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8. Maybe we start our own DU Group

Reply to aint_no_life_nowhere (Reply #7)

Sun Aug 25, 2013, 06:39 PM

Aug 2013

Tortoise Owners Group

When people meet Herman for the first time, they usually cannot believe what they are seeing. He will walk right up to them and do this head-bobbing thing he does when he gets excited.

Like you, I wouldn't give him up for anything. He hibernates under my bed and it is just so cool, knowing he is sleeping right under us. He is hanging out under my chair as I type this.

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Desert Tortoise Faces Threat From Its Own Refuge [View all] Stinky The Clown Aug 2013 OP

Feds will "euthanize hundreds of the tortoises" WTF is wrong with them!! Sunlei Aug 2013 #1

Given the tragic reality of the sequestor (repubic wet dream) I understand the "why" of this. Stinky The Clown Aug 2013 #2

Let them free into their desert. We Americans have millions of acres of public lands. let them free. Sunlei Aug 2013 #5

Keep the Desert Tortoise Stainless Aug 2013 #3

That's a damned shame. I have a Desert Tortoise Link Speed Aug 2013 #4

I have one too aint_no_life_nowhere Aug 2013 #7

Maybe we start our own DU Group Link Speed Aug 2013 #8

I can't guage its size. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #14

My Texas Desert Tortoise (gopherus berlianderi) is about 11 inches aint_no_life_nowhere Aug 2013 #15

The article stated that of the 1400 tortoise that WHEN CRABS ROAR Aug 2013 #6

"the pampered desert dweller"??? Peace Patriot Aug 2013 #9

That's what I thought Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #11

Are there no zoos that will take them? NickB79 Aug 2013 #10

Indeed. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #13

Why isn't Mitch McConnell screaming genocide? KamaAina Aug 2013 #12