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Originally Posted by YepBrook
Actually, if I did get a pet I'd get a Tortoise. Do you love them, Mary? Or are they difficult pets?
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Oh my gosh...Loooove them. They are SOOO easy. We've had all of them since they were first hatched, so one is 9 years old and the others are triplets 7.5 years old. They hibernate about 4 months a year and if you feed them properly, they just eat grass and weeds. So they don't cost a penny.
We had our first problem with them last year when the older one got territorial and was biting the heads of the others. So we had to cut our pen in half and keep them separated.
They are just really cool pets, but you have to be committed because they will probably live longer than their owners. Each of my boys has one and I told them they have to take them with them when they finally get a house and yard. Full grown, they will be about 10 inches long and our pen would not house 4 that big.