hello i am absolutley fuming with my son(3)
thismorning i told him off for being naughty so off he went sulking in to the living room slaming the door behind him,5 minutes later i checked him and all was fine he had given up crying and was watching tv ,so i ploded on with the chores,10 minutes later he come runing in the kitchen looking proud of him self,:@ i asked what hed done and he said I HAVE BURRIED SQUIRT I SAID WHAT.i ran to his tort table and there he was trying to get out of a soil pile that my of a son had burried him under.
he couldnt see for the dusty soil in his eyes i wiped it from his head and eyes n little nose he is ok now thank god i bathed him and offerd him food he diddnt want the food but enjoyed his bath,
just wondering if this will have harmed him in any way, i was so fuming with my son i shouted st him extremely loud and it never even botherd him,i have locked squirt in my bedroom out of harms way,

will this have harmed him ?

You know what a Frissbe is... a disk that is thrown... popular in the US... (yall know where this is going).

I once caught my daughter using my prize Desert tortoise as a Frissbe... I freaked.

Who's at fault... you are... I was... kids are just that... kids. If he remembers your response... he learned something... if you remember your response... you learned something.

The tortoise is not a person. I don't know of any tortoise shrinks. They go through way worse in the wild.

To answer your last question... the tortoise... or the boy?

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My nipper did something pretty stupid with my tortoises - words were said and it wont happen again.

my little boy did this to a hermanns baby i had years ago. took him of the table and into the garden and dropped him in the long grass. I was inconsolable, hysterical and furious. i was convinced my dogs had got him, the birds had picked over what was left and i would never be allowed to keep an animal agian as my neighbours all knew what had happened (due to me wailing like a banshee in the garden) and would OBVIOIUSLY report me to the rspca.
My husband was a pillar of strength and common sense. he ordered me inside and sat me down with a cup of tea and said it would be ok. for four hours he sat on a bench in the garden like he was playing steven segal in meditation mode. all of a sudden he got up and waded through the grass and plucked my baby tort from certain death. Turns out he had been watching for the grass moving from the tiny 40g fellow stomping around!
we went out an hour later and bought all of our small torts those indoor rabbit homes with the wire cage over the top. they all have padlocks fitted and boy does it set my mind at rest when all the kids are in and out.
I am glad all worked out ok with your little tort and child. with any luck he will be scared to do it again. Although my hubby caught our boy "brumming" a 10cm leopard on another occasion.....

will this have harmed the tort i mean, my son wont be doing it agaiin i will freek massivley if he does slaped arse (i wish)

i found him in his bedroom on one ocason with the tort inside his 2 1/2 toof fire engine he said he was giving him a lift home he is a little

tort seems fine i was worried that he mayhave breathed in hundreds of soil and diddnt know how he would be

You seriously need to tell the kid...

...step away from the tortoise.

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Got to agree with Ed ..... wont let any Kids near mine

My grandaughter...she is two...she helps bath the littlies...she figured they had had enough one day...I couldnt find two hermanns.....they were in the sewing/log box....with the lid shut.
We had a chat...she understands now....

Andy he should be okay just make sure you're keeping a close eye on his breathing, and his eyes over the next few days. Should be fine tho tbh.

just be extra vigilant, in regards to him being a little beep..yes n no, hes a kid n if he sees the tort as his friend he'll try to involve it in his games. caught my nephews playing with the gerbils in their army truck in the garden..to say i freaked would be an understatement, took a while to get through and explain why what they were doing was wrong..got there in the end.

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I lost where you were talking about the boy or the tortoise.

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