Saturday, November 10, 2018 by: Ethan Huff Tags: adopt a pet, adoption, Brighteon, conservation, desert tortoise, Good news, happy news, Patricia, Tommy the Tortoise, tortoise (Natural News) Are you looking for an opportunity to do a really good deed while making a positive contribution to the greater animal kingdom? If so, then check out the amazing story of Tommy the Tortoise, and help him find the new, loving home he deserves! It was roughly 37 years ago when Tommy, as you’ll see in the following video clip from Brighteon.com, was picked up by the side of the road in the Southwest by his adopted mother, Patricia. Tommy the Tortoise has lived with Patricia at her home for almost 40 years She saw him trying to cross the road and felt compelled to pick him up and make him her own. Though she regrets taking him out of his natural habitat, Patricia has been lovingly caring for Tommy ever since, offering him plenty of tedious affection and tender loving care. “He spends summers during the day in my backyard where he has clover and grass, and he eats those fresh,” says Patricia. “And then, I chop up lettuces and cucumbers and other things, and he eats those. And he suns himself in his little yard.” “You have to give him organic foods because he doesn’t use a lot of water in his system, so if you don’t use organic foods, poisons would build up over time and hurt him,” she adds…. [Read full story]
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