Hello from me and my son

[aramintalovegrove]

Hi everyone
I have been browsing this site for a while and am a member of some of the tort groups on Yahoo groups, so you may recognise my sign in.
My boy and I are preparing to get a tort, we are taking it very slowly, I am doing lots of research, signing up to the tortoise trust web course and this week prepared our out door enclosure and table as a half term activity.
We would ideally like a rehomer, hermanns or horsefield I think, but we really cant wait !!!!!
My sons really got into this and has said that he wants to pay to do the online course his self (as I said he maybe too young at 7 years old)
I will be bugging you folk and generally be nosey at all the posts. Loving the enclosures section its given us really good inspiration.
Samantha and Cameron

[Henry-flash]

Welcome to Shelled Warriors, Samantha and Cameron :D . Please feel free to ask any question you may have :wink:

[tortoiseguy]

Hi, your in the right place to get lots of ideas. You certainly seem to be organised and doing the right thing taking it nice and slow and getting sorted befiore getting your tortoise. Make sure you ask loads of questions, even if you think they seem silly, and when you do get a tort keep us all up to date.

[Blaze]

Hello Samantha and Cameron,

Welcome to shelled warriors!

It sounds like you had a fantastic half term! It's a great forum, and wether you're just checking up on something, or totally in the blue, people will always be there to help out! :D

[Glitter]

A warm welcome from the SW Team to Samantha and Cameron

Feel free to keep browsing and ask as many questions as you want too :D

[skewbald]

Hi Samantha and Cameron!

Wow sounds like you've been busy! Feel free to bug people, we all bug each other with questions on here!

Sorry if this is a personal question but what does your log in mean? I just ask as I see part of it is 'lovegrove'. That's my married surname and it just caught my eye! Apparently there's loads about, but I've never met another one (except my in-laws, of course!).

Have Fun!

Verity xxxxx

[aramintalovegrove]

Hi everyone
Its so nice to get a welcome!

Verity, Lovegrove was my Great Grandmothers maiden name and I just love it, when I married my hubby we actually contemplated taking it on as our married surname, as Naylor isnt half as romantic!!!! So Im very jelous you are an actual Lovegrove, maybe your inlaws are distant relations of mine!
Araminta Lovegrove is sort of a psudonym that I have a aquired from my clubbing, young, free and single days. :wink:

[aprillinda]

hi samantha :D

hi cameron :D

a big warm welcome from me :D :D

[Becks]

Hello and welcome to the forum x

[aramintalovegrove]

Hi every body I've got my encloser ready and I'm really excited to ask lots of qestions and I think I'm ready actualy I'm deffinatly redy becuase I've done the indoor encloser and the out door encloser and it looks really good to me :D and can I ask some qestions like whats torts faverote food and where can we get them and do torts need some thing speciale in there shelter and are torts hard to look after becuase if there not is there a tort thats eseay tolook after and wich are the smallest and what tipe of habitat do they live in and what do they do I know that they dig crawl and do they cameflarge if you know what I mean and do they need speciale tipe of logs and twigs and stones and how many twigs and stones and logs do they need?
from cameron

[nina]

Hi Cameron and Samantha and welcome to the forum! There's so much to learn about torts, but it's fun learning and people on this forum are great about giving helpful advice. One of the best ways to get answers to your questions is to look through some of the threads here, and also read the information on these two sites:
http://www.tlady.clara.net/TortGuide/index.htm
and
http://www.thetortoisehouse.com/
The first site is in the form of a downloadable booklet so you can print it out.

And keep asking those questions - we always say that the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked <g>

[aramintalovegrove]

Thanks Nina,
Cam wanted to put his post up, he knows most of it but also really gets the concept of gaining information from others so thats what the barrage of questions above was about.
Im really proud of his interest and as an only child I think a pet such as a tort which is a lifelong commitment is a really great education for him. He is so excited about the fact that I have said yes after doing the reaserch neccesary in order to make an informed decision about whether a Tort is right for us, he is biting at the bit to get one but I have explained the importance of getting the right Tort at the right time.
I will let him post occasionally but he will always have them checked by me before they are posted, and i think its really important that he asks the questions he wants in his words so there will be little censorship on my part, I have noticed others children post independently but as he is only 7 I think i need to keep an eye on what he is writing, the way you will know it is him is from the sig at the end I have said he must always sign Cameron at the end.
Hope that makes sense!
Sam
:)

[Bride2b]

Hi to you both


Welcoem to Shelled Warriors its a brilliant site with lots of excellent info and if you have a question you can post a message and someone will reply to it.
What species of tortoise are you hoping to get, its great that you are both doing your research on the care of tortoises, good luck.

[anya]

Hi Cameron and Samantha, SW is a fantastic site for answering all those nagging questions.

Think you have taken a very responsible attitude on gaining knowledge before you start, my daughter and I surfed the net like mad before we got our first tortoise, the understanding of these fantastic creatures has come on leaps and bounds since I had one as a child and now its fab to share them with my 3 girls.

Hope you find a suitable tortoise soon.

[aramintalovegrove]

Hi Anya and Tanya
I would really love an indian star as they are so pretty but Im swaying towards a Horsefield as our first, Im sort of keeping my options open as I would ideally like to get a rehomer.

[tortoiseguy]

I am so impressed by your attitude and the way you are going about this and teaching your son valuable lessons at the same time. I would suggest that you avoid Indian Stars are they are tricky. To start with I would suggest hermans as they are far easier and I think are a better pet for children (with a caring adult to supervise) as they have more personality

[anya]

Yep start with something easier first as tortoise guy said Hermans are good, our hermans are really firendly and I think your son would like this aspect of them, our Horsfields are v feisty and wriggly to hold also like to try and bite you if they get the chance but we love them all the same, pictures of our babies on our signature.

[summerangel]

Hello to you both :D
Julia

[Eire_Ade]

Hi and welcome to SW Samantha and Cameron.

Samantha, you are doing a fantastic job, letting Cam be his own person whilst still observing. you are showing him resposibility and commitment by taking your time and researching whether or not a tortoise is for you or not especially when a tortoise is over a lifetimes commitment it shouldnt be taken lightly.

Well done.

Ade :wink:

[aramintalovegrove]

Cheers Ade.
As you have prob read we have little Tegumai now and Cameron is soo besotted..me too. Cam has taken such a healthy interest. when I got up this morning he was tearful and said it was because he thinks he may love Tegumai more than me and his Dad!!

Any way I have decided I am going to enrol him on the TT web course along with me as I think although it maybe a little intense he has learnt so much he will prob be able to do ok, with a little help.

[KearasNana]

Hello and welcome to you both :D