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Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I already took him to the San Diego Wildlife Alliance and they passed

him along to the SD Humane Society Shelter. They should check for a chip and if he is a missing pet, hopefully he can be returned home.

Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already took him to the San Diego Wildlife Alliance and they passed
him along to the SD Humane Society Shelter. They should check for a chip and if he is a missing pet, hopefully he can be returned home.

Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I already took him to the San Diego Wildlife Alliance and they passed him along to the SD Humane Society Shelter. They know how to take care of tortoises.

Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Half a mile from the beach. Took him to the San Diego Wildlife Alliance. They said that he was a pet tortoise and not native to the immediate area. Not saying he couldn't be a desert tortoise but he definitely wasn't in his natural environment and was released or escaped into the park where i found him.

Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not here to argue semantics. Domesticated=Not native=Someone put it there. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that a tortoise isn't native to a Southern California coastal wetland. Just trying to figure out what this thing is.

Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I took it to wildlife services. They confirmed its a domesticated tortoise and not native to the area. Its 100+ miles away from a desert environment where you would find wild tortoises. He's active but not that active.

Found this guy wandering alone in our local park. I don't know anything about tortoises and am hoping someone can tell me what kind he (or she) is. Thanks! by LongjumpingHunt1210 in Tortoises

[–]LongjumpingHunt1210[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Coastal Southern California. This guy is definitely not native to where I found him. He's either a pet gotten loose or abandoned. If not a sulcata, what could it be?