This is Mimi. I think she's a female, but she's real young. The original owner bought her as a hatchling three and a half years ago, thinking she was buying a desert tortoise. Mimi was raised in an aquarium the first two years, then for the winter of the end of the second year she was put into hibernation. The original owner already had two Sonoran desert tortoises that she brought here from Arizona when she moved here and always hibernated them. When she realized Mimi was sick, she took her to the vet and found out that she is a Sulcata and that they don't hibernate. Mimi underwent a round of antibiotics to clear up the respiratory infection from being hibernated, and is fat and sassy and healthy now.
Darn it...I neglected to weigh her and its too darned hot to go out there again right now. Anyway, at appx. 4 years of age, Mimi is quite the big girl...at least 25lbs, maybe more. She has a tiny extra dorsal scute over her hips which causes a slight deformity.
She's up for adoption if anyone in Central Calif is interested.
Darn it...I neglected to weigh her and its too darned hot to go out there again right now. Anyway, at appx. 4 years of age, Mimi is quite the big girl...at least 25lbs, maybe more. She has a tiny extra dorsal scute over her hips which causes a slight deformity.
She's up for adoption if anyone in Central Calif is interested.