east central Florida here and learning
Hello everyone,
My daughter and I are considering our options for a tortoise. We are looking at Sulcata's versus Red footed. I have a home on an area and the back yard is fenced in with chain link plus we would build a "pen" haven't decided how big yet, thinking maybe 20' x 20' or so... We went today to a ladies house today who has 4 sulcata's (3 are rescues) and she has 1 red footed and a yellow footed... anyway, She keeps them outside in two pens. She has had most of them for 20 years, they seem to be doing very well...
Here's my questions:
1. My daughter is 24, married but lives here with her husband waiting for him to finish college and get a job, so their future is not settled... I'm thinking she should stick with a smaller tortoise. yet she really loves the sulcata's
2. If the sulcata's take 10-20 years to get really big, should I even worry about where my daughter may live by then? (don't want to see it in a rescue)
3. Which would be best for her first tortoise? (she's very pet responsible and even volunteers at a large cat (tigers) rescue every Saturday for 2 years now.)
for the life of me I can't get over how big these get and how many people have them!...anyway thanks
Hello everyone,
My daughter and I are considering our options for a tortoise. We are looking at Sulcata's versus Red footed. I have a home on an area and the back yard is fenced in with chain link plus we would build a "pen" haven't decided how big yet, thinking maybe 20' x 20' or so... We went today to a ladies house today who has 4 sulcata's (3 are rescues) and she has 1 red footed and a yellow footed... anyway, She keeps them outside in two pens. She has had most of them for 20 years, they seem to be doing very well...
Here's my questions:
1. My daughter is 24, married but lives here with her husband waiting for him to finish college and get a job, so their future is not settled... I'm thinking she should stick with a smaller tortoise. yet she really loves the sulcata's
2. If the sulcata's take 10-20 years to get really big, should I even worry about where my daughter may live by then? (don't want to see it in a rescue)
3. Which would be best for her first tortoise? (she's very pet responsible and even volunteers at a large cat (tigers) rescue every Saturday for 2 years now.)
for the life of me I can't get over how big these get and how many people have them!...anyway thanks