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DESERT TORTOISES EATING A SNACK  

stardust81937 87M
4345 posts
5/9/2014 5:53 pm
DESERT TORTOISES EATING A SNACK
These beautiful, gentle, and very smart little tortoises, were born in my enclosed garden spot...They're now six years old, and may live to be over 100. They're much too tame to ever be set free to roam the desert.

When I first moved to the Mojave in 1976 many of these tortoises roamed over the almost pristine desert here. Now most of them are gone---killed by the extreme drought the Mojave has suffered through for the past 15 years.
stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
5/16/2014 4:03 pm

 Well, it's obvious that you took good care of her because you had her for a lot of years.... If I found some young person out here who had their own place and seemed to me to be stable and not like so many people are in California--moving every ten minutes!-- I would seriously think of giving them a couple of my tortoises.. It would be hard for me to part with them, but I want them to have long, long, happy and healthy lives. love, david...


silk_petal_rose 60F  
2363 posts
5/15/2014 8:29 pm

 HI no I never thought of her as being lonely.
silky...


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
5/15/2014 10:43 am
    Quoting silk_petal_rose:
    I had a turtle . a Canadian painted. breed of turtle . at first we thought it was a boy so his/her was SAM/many many yrs later we fould out it was a girl........anyhow we had her 25 yrs........
Do you think she was lonely? My little guys sometimes huddle together, and seem to all get along well with each other, although Little One likes to normally sleep a long way from the other ones....david


silk_petal_rose 60F  
2363 posts
5/14/2014 9:37 pm

 I had a turtle . a Canadian painted. breed of turtle . at first we thought it was a boy so his/her was SAM/many many yrs later we fould out it was a girl........anyhow we had her 25 yrs........
silky...


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
5/14/2014 6:02 am

 There are six of them. One is a lot bigger than the others, so I just call him Big Guy. Then another one is a lot smaller and I call her Little Guy. One sleeps with his head and legs and tail stuck way out of his shell, and I call him Stretch. Another one is the first to see me when I come in their compound and I just call him Alert, Another one moves really fast (for a tortoise), and I call him The Runner. The last one I just call Number Six..

The names aren't very original, and really I think of them all as the Big Surprise, because I had taken their mother and father to the Joshua Tortoise Rescue compound about 5 years ago, and a few months later, these little guys hatched from eggs buried underground. Originally 7 tiny tortoises hatched out, but something was wrong with one of them and it died within a few days of hatching out.. When they were first hatched, they were only the size of walnuts... These six seem to be very happy, and healthy. Thanks for asking, Silky, david


silk_petal_rose 60F  
2363 posts
5/13/2014 5:32 pm

 Well are you going to let us in on their names???
silky...


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
5/11/2014 7:15 am
    Quoting silk_petal_rose:
    Do you have names for them..my guess is that you do......
There are six of them, Smooth and soft sweet Silky, and they all have different personalities.. Yes I really do have names for them.. Affection, david


silk_petal_rose 60F  
2363 posts
5/10/2014 8:24 pm

 Do you have names for them..my guess is that you do......
silky...


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
5/9/2014 8:23 pm
    Quoting  :
This seems to be a healthy environment for humans to live into old age, and I expect to live quite a while longer. But...you're very compassionate to worry about this sort of thing... Marisol is 18 years younger than I am, and we also have many friends in this area.

Meanwhile the 29 Palms Marine Corp base--the largest Marine Corp. base in the world---has created a compound for all the wild desert tortoises they've come across, because due to extreme climate change in this area, they've determined that the few remaining wild tortoises in this area will soon become extinct. There's no growing food for them to eat, and even they require some water every few months.

My tortoises eat cabbage, corn on the cob, kale, collards, broccoli, and other vegetables I buy for them from the grocery store. They would starve on the open desert, and coyotes and Ravens would probably kill them the first few days they were in the open. My little guys almost never even go in their shells. They sleep with their little feet and heads stretched out in the open...

There's another tortoise rescue place in Joshua Tree. But I've been there to look it over, and I don't trust the people who run it. I have a suspicion they're selling some of the wild tortoises to people.

It's sweet of you to be concerned with the little guys, Cathy. Believe me, I am too. and have planned quite thoroughly for them.

It would be great if this area suddenly turned back into the desert it was when I first moved here in 1976 when during the summers we would have small showers and rain almost every day.. At that time the desert was green and there were a lot of plants for the wild animals to eat... Again, thanks for being concerned, love, david


stardust81937 87M
8340 posts
5/9/2014 6:32 pm

 You're oh so welcome, Hottstuffn.... I really love these little guys. david


helen_damnation 61F  
2487 posts
5/9/2014 6:19 pm

 That is so cool. Thank you for sharing.
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