Just to introduce ourselves and say hello!
Last week we didn't know anything about owning a tortoise and, despite always admiring them and thinking that it must be wonderful to have one, we never thought we would.
However, after a frantic visit from a friend in a domestic crisis needing an immediate new home for his Hermanns tortoise, we spent most of the night researching on the internet, the following morning building a tortoise table and the afternoon collecting him (we are working with 'him' until proven otherwise)!
He was only bought 6 months ago from a pet shop (hatched in 2011) and has been kept in a viv. on wood chippings and fed pellets for that time and in the pet shop too. We now have him on a tortoise table on topsoil and munching through some mixed salad, dandilion and foget-me-not. He looks happy and is busy charging around.
Hopefully we are doing good by him - but does anyone know if there are any particular things we should check him over for or look out for given his history? I worry that even though he hasn't cost us anything to acquire we could have set ourselves up for a future of vets bills...
Anyway, on a brighter note, used up most of the day on Sunday sitting and watching him. Actually a lovely feeling that could still be with us in many years time.