something else with the pics of my tortoise. I was curious if you could help me understand what your gut says might have gone wrong I'm really at a loss and I feel so terrible. So sorry can't figure out how to pm you.
No his shell was definitely hard, no new pyramiding (he came with some when he was small we got him when he was about 7 months and he wasn't started with the humidity) I knew to check that this morning but I didn't know to look at the height/shape of his shell. the neighbor is taking him to the...
Okay, I'll turn off the extra heat in his enclosure and make it dark for him. We were on a family vacation and returned Thursday night, our niece stayed at our house while we were gone as she usually does. We woke up and played with him and put him outside Friday morning for the day which he...