Ready to welcome a new, adorable friend into your life? A Sonoran desert tortoise could be just the thing you need!
Each year the Arizona Game and Fish Department adopts out countless numbers of captive desert tortoises that are surrendered to the department. Unfortunately, they cannot be released back into the wild because they could transmit diseases that can affect the wild population, so a solution was created – a tortoise conservation program.
Originally from the Northwoods of Wisconsin, Savannah Antillon and her husband decided to move to the desert, and once they heard about the opportunity to adopt a tortoise, they couldn’t resist, since they both are trueOf course, it wasn’t that easy. First, Savannah had to build a proper habitat in her backyard and then get it approved by the program, but once everything was set, the woman could finally bring the tortoise home. It was definitely love at first sight!.
“If you’d like to get rid of any weeds in your yard, please let me know – I can bring Georgie over to graze ,” she wrote one day in an email to her neighbors.It didn’t take long for everyone all over the neighborhood to start to leave out bundles of weeds for Georgie.
“The first time I gave Georgie some prickly pear fruit to eat, she absolutely devoured it,” Savannah told us. “The bright magenta juice from the fruit got all over her face and it was stained red for days. I call it her prickly pear lip gloss!”Soon the tortoise will be hibernating for the winter, which means getting six months of beauty sleep in her burrow from October to April, and Savannah said that she will definitely miss her a lot.
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