A Tortoise joke

I mentioned to Bob, a guy I work with that we had a couple of Tortoises and he told me this Tortoise joke that has had me chuckling for days!

A Tortoise gets attacked and beaten up by a gang of Snails.
Next day whilst receiving treatment at the vets for his injuries he is visited by a police officer.
Police Officer: "so can you tell me what happenned then?"
Tortoise:"Don't know - it all happenned so quickly!"

2 Healthy Tortoises

We finally have a healthy Tortoise - well in fact 2 of them. As I've said, I was a bit un-happy about having just one on its own, and I think Lorri felt the same so it seemed like a good idea to get a pair.

We've named them Angus and Layla - and this also infers the fact that we hope we have a Male and a Female, but as they are only 9 months old it is almost impossible to tell, so we just had to make a guess based on the length of their tails and the shape of their shells underneath their bodies - we'll probably find out in just under 2 years whether we're right or not as it's usually from 2 years onwards that you can tell.

They've certainly showed up just how ill Lola was - they both sleep a fair amount, but also have periods where they almost run around the vivarium whereas Lola really did nothing but sleep and just look ill.

It was a real shame we couldn't have treated her ourselves, but hopefully she'll get that back at the pet shop and will be sold fit and healthy to a new home.

Snow!

Had a very brief sprinkling of snow today - maybe an inch, but unfortunately as usually happens it was gone within a very short space of time - a fair amount had gone by the time I got around to taking these pictures.

Had a bit of sad day regarding the Tortoise - she has had to be taken back to the pet shop as it looks like she as got some form of viral pneumonia - Lorri offered to get her treated if they paid the bill, but they instead just wanted to give a full refund so I'm hoping that they will treat her.

Another new addition to the house

Lorri's wanted a Tortoise for ages - and finally on Saturday having seen one in a pet shop she gave in and bought one, so we now have a year old Horsefield Tortoise also known as the Russian Tortoise due to their love of Vodka or something like that - probably come from there.

She's been named Lola - not sure why, but was very suprised when Lorri told me she'd never heard the Lola song by the Kinks. So far I'm not really sure what to think - just seems to sleep all day, but seems to be a bit more active when she's out of her cage - but that seems to be solely because she's looking for somewhere new to sleep!

She'll probably be a bit more interesting when we can let her outside in the summer - and that'll make me feel a bit happier as I don't particularly like seeing animals caged up all the time - I'm sure most animals are happy enough in captivity but I always feel slightly un-comfortable whenever I see a caged animal - just want to open the door and set them free.