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Monster!

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Naughty Nugget!

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Nugget’s sleepy face

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Frankie doing foot yoga

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Nugget doing acrobatics

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Dinner time for the two greedy gobblers

After refusing breakfast, these two little monsters conspired to worry mummy and daddy via tortoise cam. Frankie did a tortoise pride march looking for food and Nugget started chewing coco fibre. 🤦 Top soil is going in soon so she doesn’t get impaction. Meanwhile, a fresh potted plantain arrived and Frankie absolutely went to town on it in the evening, while Nugget mastered the art of eating with her legs dangling off the side of the food bowl.

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Frankie’s Cousin Nugget has arrived!

He’s a Russian tortoise and he’s still tiny (92 g).

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Frankie’s 4th hatching day 🎉

Saturday was the little bugger’s 4th hatching day. He had a fine dining experience but tried to escape from the photo opp for his annual size comparison picture.

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Plant Massacre in Birkenhead

Plant massacre in Birkenhead

A mass murder of unprecedented cruelty occurred in Birkenhead today, 16 April 2022. Three dandelions, three pansies, two forget-me-nots and one clover are believed to have lost their lives. One of the victims had not fully blossomed yet when its young life was extinguished by Frankie “Big Mouth” Boettgeri. The perpetrator dismembered the victims before ingesting their heads and leaves. When police arrived at the scene, the killer attempted to abscond by entering an underground bunker.

He was apprehended and charged with six counts of murder in the first degree. A court hearing took place on the same day but the defendant pleaded not guilty on grounds of diminished responsibility. He claimed “I was suffering with severe grumpiness at the time that the flowers died and I had a difficult childhood because my parents only feed me five times a day.”

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Sleeping Beauty

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Can you spot the evil little grumpy face?

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A classic from when Frankie was little, read the text in the first photo.

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Mummy, I can’t sleep! The lettuce troll woke me up. Can I have a midnight snack?

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That Saturday morning feeling when your nest stays on your back.

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A classic from when Frankie was little: crazy dance because food was stuck on his nose 😂🤣😆

Watch the video here

https://youtu.be/QlChS1-Y_og

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Don’t eat your house!

Last year the little menace was very constipated for over a week. So he went to the vet, got an ass probe and it turned out he had eaten up the coco coir bedding from his enclosure. His whole gut was full of it. He had to take laxatives for 3 weeks. The vet said he should live on kitchen towels for a while and mummy said he would try to eat them. The vet said it should be alright. Lol. Of course, the little monster tried to eat them and also got up to nonsense stretching in the corners. So daddy bought him £100 worth of bath towels… and of course he tried to eat those. Finally he got £150 worth of ‘extra fine organic’ top soil, which is coarse and full of plastic and glass. So mummy picked out lots of trash by hand. While Frankie was at the vet, he was good all day long and didn’t bite anyone, but as soon as he came home he was full of beans. The vet also said he should have calcium every day (without vitamin D and with it once a week). Plus he’s got another UV tube in addition to his lamp. After his gut was clear, he had a massive growth spurt, eating 5 meals a day and pooping like crazy. Now in winter he isn’t growing much although he’s active and eating nicely.

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Good Morning