Category: Animals

A Tuesday Snapshot #18

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Zumi Tye ©2024 Tremaine L. Loadholt

Every Tuesday, I will share a favorite photo I’ve taken within the week with all of you. This week, it is . . . Zumi Tye.

A little bit more about this one . . .

Zumi Tye Loadholt is our new Red-Footed Tortoise! It’s too young to tell the gender, but the name I’ve had in my head for weeks works for a male or a female. I’m happy with this selection as I gained additional education at the Reptile Zoo in Kernersville, NC on Saturday, March 23, 2024. This tortoise is better suited for my lifestyle and my living situation (apartment community).

I didn’t have much success searching for an aquatic turtle (which is what I had in mind for a couple of months), and I’m happy I took this route, instead.

The zoo had everything I needed for ZuZu in-store and slowly but surely, we are getting its terrarium enhanced and catered to my desirability for it. I have switched out the plants that came with it for a few others I purchased. I have purchased a water platform and a hiding/basking platform for ZuZu as well.

This pet will probably outlive me, but I am so happy and ready for this journey. I’ve got so much love to give, so why not lend it to a reptile, too?!

And if you’re wondering how Jernee Timid is handling this new addition to our family . . . she is completely unbothered and seems to stare at Zumi as if to say, “Oh, okay. You live in there? Well, stay in there, please.”

Stay tuned for next Tuesday’s snapshot.

Bonus photo!

Zumi Tye Stare ©2024 Tremaine L. Loadholt

I Think We’ve Got a Good Thing Here

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Jernee Timid: Testing out her new heated pad after I’d given her a trim and a bath.

Remember that heated pad I said I’d order for Jernee?! Well, it arrived yesterday afternoon and The Little Monster seems to enjoy it.

Although her sitting/lying on it for a long time did not occur . . .  she tested it out for about thirty minutes, and while I was cleaning and moving about from room to room throughout our apartment, she’d gotten her little self up and in my chair again.

But at least she likes it! I think it’s going to take some getting used to for her, but she didn’t outright decline lying on it.

If you ask me, that’s a WIN for me. 🤣😆😂 It means she isn’t opposed to having this new item grow on her.

I’ll take it!