tsemiller
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Every day after school, my 12 year old daughter will hand feed our wee tortoise. He eats fine when he's outside and in his table. He has loads of weeds growing and grazes on and off all day. He is very sociable though and comes to my girl's hand as soon as she puts it in his table or enclosure. She'll sit him on her lap and hand feed him and he climbs all over her. He's a very curious wee guy lol. Anyway the vet seems to think I shouldn't encourage her to handle him any more than necessary and def should not be hand feeding him!! He thinks we are causing unnecessary stress and said human contact is not natural for a tortoise. She only ever picks him up if he walks on to her hand and he seems to enjoy human contact. Surely he wouldn't walk onto her hand if he didn't enjoy the attention?? What do the experts think ??