Bing is a Pansy

[Michael Wolfe]

Well he is not really a pansy, he is a tough guy... but he does love a good pansy...

Posted this in the enclosure sub-forum and porbably shouldn't cross post, but this is such a great picture of our leopard guy I had to post it here in the leopard lounge.

 

[Candy]

That is so funny. What a big guy you have there, and I'm not sure if he's interested in the pansies or looking thru your window.

 

[terracolson]

So cute.. where is he? looking out a window or door?

 

[Michael Wolfe]

Your right Candy, at the moment the picture was taken he was more interested i nthe fact that he could get up on the pansies an look out the window.

Terracolson, it is a window right where his enclosure is pushed up against the wall.

http://tortoiseforum.org/thread-12616.html
Check out his enclosure in the other thread... originally built a couple of years ago, and updated today with cypress bark and more humidity based on info from this forum.

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That is so funny. What a big guy you have there, and I'm not sure if he's interested in the pansies or looking thru your window.

8.75 x 6.625 and 4lbs 8 oz and 14 years old... when we got him he was smaller than half a hard boiled egg...

 

[terracolson]

ahh.. i have seen that.... i just have to put all the names and pics together

 

[Stephanie Logan]

Bing has beautiful contrasting color patterns on his shell.

You demonstrate remarkable self-restraint by stopping at only one tortoise!

 

[Michael Wolfe]

Bing has beautiful contrasting color patterns on his shell.

You demonstrate remarkable self-restraint by stopping at only one tortoise!

Thanks, that is a great picture, he was just soaked and washed and the sun was shinging in on him... Bing at his best!

I can't really take credit for restraint... if you don't believe me, ask my dog, or cat, or macaw, or fish in the 11 aquariums and two outdoor ponds...

 

[terryo]

Ponds????? You have to share some photo's of them.....please.

 

[Michael Wolfe]

I don't have a pic with me right now (traveling on business)... but I should clarify... really they are just 100 gallon stock tanks (rubbermaid tank like you would water a horse or cows)... but I can grow water lillies and raise fish in them... so they are considered ponds... at lest by me...

 

[Shelly]

Hate to be critical, but you need to start dusting your windowsill a bit more.

 

[Michael Wolfe]

It's OK to be critical, I'm here to learn... and you are right... what you can't see from this thread is that I came here to the forum to ask what I could do about all the dust that seems to be generated by Bing's habitat... and I found out good stuff about husbandry that I didn't know (since the prevailing thoughts have changed about humidity since I was last investigating tortoise stuff)... and it helped me upgrade the dude's habitat and make it less dusty... and I have dusted the window sill... but the dude did not wait for that, he just jumped in the pansies... and I changed from sanitation employee to photographer right away... and then later back to sanitation worker... so its all good now.

 

[Yvonne G]

I'm pretty sure Shelly (John) was trying to be funny, and not critical.

Your leopard tortoise is a real beauty!