Dear tortoise. I love you. You are very cute, and I’m glad that I saved you from a smushy end on the highway. Further I’m glad that your non native self is in my care, and not out in the wild where someone dumped you. PLEASE STOP BANGING AROUND. You wanted out of your tub, so out you went. You may NOT go back outside, as it is storming like a mofo. Leave the window alone. You have whole house to march about in. Please do so with a minimum of noise you scaly little fucker. Sheesh.
Wow, if I were to list all the problems I could foresee with owning a pet tortoise, “Too noisy” wouldn’t even occur to me.
Yeah, I have a couple and they get stir crazy and try to walk out of their enclosure for hours.
If you just put them in the freezer for a few minutes they quiet down.
That was a joke, if you can’t let them outside, consider the tub. They can’t make as much noise there (since there are no corners for them to grind against) and when they squirt huge fountains of fishy shit all over the place you can at least clean it up.
Sounds like you could use wall-to-wall carpeting.
No just a less retarded tortoise. She just doesn’t get the concept of windows and will bump into it over and over and over until I either mover her away from it, or she gets tired and wants back into her tub.
Well, I don’t think tortoises are renowned for their intelligence. At least you don’t have to contend with a pet alligator.
I have tortoises and alligators. Neither are very bright. Tortoises though are far safer (for the keeper).
Neither can understand clear glass as a barrier. They will though stop trying to walk through if an actual visual barrier is presented.
I didn’t know that you kept crocodilians, Are you involved with a breeding facility or something?
Threads about pet turtles are really more MPSIMSish than Pitesque.
I hope this doesn’t turn into one of those urban horror stories that ends with “…it was actually a HUGE RAT!”
Superhal, what the hell kind of rat grows a hard shell on its back?
An old, mutated one. Obviously.
I was imagining that a huge rat ate the tortoise meat and then got stuck in the shell.
That would be really cool.
And really stinky. No.
It might end up looking something like this.
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Best. Pet. Ever.
A question re: your Turtles…are they happy together?
Go to your room.
Why don’t you put something as a visual barrier on the other side of the glass?