Tammy. He's not "happy". He is just a tortoise. YOU are happy to see him doing so well and looking so comfortable 😁
Craigslist rescue, Dozer
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He's a mess-mouth today, gorging on a Saturday buffet of Mazuri, carrot, and cactus pads on a bed of mixed greens.
Jamie
Jamie
Don’t you think they are “happy” when their needs are being well met. Like eating his fill of food.
Sure they are! Tammy is just trying to start an argument.
Dozer rampaging through a Sunday brunch of dandelion and plantago greens, opuntia cactus pads, a few chunks of mushroom and a bit of Mazuri dressing.
Jamie
Jamie
Dozer's Sunday brunch: kale and Timothy pellets and Mazuri and watermelon.
He got an extra long soak when I got back from my housesit in Maine, and since then I've been foraging a variety of local greens: grape-leaves, plantago, dandelion, Rose of Sharon, birch, beech, maple.
I'm interested to see how the weigh-in looks next week... he'll have been living here for two months, and he seems to have put on some nice growth lines, but I was away for most of two weeks (although my son helped out a bit with the torts while I was gone).
He's very active and likes to explore. His eyes are bright. The scratches he came with on his neck are fully healed. He generally drops two large, solid, and well-formed poops during every soak.
In general, I really enjoy living with Dozer, and I think he's doing OK, given that it's not the ideal environment for his kind in the long-term.
Jamie
Looking great and if you have the room and money to build the proper size cold weather shed, he will do just fine in your area.
I'm falling in love with him day by day, and think I could probably swing the shed/greenhouse, but I worry that he'd have a better life with someone down in FL or LA... at present my plan is to find and drive him a new home within a year or so, but we'll see.
Jamie
I think you would be a great home too but either way, glad you rescued him and good luck with whatever you choose.
Keep the updates coming.
It was hot enough in my neck of the woods to get Dozer outside for a few hours today...
He loves nibbling his way around the outside enclosure I've got set up for him... today I saw him chasing ants and crickets and nipping at them for the first time.
J
Dozer enjoying some hydrotherapy while I make his breakfast.
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Some fresh mown grass for Dozer....
J
Monthly health-check... Dozer came to me seriously underweight, so I'm glad he's put on some good growth and growth-rings in the intervening two months.
Jamie
Dozer gets a daily soak
I get him outside when the weather's nice
Today he got a bed of kale topped with alternating piles of:
* rehydrated seaweed and Timothy Hay pellets and hibiscus flowers
* softened Mazuri with chopped mushrooms
Jamie
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Nice presentation. It looks delicious!
Plus, I think he's putting on some nice non-pyramidy growth on his carapace.
J
J
Looking amazing. Fab growth lines.
DarwinTheFourToedTortoise
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I absolutely love him!!! he's so precious :3 
