I am back a few hours and I am already looking at the poor babies that need a home. My husband would kill me. We have too many pets now. Not to mention ourl kids girl/boy additional friends staying here too. We have a full house. Will power - don't look at the ads, don't look at the ads, don't...
Was cleaning the RES pond yesterday and realized it had been awhile since I had made the time to sign in to TFO and see what was going on in the tort/turt world. Glad to see somethings don't change. Was surprised I hadn't been here in almost a year and a half. Where did that time go? That means...
I was weeding the garden and was thinking about how much mallow I was throwing away and thought how someone else would love to have this growing in their yard.I would love it somewhere else. Not in the vege garden. I still have to plant my squash this weekend.
I wish it would grow in...
I stopped at the small pet store near me that specializes in reptiles and was looking at what torts and turtles they had while waiting for my feeder fish and crickets. I ended up talking to a customer who was looking at a sulcata hatchling and also juvenile russians they had for sale. I politely...
I know this will catch Maggie's eye.
What are we die hard NASCAR fans gonna do until February. We might have to actually finish the list of "stuff I need to do" we set up for every weekend then only get half done because the race starts?
Watch the reruns of NASCAR related shows on speed...
I realize this is a few days late but Happy belated Thanksgiving to all.
I thought I would share my latest leftover creation recipe. I was fortunate I did not have to cook for Thanksgiving. We went to my MIL house .and my MIL said to bring a pie and a side dish. She actually had me bring...
Well, I have been crazy at work and disorganized and feeling overwhelmed, so I haven't done more than occasionally lurk and read a few posts lately. I did post on a thread about spiders when I had Fred die by what appeared to be a brown widow spider bite (he was in a corner covered in web) I...
A conversation that came up last Sat at the 2nd Annual So Cal TFO get together is that very few people have put in their profile what city and state they live in. But one of the first questions asked when someone posts for help on almost any subject is "Where do you live?" We wondered why people...
I can be taught and I pay attention. :D
I was at a customer's house doing an inspection and I saw they had a 4" DT in an enclosure next to the garage and several man made rock burrows and tort dug burrows in the rest of the backyard. Which appeared to have been tort escape proofed. I said...
Well I have been a little busy getting ready for our vacation and then I had a terrible intermittent internet connection when were on vacation (so much for that verizon commercial)
A few weeks ago my daughter convinced my husband to let her go get a chocolate lab that was at the local pound...
The Foothill Chapter of the CTTC sent out this email. I thought that with all the members in the area I would pass it along. Keep your eyes and ears open.
Lost SULCATA Tortoise - Alhambra Area / San Gabriel Valley - Lost
Saturday, April 18th - He got out of his pen and wandered off - He was...
Well today was a beautiful day, so I put all the kids outside to get some real sun. I noticed that Jefferson seemed a little softer than yesterday and a little more lethargic, but he has been eating, and moving around the enclosure as normal for him. He also seemed to be on the road to recovery...
I want to thank everyone who has posted in the last 2 days. :D I have been on Jury Duty (back there tomorrow) :( and this site has given my brain some therapy after a long boring day sitting at a courthouse. Anyone else notice that the posts and pics make their day a little or alot better after...
Okay, my 12 year old son has a science project he has to do on the 8 levels of classification of an organism, not a dog, cat or human. He (of course) picked the Desert Tortoise. Anyone with any input would be appreciated. A good grade is very necessary in science. He has to do a poster board and...
Well it was a late day at work so I got to my friends at dusk and the female sulcata and the unknown female had gone to bed. The male DT was out though. I have pics of him and of the Sulcata from last month.
Male DT - She has had him 16-18 years
Female Sulcata - 7-8 years old
Okay...
Okay I am confused. (Not a new occurrence :P) I have seen posts about growth on carpaces being white lines between the scutes and then I posted pics of the kids (dark growth lines) and was told the new growth on a desert tortoise is usually lighter.
Then I saw these pics of a Sulcata and...
I was told today that my friend wants to give me the kids siblings. As you can see in the picture there were three. Unfortunately one has died. She said that due to work (trying not to lose her business, working 7 days a week) she has not been taking as good of care of them as she should and...
For those who don't know in January, Doris got her plastron cracked by my dog. Afew days after the injury, the vet had "bondoed" her to seal the crack. Well her patch came loose and I was worried about debris getting under it so I peeled it off. I soaked her and did it over 2 days to reduce the...
I got an email from CTTC with some interesting DT info links- (oops forgot about the meeting last night)
http://www.westernwatersheds.org/news-media/news-release/tortoise-noi
http://www.dpcinc.org/_new/images/EB/EB08-4.pdf
Thought someone else might like to read them. :)
Dawna
1. Pay off all those bills the mailman has figured out how to put in our locked mailbox. :D
2. Make an offer on the house we're renting that the landlord can't refuse.
3. Do all the remodeling I keep saying I would do if I owned this house.
4. Build my vacation/retirement house in AZ.
5...