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    #11
    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    Russian tortoises are ace, definately get yourself one.

    If you get a screwdriver and prise the shell off, there is an identical, smaller one inside. Keep doing this till you get to a tiny little one in the middle. It's great fun.

    Dont forget to leave plenty of food if you are going on a long journey, like a four week drive to Palestine for example


    Yeh thanks for the advice

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      #12
      We went to an RSPB event recently and they had a few tiny little tortoises in a box that had been seized - beautiful little things about the size of a matchbox. Tried offering the guy cash and then upping my offer for one, but no joy.

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        #13
        Originally posted by Durbs View Post
        We went to an RSPB event recently and they had a few tiny little tortoises in a box that had been seized - beautiful little things about the size of a matchbox. Tried offering the guy cash and then upping my offer for one, but no joy.
        They're about 100 quid for a little one here. Guess that'll be about right for UK too.
        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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          #14
          Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
          Russian tortoises are ace, definately get yourself one.

          If you get a screwdriver and prise the shell off, there is an identical, smaller one inside. Keep doing this till you get to a tiny little one in the middle. It's great fun.

          Dont forget to leave plenty of food if you are going on a long journey, like a four week drive to Palestine for example


          ... all the way home.
          "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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            #15
            Originally posted by threaded View Post
            They're about 100 quid for a little one here. Guess that'll be about right for UK too.
            Ah, perhaps it wasn't just because they arent allowed to sell seized ones then - i obviously just wasn't offering enough!

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              #16
              Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
              Russian tortoises are ace, definately get yourself one.

              If you get a screwdriver and prise the shell off, there is an identical, smaller one inside. Keep doing this till you get to a tiny little one in the middle. It's great fun.

              Dont forget to leave plenty of food if you are going on a long journey, like a four week drive to Palestine for example




              Made me chuckle for ages, that did.

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                #17
                Why don't you do the tortoise a favour and NOT get one as a pet ?

                It's only humans who have this idiotic idea of incarcerating animals for our own sadistic pleasure.
                Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                C.S. Lewis

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
                  Why don't you do the tortoise a favour and NOT get one as a pet ?

                  It's only humans who have this idiotic idea of incarcerating animals for our own sadistic pleasure.
                  BGG is right. If you must get one, get a free range Russian tortoise




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                    #19
                    I've got two snails. Big African f***ers they are.

                    You can play knock-down ginger with them.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
                      I've got two snails. Big African f***ers they are.

                      You can play knock-down ginger with them.
                      knock down ginger ?

                      how do you play that ?



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