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Hi tort peeps,
I am conflicted with the idea of adopting another tort. She is supposedly a 10 yo female; not sure about what state of health she is in. A coworker of my husband approached him. The story is, that this person hatched 2 eggs out of 4 that were found in someone's backyard, and she adopted them out to her friend but now that the friend is moving out of State, she gave those 2 female torts back to her to adopt out elsewhere. I don't think they are registered. She wants to rid of one of them and maybe keep one.
I feel for them but I am very committed to the wellbeing of my Penelope - 3 going on 4 yo absolute cutie. If Penelope turns out to be a male, it'll be the tort formerly known as Penelope and maybe it's not so bad to have a big mamma to accompany him but right now I have no idea how they would get along.
Also, I found out in AZ, we cannot have more than 1 Desert Tortoise. what is the law in CA? I couldn't figure it out from all the sites I surfed. I understand that we cannot have the captive torts procreate...so then it's okay if there are 2 females? I don't want Penelope bullied, though...
I even dreamt about this older tort encountering Penelope and my response in the dream was to separate them away out of my protectiveness for Penelope. My husband is thinking of asking his niece to adopt the older one since she loves Penelope so much but she's just a teenager--not sure if she is ready for such commitment.
What shall we do??
I am conflicted with the idea of adopting another tort. She is supposedly a 10 yo female; not sure about what state of health she is in. A coworker of my husband approached him. The story is, that this person hatched 2 eggs out of 4 that were found in someone's backyard, and she adopted them out to her friend but now that the friend is moving out of State, she gave those 2 female torts back to her to adopt out elsewhere. I don't think they are registered. She wants to rid of one of them and maybe keep one.
I feel for them but I am very committed to the wellbeing of my Penelope - 3 going on 4 yo absolute cutie. If Penelope turns out to be a male, it'll be the tort formerly known as Penelope and maybe it's not so bad to have a big mamma to accompany him but right now I have no idea how they would get along.
Also, I found out in AZ, we cannot have more than 1 Desert Tortoise. what is the law in CA? I couldn't figure it out from all the sites I surfed. I understand that we cannot have the captive torts procreate...so then it's okay if there are 2 females? I don't want Penelope bullied, though...
I even dreamt about this older tort encountering Penelope and my response in the dream was to separate them away out of my protectiveness for Penelope. My husband is thinking of asking his niece to adopt the older one since she loves Penelope so much but she's just a teenager--not sure if she is ready for such commitment.
What shall we do??