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tglazie
at Tue Apr 8 06:22:09 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tglazie ]
You think this is bad. Texas tortoises are offered even less legal protection. The only animals I've ever seen were wounded and dead animals on highways. They are readily displaced without any legal bearing whatsoever. At least I've never seen any pop up in petstores, but given their rarity, such would be highly improbable. It is a shame, as they were once rather common in the seventies, when San Antonio was pressing development southward, and many clearing workers took animals home as pets. I've never met anyone who still had one of these development refugees, most having sad stories of tortoises dead within a few months from substandard aquarium/kitchen food centered captive conditions. This is a shame, as I'm sure anyone here would love the opportunity to breed such animals in captivity. I've always heard about Desert Tortoises and the successes achived in captive breeding and various state sponsored adoption programs. Why is there nothing of comparable repute or profusion for the Texas Tortoise? Pardon my ignorance, but is there any sort of organizational network in place for Florida Gopher Tortoises?
T.G.
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RE: !!! - tglazie, Tue Apr 8 06:22:09 2008