Hello Everyone!
I just found this totally amazing and I was so excited I wanted to share and ask if other experience this.
I found it amazing my RF Tater comes when I call her and I've only has her since march. I heard that reptiles don't have the brain power and there isn't much that they do besides eat, this I found out is completely untrue. When I bring Tater food to her for the day I scratch a tiny bit on her plastic hide and make little noises to get her to come out(kinda the noise when you call your cat and dog). She comes plowing through her moss. Now your obviously thinking well hello food "the Motivator"! This is true,but I tried it a different way...when I first fed her and when she's really getting into the food, I made the noise as I said above and I called her and she plowed through her food bowl to get to me and she waited for a chin/neck rub. Now I truly believe that was not food motivated.
I know people are gonna disagree, but in my opinion I really believe they have some emotions. I'm not saying they are capable of the love ( I call it) that a cat, dog, or even parrot can show. I know I humanize my pets and some people like that and some don't. And I don't mean that I don't provide them a natural type home TO FIT MY NEEDS because I DO AND I try very hard to set things up and feed them the best so they have a great, healthy, happy, stress free life.
I really lucked out with this sweet baby...my sister in law ordered her for us through her reptile distributor(thinking oh my!! not good) so we were not sure what we would get. So afraid she may be so fearful, starving, sickly...but when I got her she had this amazing personality from day one. She was never afraid of us and she never cringed or flinched. So I wonder was she just born with this great personality or did someone actually give her the love and attention before she got to me...that i may never know because I can't get the info where she came from and who raised her.
So as you can tell now I have the biggest soft spot for RED FOOTS, and she is my Tortoise first love. I have two other great Torts a Leopard "Sammie" and a Yellow Foot "Mango". These 2 are very healthy and they are trying to trust us slowly. In my opinion I feel Tater is one in a million.
Basically I wanted to ask other Red Foot owners since Tater is my first and only Red Foot do Red Foots normally have such an outstanding personality and very trusting? I just wanna know everyone's experience with their babies!
Thanks for listening and thanks for the comments in advance!
I just found this totally amazing and I was so excited I wanted to share and ask if other experience this.
I found it amazing my RF Tater comes when I call her and I've only has her since march. I heard that reptiles don't have the brain power and there isn't much that they do besides eat, this I found out is completely untrue. When I bring Tater food to her for the day I scratch a tiny bit on her plastic hide and make little noises to get her to come out(kinda the noise when you call your cat and dog). She comes plowing through her moss. Now your obviously thinking well hello food "the Motivator"! This is true,but I tried it a different way...when I first fed her and when she's really getting into the food, I made the noise as I said above and I called her and she plowed through her food bowl to get to me and she waited for a chin/neck rub. Now I truly believe that was not food motivated.
I know people are gonna disagree, but in my opinion I really believe they have some emotions. I'm not saying they are capable of the love ( I call it) that a cat, dog, or even parrot can show. I know I humanize my pets and some people like that and some don't. And I don't mean that I don't provide them a natural type home TO FIT MY NEEDS because I DO AND I try very hard to set things up and feed them the best so they have a great, healthy, happy, stress free life.
I really lucked out with this sweet baby...my sister in law ordered her for us through her reptile distributor(thinking oh my!! not good) so we were not sure what we would get. So afraid she may be so fearful, starving, sickly...but when I got her she had this amazing personality from day one. She was never afraid of us and she never cringed or flinched. So I wonder was she just born with this great personality or did someone actually give her the love and attention before she got to me...that i may never know because I can't get the info where she came from and who raised her.
So as you can tell now I have the biggest soft spot for RED FOOTS, and she is my Tortoise first love. I have two other great Torts a Leopard "Sammie" and a Yellow Foot "Mango". These 2 are very healthy and they are trying to trust us slowly. In my opinion I feel Tater is one in a million.
Basically I wanted to ask other Red Foot owners since Tater is my first and only Red Foot do Red Foots normally have such an outstanding personality and very trusting? I just wanna know everyone's experience with their babies!
Thanks for listening and thanks for the comments in advance!