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Hey TFO! I haven't been as active as I would like around here lately, but instead I have been spending countless hours out in the craziness that is the Facebook groups advocating for what basically boils down to TFO care practices. It's sometimes frustrating, but also rewarding to know that...

The more I become comfortable around here the more I'm probably becoming known as a little bit of a wise-***. I would never do it to be mean, I do it because I truly believe humor is a way to brighten ones day, and for some reason I keep expecting others to find me as funny as I find myself...

Okay I have been meaning to ask this for weeks now, but I have been so insanely busy. Somewhere about a month ago I finally upgraded Winchester's table. When I rescued him he was in a 2'x3' table with dry wood chips for substrate and no hide. He spent the better part of the first month and...

Just to be clear, I absolutely consider myself a rookie tortoise keeper. I acquired my first tortoise less than a year ago and in that time, thanks to this site, I have learned so much. I personally think my knowledge level is way ahead of the curve for how for how little time I've owned...

Very short intro for those who don't know me. My name is Brandon. I got into tortoises about a year ago and have been in free fall ever since. We spent three years researching and decided a red foot would be for us. Then we came across a cute little sulcata hatchling...

Michigan has several native Hawks and they aren't exactly uncommon, but this is one of the big reasons my outdoor enclosures for my Russian and for my sulcata baby are covered in hardware cloth. This morning though after putting my pair of five year old sulcatas out into their pens for the day I...

Male or Female? I'm struggling to see the difference. And that is a sentence I never thought I would say out loud. Honestly though, let's kill two birds with one stone. One, you can maybe help me identify these guys if it's not too early, and secondly and much more important maybe you can...

Hannibal here was a junior high school office pet. He has been set up on a table in a school office for the last five years. It was a 2x3 table, with no hide, has been fed an less than ideal diet, and has never really seen sunshine. At the beginning of summer they put up an ad on craigslist...

Not being familiar with the species I browsed the care sheets and bombarded the owner with questions. Here is what I know. He/she was kept in a middle school office as a school pet for the last two years. Apparently a change to the office is reducing space and they decided they can't keep...

I don't know where my obsession with snapping turtles began, but I've been borderline obsessed with them for as long as I remember. My ex wife wouldn't let me have one, and my current girlfriend is less than excited about the idea. Ever since getting our first tortoise this obsession has...

I have had my tortoise for two and half months now and somehow this little hockey puck has become my biggest past time. So maybe I'm overdue for a progress thread and place to share some of my pictures of Mr T and his extended animal family. First thing first, I acknowledge I have zero way of...

Okay I've had my baby (Mr T) for just over one month now. I started out the first week or so doing things fairly wrong thanks to bad advice and failure on my part. I fixed most of the dire problems, but the one I haven't fixed yet is the size of his enclosure. It is way to small. So I have...

Hello. The girlfriend and I are borderline animal hoarders. Well that isn't entirely fair the title animal hoarder tends to bring up images of people that have too many pets to the point that they can't adequately take care of them. We aren't to that point yet. In fact I believe I take care...