Hi, newbie from North Yorkshire 🐢
 

Hi
I'm jo, just acquired my first tort about a month ago, a 2 yr old hermanns called zuma. We live in North Yorkshire (my hubby, 2 boys, 2 cats, a lot of fish, zuma and me) 😊
He/she was bought from a friend of a friend who had lost interest. Zuma seemed quite small for a 2yr old (I'm not a expert but I just thought it would be bigger). Zuma is eating well and seems settled in fine so can't complain.
A lovely new family pet.
I'm totally smitten ❤️🐢❤️🐢

Zuma does look lovely Jo Jo.

I lived in north yorkshire when I was young - Harrogate.

But I migrated to Scotland many years ago.

Welcome to Shelled Warriors!

Jonathan

Hi and welcome.
Glad Zuma is enjoying life in beautiful Yorkshire!
Torties are so easy to fall in love with xxxxxxx

Welcome Jo and Zuma. :-)

Welcome Jo Jo. Zuma, what a lovely name. Did you choose this for a particular reasons?

It's a character from my children's favourite TVs programm, plus I thought it was ironic as tortoises are supposed to be slow. Although I've found out this isn't really the case 😂😂


Thank you all for the lovely welcome messages 😊

welcome, hermanns are a very pretty tortoise too and nice characters apparently, CB

Yes I read up before desiring what breed to get, decided Hermanns tortoise for that reason. Although I think it might be the males that are more of a character, I've heard stories of them being romantic with plant pots, slippers and garden gnomes 😂😂😂

Garden gnomes..... dark horses of the garden world ! enjoy ! CB

Hermanns have great characters. My male Theo has a plastic cactus he likes to get romantic with. He becomes very vocal, usually when we have visitors! :shock:

I'm sure you'll enjoy watching Zuma as he matures. ;-)