No plate for Bertha

[ZEROPILOT]

Someone gave me a tip and I've looked back at posts and I can't find who it was, but they were spot on:
I have an ill Red Foot that only eats a little fruit. She wont eat out in her yard. Only in her house and she wont eat out of a plate or a bowl or even off of a piece of lettuce..Only off of the ground.
She came from a breeder and they were always fed by just dumping the stuff in the dirt.
If you have a tortoise that is new to you and wont look at food, try placing it right in the substrate.

 

[newCH]

Reminds me of a friend who adopted a 6 yr old lab mix from
the pound. She got the dog home & gave it the command to "sit".
But the dog wouldn't sit. Her little 4 yr old daughter came over &
told the dog to "sit down" and the dog did it !
Guess she only gave it half a command on the first attempt !

 

[Turtlepete]

Someone gave me a tip and I've looked back at posts and I can't find who it was, but they were spot on:
I have an ill Red Foot that only eats a little fruit. She wont eat out in her yard. Only in her house and she wont eat out of a plate or a bowl or even off of a piece of lettuce..Only off of the ground.
She came from a breeder and they were always fed by just dumping the stuff in the dirt.
If you have a tortoise that is new to you and wont look at food, try placing it right in the substrate.

Lots of finicky ones are this way. Seems to be mostly forest/tropical tortoises, as far as I've seen. This is especially common with WC animals. They highly prefer foraging over eating a chopped up salad. A lot of mine won't even touch a prepared salad.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Lots of finicky ones are this way. Seems to be mostly forest/tropical tortoises, as far as I've seen. This is especially common with WC animals. They highly prefer foraging over eating a chopped up salad. A lot of mine won't even touch a prepared salad.

New to me, but I wont forget it.

 

[tortdad]

New to me, but I wont forget it.

Hey. I tried to PM you and got an error that said I don't have permission to start a conversation with you. Weird.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I'm logging off, but I'll shoot one to you first.