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RE: leopard tort and redfoot?

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Posted by: drtom at Thu Aug 24 08:49:07 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by drtom ]  
   

I realize that the majority of tortoise keepers agree with your position but their are some inherant flaws in it. First if they are captive bred they would not have diseases from different parts of the world. Second I have asked on this and other forums for a specific germ that one may harbor that the other can not tolerate and I have never been told anything specific. Just the general rule. Third the minute you touch your tort you are mixing species from two different parts of the world ! People own dogs and cats, in the same house without problems. Of course quarentine of new torts is important, size and food requirements are important as well as habitat. I have kept an asian mt.tort with redfoots. Same food, same habitat. Both captive bred. I will close with saying what you say is the typical response but I think it may be open to question. Tom

   

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