This is what the Russian Tortoises are like every morning. Waiting for their food.
This one is adorable, look at him. He's so excited. Look at how much he's begging.
Oh my goodness. He just couldn't wait.
He'll try to bite your fingers. Onm!
This is every time I put their food bowl in.
It's like a little puppy dog.
Grace wants a Russian Tortoise, don't you Grace? You know, I'm really personal to the Red
Foots too, but these guys are so quirky, I love it. So there's two in here that are
particularly grubby. Oh look, look! They're all coming now. Ahh, they don't care what
they bite, they just open their mouths and hope something, hope something goes into it.
And I clean their cage, I literally throw in a few leaves and
then redirect them, because otherwise I can't get their cage clean because they
are too excited about being hungry. And then after the fact I will put them in
the actual food bowl, but it's the only way to get anything actually done with
these guys. Because they're always chomping for your fingers if you don't have food for them.
And rushing, so like as you see they've run for their food, so they just run and then
they keep getting in the way trying to follow you for food.
So then you can't get them clean the way they need to be cleaned. They'll just work
on that leaf. Hey don't shove him in the face, that's not nice.
Oh, now they're tugging back. I think you lost, there you go. Teamwork makes the
dream work. Watch out, watch out for his toes.
I'm quite impressed how easily they have demolished that stem. It's like they're
playing tug-of-war with it. That's great. Oh, it's like Lady and the Tramp. Oh I think
you got the last little bit. Okay, let's see who's gonna run. Oh, this guy. There he goes!
Oh, oh, watch your fingers. They're like little velociraptors sometimes. Oh they're all wanting it.
Oh, they're all gonna fight over that one leaf. Really? Guys, look at the bowl, look at the bowl. There they go. What'd you
find on the ground? There we go. There we go, everybody gather round.
Oh, this little guy got stuck, put him over there. There we go.
Why, okay there is a whole food bowl right here and they have to fight over what
the other ones eating. It's ridiculous. It's like there's a full bowl of food
right there and they all think they have to go over and go after this one
piece. Guys, do you not realize that you have a whole bowl so, there you go. Now they
realize it. Why does this one think it has to climb on the food
to eat it? It's not all your food, bud. You can eat right there, there's plenty
right there for you. All right, this five minutes later and they've almost eaten
all of the greens.
Okay so, this is what it looks like when all said and done. They totally emptied it of all
greens and squash and all the good stuff, and they are just running around their
tank. We got a few resting and digesting over
here in the hot spot. Looks like that guy is kind of passed out over there. So
yeah, once uh, once they all get done eating then they all just kind of calm down then,
some of them walk around and stuff. Looks like this one's gonna clean up all the
little tidbits it finds on the ground. But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed that
little look at how crazy these guys get for their food and we will see you all
later.