Rescue Hingeback, Deirdre

[jsheffield]

Three months….

 

[jsheffield]

She’s doing well

 

[Jan A]

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She’s doing well

She's smiling as if to say "I can hurl myself offa here faster than you can catch me."

 

[TheLastGreen]

How's it going with ol' Deirdre @jsheffield ?

 

[jsheffield]

How's it going with ol' Deirdre @jsheffield ?

She's now living with a keeper who has a male Homeana so she can hopefully have some babies.

Jamie

 

[TheLastGreen]

She's now living with a keeper who has a male Homeana so she can hopefully have some babies.

Jamie

That's great! I'm glad she had a right royal glow up. (Can't help to smile, you really did a stellar job!)

 

[Thomas tortoise]

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Welcome home, Deirdre!

I drove down to Danbury, CT, to pick up this rescue tort, a hingeback, this morning.

She weighs 1477g and is 19.0 cm in length.

She's got some shell fungus and a pretty funky shell, both likely from sub-standard conditions in her previous life.

While giving her a bath and inspection and rubdown with athlete's foot cream (for the fungus), she laid two eggs, which settled the debate as to her sex.

I put her in her new home with a big handful of fresh dandelion flowers... we'll figure out other foods tomorrow.

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Just curious... How do you guys keep finding tortoises to rescue?

 

[jsheffield]

Just curious... How do you guys keep finding tortoises to rescue?

Craigslist

J

 

[William Lee Kohler]

As much as I despise FB there are at least 4 Hingeback groups on there, rehoming sites, various exotics sites. BEWARE the rehoming sites as they attract scammers and people selling animals and not rehoming.

 

[jsheffield]

I keep checking Craigslist within 200 miles... plenty of russians and sulcatas, a few redfoots and leopards... I enjoyed rescuing those two homeanas and finding them a home with a breeding creep, and would love to do that again.

Jamie

 

[Thomas tortoise]

I keep checking Craigslist within 200 miles... plenty of russians and sulcatas, a few redfoots and leopards... I enjoyed rescuing those two homeanas and finding them a home with a breeding creep, and would love to do that again.

Jamie

I would love to try it but tortoises aren't very popular in AR and even when I find some they over price them. : (