My tortoise Pedro

I have an Amazon Basin Yellow foot tortoise. I am 57 years old and I bought my tortoise when I was 6 years old. I have had her 51 years. I was worried about her and took her to the vet and that's when I found out she is an amazon basin yellow foot. But good news, she is in excellent health. The exotics vet was in awe of her and I was really proud. He could not believe I have had her since I was 6 years old! I love animals so it did not seem strange to me. I will post a picture soon. Tommy

That's one awesome story! We are glad to have you at TFO... welcome!

Welcome to the forum . Can't wait to see pictures . Holding breath tunrning blue please help!

Tommy, glad you made it...just posted the pics of your beauty...thank you so much for bringing her in...made my day. Doc

56lbs?! That's incredible. What a beauty. How big was Pedro when you acquired her? She looks great!

She's gorgeous!!!!

Hello and Welcome. Just seen your beautiful tort on exoticsdr thread. Beautiful tort. Love how long you have had her. Wish I could have started when I was that young. Thanks for joining and sharing.

Welcome to the Forum!

Pedro looks AWSOME!

My question is : how did you last 56 yrs with only only one tort ? I've been with mine 13 yrs and I have a bunch . I feel torts are like Lays chips cannt eat just one !

Grandpa Turtle 144 said:

My question is : how did you last 56 yrs with only only one tort ?
I feel torts are like Lays chips cannt eat just one !

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hahaha funny!

Hi Tommy, and welcome to the Forum!!

You just don't know how lucky you are to live in the same area as Dr. Weston. Good tortoise vets are so few and far between. Like Jacqui, I'm curious what brought you to the vet after all these years. Was Pedro ill?

And, like Grampa, I'm curious how you only have one tortoise after all these years.

I'm glad you've joined our Forum, and hope to see you posting some tortoise antics and stories soon.

Hello Yellow foot Queen, Welcome to the forum from Houston. Pedro is a beauty and you should be very proud of the job you have done with her. Amazing.. All I could say when I saw her pics was WOW!

That is such a wonderful story ! I would love to see Pedro, but I cannot see the pictures everbody is WOW'ing about. Can you please upload again?

Jacqui said:

Hi and welcome! So for 51 years you did not know what she was? What was going on with her that made you decide to take her to a Vet? Very amazing you have had her for almost your entire life so far. That is just so neat.

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I knew "he" was a yelloefoot, I just did not know he was an "Amazon Basin" yellowfoot. About 10 years ago I discovered the remains of a couple of eggs and concluded "he" was a she. The reason I took her to the vet was she was eating less, enough that I was worried. She has spent a lot of time inside, as we had had an unusual amount of cold weather. Could not have picked a better vet for her first doctor visit as he assured me she was in great shape.




















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Team Gomberg said:

56lbs?! That's incredible. What a beauty. How big was Pedro when you acquired her? She looks great!

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She was a little bit bigger than a computer mouse, as best as I can remember.

Grandpa Turtle 144 said:

My question is : how did you last 56 yrs with only only one tort ? I've been with mine 13 yrs and I have a bunch . I feel torts are like Lays chips cannt eat just one !

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I have had many over the years, mostly local box turtles. She is the only "store bought" tortise I have ever had.

exoticsdr said:

Tommy, glad you made it...just posted the pics of your beauty...thank you so much for bringing her in...made my day. Doc

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Doc, you made my day as well, and thank you so much for your time and advice. I told my mom to find some old pics of her so hopefully I will post some soon. TD

Yvonne G said:

Hi Tommy, and welcome to the Forum!!

You just don't know how lucky you are to live in the same area as Dr. Weston. Good tortoise vets are so few and far between. Like Jacqui, I'm curious what brought you to the vet after all these years. Was Pedro ill?

And, like Grampa, I'm curious how you only have one tortoise after all these years.

I'm glad you've joined our Forum, and hope to see you posting some tortoise antics and stories soon.

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Dr Weston was awesome. I found a great vet and a cool friend at the same time.

Oh wow that's an awesome story!.