Mando (Sulcata)

This sulcata is in the Dallas area.<br/><br/>Extremely food motivated. Very active and always exploring. Curious about absolutely everything. Affectionate and surprisingly social.<br/><br/>Mando was found in a blacktop parking lot at Lake Lavon on Father's Day 2022, when the heat index was 95F or higher. The finding family took him to a local reptile shop, where they confirmed that Mando was a sulcata tortoise and estimated that he had likely been abandoned for some time. They took him to an exotic veterinarian and treated him for intestinal parasites and MBD. After about a year, they realized Luisa was male and changed the name to Mando. Mando primarily eats grass in the backyard, dandelion greens, nopales, and dampened timothy hay pellets. They also fed him other greens on occasion, including kale, chard, red leaf lettuce, romaine, iceberg lettuce, bok choy, and spring mix without spinach, as well as cucumber. Mando is very food motivated. Mando likes soaking in his kitty pool, drinking water from a clear glass bowl, and mudding. Mando is a friendly tortoise, but he will try to eat anything in his yard. He is heavy and curious, so we encourage people not to underestimate him when they are in his yard and to avoid getting bitten. On occasion, he has displayed territorial postures around food, but this has only happened two or three times in the more than four years they owned him.<br/><br/>In order to adopt a sulcata or leopard tortoise allow them to always live outdoors where it can enjoy natural sunlight, lots of shady spots for hot summers, lots of plants and other hiding places, a warm shelter that it can freely go into when temperatures drop below 60 degrees, clean fresh water, and plentiful natural graze just like it would have in the wild. That means grass, weeds, and cactus, but a little snack of store-bought produce is okay occasionally but not as a regular diet. Please do not feed your sulcata or leopard tortoise fruit or produce that is high in oxalates, such as spinach or carrots, as these can cause bladder stones which may be fatal. Do your homework.<br/>Sulcatas must have at least 3,000 square feet, leopards, 1000 square feet to roam that it will NOT be sharing with another tortoise, so it doesn't have to worry about fighting or mating. It is dangerous for the animal as it grows, they do NOT need a companion, and we will NOT approve the adoption of more than one sulcata or leopard per enclosure. In the wild, these animals have home ranges that are measured in miles, not feet. We've already taken them from their habitat, the least we can do is try and emulate it in captivity as best as possible.<br/><br/>TEMPS NEED to BE KEPT ABOVE 60 DEGREES (this means you might have to bring your animal into your home during an historic freeze event). DO NOT BOTHER APPLYING if you aren't willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep this animal alive. You MUST have a way to monitor the temperature inside of the tortoise's outdoor house (buy a Bluetooth thermometer) and you should be willing to purchase a good generator, and/or bring the tortoise inside your house if the power goes out and you can't keep the temps in your tortoise's house above 60. If you are not in good physical shape to lift and carry a heavy sulcata or leopard tortoise in an extremely cold weather event don't apply to adopt.<br/>Please understand that these animals can live for 150 years and can reach 200 lbs. You'll need to have a plan in place for both eventualities.<br/><br/>If you submit photos of your sulcata or leopard tortoise habitat (aka: your yard) with a piece of paper with your name on it or some other form of authentication in the same frame as the habitat then we will review your application, otherwise your application will expire in 30 days without being reviewed. Pictures should be e-mailed to contact@texastortoiserescue.com (this is the only way to submit your photos - please don't text them to me or send them over Facebook). Photos should show sturdy walls or fence of the enclosure, hides, water source, heated house (or explain your plans for this) Once your application has been reviewed and approved, we'll send you an e-mail that has a link to our calendar or contact information for a foster home so that you can schedule the pick up at a time that is convenient for you. The adoption fee for a sulcata or leopard tortoise is $150, payable through the adoption link I will text you once you are approved. You can pay using the link any time before picking up the tortoise. You may pay cash at the time when you pick up the animal only at our Bandera, Pflugerville, and Bertram locations. Foster homes will not take cash.

This sulcata is in the Dallas area.

Extremely food motivated. Very active and always exploring. Curious about absolutely everything. Affectionate and surprisingly social.

Mando was found in a blacktop parking lot at Lake Lavon on Father's Day 2022, when the heat index was 95F or higher. The finding family took him to a local reptile shop, where they confirmed that Mando was a sulcata tortoise and estimated that he had likely been abandoned for some time. They took him to an exotic veterinarian and treated him for intestinal parasites and MBD. After about a year, they realized Luisa was male and changed the name to Mando. Mando primarily eats grass in the backyard, dandelion greens, nopales, and dampened timothy hay pellets. They also fed him other greens on occasion, including kale, chard, red leaf lettuce, romaine, iceberg lettuce, bok choy, and spring mix without spinach, as well as cucumber. Mando is very food motivated. Mando likes soaking in his kitty pool, drinking water from a clear glass bowl, and m

This sulcata is in the Dallas area.

Extremely food motivated. Very active and always exploring. Curious about absolutely everything. Affectionate and surprisingly social.

Mando was found in a blacktop parking lot at Lake Lavon on Father's Day 2022, when the heat index was 95F or higher. The finding family took him to a local reptile shop, where they confirmed that Mando was a sulcata tortoise and estimated that he had likely been abandoned for some time. They took him to an exotic veterinarian and treated him for intestinal parasites and MBD. After about a year, they realized Luisa was male and changed the name to Mando. Mando primarily eats grass in the backyard, dandelion greens, nopales, and dampened timothy hay pellets. They also fed him other greens on occasion, including kale, chard, red leaf lettuce, romaine, iceberg lettuce, bok choy, and spring mix without spinach, as well as cucumber. Mando is very food motivated. Mando likes soaking in his kitty pool, drinking water from a clear glass bowl, and mudding. Mando is a friendly tortoise, but he will try to eat anything in his yard. He is heavy and curious, so we encourage people not to underestimate him when they are in his yard and to avoid getting bitten. On occasion, he has displayed territorial postures around food, but this has only happened two or three times in the more than four years they owned him.

In order to adopt a sulcat