Desert Tortoise Adoption

The Arizona Game and Fish Department recently held a desert tortoise adoption event. This video was created by the information branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department, producer: Carol Lynde

[@thebeingwithnoicon7561]

When your pet lives longer than you do

[@brainshowers3925]

Just what I always wanted a cute little tortoise to love him squeeze him and name him George

[@beautiful_dizazter]

We just adopted one last week! He is a hoot

[@johntorhovtor5244]

where do u live miss i need female tortoise i have male mojave land tortoise do u know where i can adopt one let me know

[@Declan50]

I have a 55 year old & 36 year old. I wouldn't part with them for the world!

[@beautiful_dizazter]

Declan50 We just adopted a male last week. My husband doesnt know how old it might be. He is 11 inches across and probably weighs 10-15 pounds. Do you know approximately how old he might be?

[@princewilliamthefox3825]

We,( not really but my Family{before I was born})-started in 1947 (71 yrs. ago).We have the Galapagos,Aldabra,Sulcata,Burmese Brown Mountain,etc.,etc..,......"GOOD FOR YOU"!!!!,Declan,and I /We wish you all the success for you and your Family in the future,as I know they'll enjoy the torts as much as you.

[@terryjon8128]

It's a bit hard to tell by the info provided but a thing you can look for is the lines in there scutes on the carapice count the rings usually older ones will have thinner lines between there scutes the younger the wider the lines will be I know that maybe confusing but it's best I can do with out seeing a picture anyway congrats on your new family member be good to them there amazing creatures and they can teach us so much

[@baddoggie101]

Tortoise people are special people...especially weird.

[@IMDARKFIRE007]

Low maintenance?!?! Is that chick high? between lighting, temps, diet, enclosure requirements, cost of substrate if indoors, predators, escape risk and on and ON...torts are NOT easy like cats and dogs. You can straight up kill a tort if you get one without doing your homework and a LOT of it.

[@drums4life937]

A lot of people think they’re easy and low maintenance pets sadly

[@megg2826]

These are sonoran desert tortoises you keep them outside and they will thrive. All you have to do is collapse their caves every once in a while in the backyward to give them more things to dig into. Comparatively to other tortoises they are very low maintenance.

[@wilddesertgarden]

They must live outside in an enclosed yard in Arizona. They can eat plants around your yard and they rarely drink water. As long as you don't have a dog, predators shouldn't be an issue.

[@craigbradley225]

I own a desert tortoise

[@craigbradley225]

Her name is Lilly 🐢

[@markmaningas5502]

A cis white straight Male i own 2 but there very little and i cant name then with out knowing there gender

[@alexa1310]

Same!

[@autumnvalentino6542]

I just got one a week ago but not in Arizona bc I don't live there and I never know about that tortoise place and I love her so much

[@likitalks3680]

Super video nice to see you

[@michellecapulong206]

Wow thanks For adopt them 😍they have a new family

[@jomama8895]

such interesting creatures.. funny because its the pet you only see half the year lol

[@andioop3905]

We had one before and we had it inside our house every time we closed our doors it would scratch on it so we can open them sadly my aunties dog killed her 😩😭. But we’re getting another one god bless our tortoise

[@ralphmarges2965]

THATS WHY I FUCKING HATE DOGS!

[@sambradley9091]

@@ralphmarges2965 It's the aunt's fucking fault for being a bad dog owner, don't hate dogs when dogs are incapable of critical thinking

[@kenjiro2676]

I live in california near sonora, so maybe In napa I can have a sonora tortoise living outside right? *UPDATE*: After researching that they hibernate I completely left california desert tortoise. Im leaning towards red foots and elongated tortoises, because they do not hibernate.

[@azgfd]

Kenneth, Please check with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. www.wildlife.ca.gov/

[@lolj377]

I just found my tortoise in my front yard

[@cloudchaserchasinflavor7135]

I have a question: is this the same thing as a Texas tortoise?? And if so why is it so easy to adopt in Arizona but in Texas it is protected at illegal to keep or collect?? If not what’s the difference between the two??

[@deepharrow8520]

Makes zero sense here in florida they call them gopher tortoise and you go to jail for touching one

[@megg2826]

From what i understand they are very different species.

[@scanmyprofile671]

I ajve a 6 yr old tortise but I want 1 or 2 more but can't cause I moved to a different state

[@cherrylynn7173]

The blonde, Laurie, is me when I got my sully tort!! I love him!

[@hiimdisorganized8053]

i luv ur vids

[@autumnvalentino6542]

But I feel like she is lonely when I'm gone

[@fatikanping1397]

i want adoption. any tortoise for adoption???

[@Lisa-qy3bp]

🐢🐢❤️❤️

[@kellyoxo2818]

If you release a domestic dog or cat how come they live in packs and seem to know how to survive? You know feral cats etc. You are wrong about releasing them. A possibililty of their low numbers is they may have more predators also in addition to people. The mountain lions and bears have increased in population in addition to the human population in the southwest. Seaturtles instinctively know where to go when they release them in the ocean.

[@ludovickvanhullsen8061]

the desert tortoise has a very large territory and xtremely low amount of food to survive on the can go with out food for four years that is why it is important not to come to close to them scaring them are touching them in the wild will cause them to use one of their defense and it is to urinate ounce that is done the tortuse has lost all of her water reserve that she has stored four surviving for the next four years at a temperature of over 130 degrees in the July throw sometimes October so ounce captured you introduce her to new food play with it stopping it from gaining the natural resources loosing the ability to get accustomed to its serounding by moving her she also looses her territory good shelter she has known in the wild all her life I had seen desert toirtuses been round up extremely carefully by walking behind her for hours to get her out of the new custoction site and they do not survive the c oyotes get them their good supply no longer scalable and found what is left of them dead so yah returning them really and their is a lot more to it I rescued several of them from friends that said how cute and starved them due to not caring for them what a mess I have had this two year old one now for almost a year and she is doing so much better with proper care she is starting to go in hibernation I am so worries but I know that she will make it for the next 6 months

[@sloothy5828]

Can you just fnd a dessert tortise in teh dessert

[@porkchopspapi5757]

Sloothy. No you can't take them out of the wild.

[@terryjon8128]

Low maintenance ? are you kidding me that's the worst advice to give a new tortoise owners like what if you got a sulcata ? You mean to tell me that there low maintenance gtfo I love these animals more than you could imagine and that just kinda rubbed me the wrong way I even heard her say there easy to take care of for children like are you serious just lost so much respect don't get me wrong I applaud helping these animals but you have to give the proper care instructions or it's pointless

[@carterseib223]

I have russian torts

[@hampirmuntah]

I want one..

[@erikandvivianrossizalkus9329]

Pudi Pai dude my kids watch your videos. We have 1, my kids are always telling me how they want to make videos like you. My point is you can't get a freaking tortoise!

[@sambradley9091]

@@erikandvivianrossizalkus9329 Who? They have one video