Great looking torts. When I first looked at the pic I thought that was a snail next to the big one. When I zoomed in I saw all 4 together.
Looks great!Originally I was supposed to keep Chasen for Chase only for 2019 summer. Here it is 2020 Summer, and I still have the tortoise. I haven't heard a peep from Chase and I'm pretty worried something has happened to him. I've sent a few emails over the past months with no reply to any of them. I really, really hope he is ok.
So, today's update. Chasen and Zipper (Leonard went outside to live a couple months ago) have outgrown their Vision cage and are too big to be spending 24/7 in there, so I decided to set them up in an outside area for during the days. I'll still bring them back into their Vision cage to spend the nights.
I also have two juvenile desert tortoises I'm going to set up outside today too, and I made a mistake and put Chasen and Zipper in the set up I made for the desert tortoises. Oh well. It still works.
I'm not happy with the milk crate stand. It looks pretty hokey, but maybe I can disguise it with plants. I started out with the bottom of a garbage toter that had been drilled full of holes and used as a pond filter, the milk crates, a piece of plywood and a scrap piece of shade cloth:
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To this I added some shredded cypress mulch (Will had brought me several bags of cypress mulch, but the pieces/chunks were too big for babies to walk on, so he ran a couple bags through his chipper/shredder. It came out great! I also put in some plants, and topped the cypress with fir bark:
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I guess when it gets to be winter I'll have to put the two of them into one of the tort tables I have in the sheds. Then next summer they can probably go out into the leopard yard with the big kids.
(Let's don't talk about the elephant in the room [two tortoises in one enclosure]. It's a case of do as I say, not as I do)
Two people that I have known, in completely separate circumstances, have vanished with no warning, and I was never able to find out what happened to them. It's a really rotten feeling. And now Chasen...I liked him.No, he shipped the tortoise to me and I've never heard from him again. I'm quite worried about him.
Oh Man! Is he flashing a dirty look or what! I love Rotts. My nephew keeps them and seems to have a lot of'em. Pits are my favorite dog, but Rotts are next...but I repeat, he looks mad...lolSo you pretty much have Chasen and he is with you forever.
Some crazy story.
This is how I ended up with a Rottweiler.
We were also told he hates beds.
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No blessing Maggie. I helped Y as much as I could, I went there to take care of her animals... I didn't create the pen, I just cut the tall grass in there and messed around some then put both Leo's in there.It looks good! Bless Maggie for doing that...it's hard work dragging those boards around.
And is that your cane? It doesn't do much to help you laying on the ground.
It looks good! Bless Maggie for doing that...it's hard work dragging those boards around.
And is that your cane? It doesn't do much to help you laying on the ground.
Karen, ya can't tell her sh*t...