I'm leaning toward calling this MORE government abuse and theft, BUT I do not think we are getting the whole story AND there is a lot of inconsistency from one article to the next.
There are a lot of details that I would need to hear before I made up my mind on this one.
How big were the enclosures?
Were these temporary while he was building something else? He hadn't lived there for long and they obviously could not live outside over winter. The man must have had SOMETHING planned and in the works.
The fiberglass patches don't bother me. Open wounds with no visible sign of vet treatment WOULD bother me.
The guy has kept them alive for 15 years. He must be doing something right. No tortoise will survive 15 years with the type of bad care insinuated by these articles. Makes me reconsider all the other "facts" they are reporting too. Like the greatly fluctuating weights. They are clearly just making up a weight that sounds good to them. What else are they making up?
Yeah. This one definitely sounds fishy if you really look at it...
If you come to my ranch after a rain, you will find puddles like that one and worse. And that "moaning sound is very familiar around my place too. I could also take pics showing parts of my enclosures that would give the appearance of them being too small, when in fact, they are quite large.
9 times out of 10 the "authorities" are not our friends. Is this the one time, or one of the 9 times? I can't make that call without much more info and much more believable/reliable info.
There are a lot of details that I would need to hear before I made up my mind on this one.
How big were the enclosures?
Were these temporary while he was building something else? He hadn't lived there for long and they obviously could not live outside over winter. The man must have had SOMETHING planned and in the works.
The fiberglass patches don't bother me. Open wounds with no visible sign of vet treatment WOULD bother me.
The guy has kept them alive for 15 years. He must be doing something right. No tortoise will survive 15 years with the type of bad care insinuated by these articles. Makes me reconsider all the other "facts" they are reporting too. Like the greatly fluctuating weights. They are clearly just making up a weight that sounds good to them. What else are they making up?
Yeah. This one definitely sounds fishy if you really look at it...
If you come to my ranch after a rain, you will find puddles like that one and worse. And that "moaning sound is very familiar around my place too. I could also take pics showing parts of my enclosures that would give the appearance of them being too small, when in fact, they are quite large.
9 times out of 10 the "authorities" are not our friends. Is this the one time, or one of the 9 times? I can't make that call without much more info and much more believable/reliable info.