Unadoptables - Sulcata Tortoise seeks perfect home environment - video Dailymotion

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Sulcata Tortoise needs a special outdoor environment and forever home. Subscribe to The Pet Collective: http://full.sc/HbM62v Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thepetcollective Twitter: https://twitter.com/petcollectiveTV Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/petcollectivetv/ Google+: gplus.to/thepetcollective  Louie, a Sulcata Tortoise is kind of a bully.  He tends to get into fights with his fellow Sulcata males at American Tortoise Rescue and is now searching for a quiet home. He would good for a home who only wants one tortoise.   Louie is about 8 years old and still growing.  He could live up to 150 years old so he is commitment.  Louie is active and perfectly healthy, but needs an environment where he can live  outdoors, protected from other animals and fed lettuce every other day.  If you are looking for a tortoise, please contact the American Tortoise Rescue at tortoise.com   Segment Producer: Dawn Poomee Associate Producer: Brittni Brown Editor: Hillary Parrish

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00:00Louie is a very large African spur-of-the-eye sulcata that was born here.

00:08And when he was born, first he was a cute little egg and then he was a cute little guy.

00:13And sulcatas are very attractive, very personable, very active animals.

00:17They scurry all around the place eating everything.

00:20And then Louie got big.

00:22And now that Louie is big, he's turned into a very aggressive tortoise.

00:25We need to place Louie because he doesn't do well with others.

00:28He's sort of like a guy that goes in a bar and gets into fights because he enjoys fighting.

00:32It makes it difficult for us because he's always being aggressive towards the other

00:36male tortoises.

00:38Guys fight over sex, they fight over territory, and they fight over food.

00:42That's Louie.

00:44American Tortoise Rescue was founded about 22 years ago as a non-profit to protect turtles

00:50and tortoises throughout the United States as well as throughout the world.

00:55Since that time, we've rescued about 3,000 turtles and tortoises and rehomed them to

01:00good homes.

01:01Here at American Tortoise Rescue, we have about 100-plus turtles and tortoises that

01:05are in too bad a shape to really be adopted out again.

01:10They've suffered some sort of mistreatment.

01:12And when a turtle or tortoise gets to a habitat, they really become one with the habitat.

01:18And to move them to a new home is very traumatic.

01:21We're very careful about who we adopt out.

01:23We try to arrange an adoption before the animal arrives at American Tortoise Rescue.

01:30We only take the ones that are in really bad shape usually.

01:36Louie is the poster child for what a sulcata is supposed to look like.

01:39He's large, he's smooth, he's got really nice scutes, he's very healthy looking, very bright

01:45eyes, he's got a really cute face, and he hauls butt around the yard.

01:50Turtles make really cool pets, especially if you have one, because the males tend to

01:54be aggressive with each other.

01:56But one guy is great, and Louie would make a great pet.

01:59He's easy to take care of, he's really, really healthy, he's friendly, he likes to interact

02:05with human beings.

02:06He'll follow you around like a puppy.

02:07It's incredible.

02:08If you have food, like a piece of melon or a carrot or something else like that, you

02:12know, he'll come running over to you and you can play with him all day long like that.

02:15And you know, they can also feel through their scutes.

02:18It's not like it's an insensitive rock.

02:20You know, Louie likes to be rubbed on the head sometimes.

02:23You can stroke his sides and his top like that, and yeah, he's really cool that way.

02:27So when it's a one-on-one thing with human beings, Louie's a doll.

02:31The perfect forever home for Louie is one where they have a really big area, we suggest

02:37a quarter of an acre.

02:39So a couple that's young that has a place where the sulcata can be isolated from children,

02:44because children can get excited and go to touch his sulcata, and if the sulcata pulls

02:49in its head, you know, the child could lose a finger.

02:52And they also need to be separate from dogs.

02:55Louie needs to go to a home where they will think about the future, where they will say,

02:59okay, well, Louie's 10.

03:01We have 90 more years.

03:04Let's make sure that we have a place for Louie to go, you know, with our children or someplace

03:10that is safe for him for the rest of his life.

03:13It can't be an impulse adoption.

03:16It has to be really well thought out.

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