June 17, 2008 8:09 am
Yesterday, Buster our tortoise took most of the morning to find the snack of snail vine blossoms I left for her (which she then devoured within minutes).
This morning within minutes of installing her foodstuffs (with another generous helping of snail blossoms), she was aaaaalllll over it, allowing the TortoiseCam to capture what I consider to be the very definition — the quintescensce, if you will — of reptilian nom nom.
P.S. Yes, a picture of Buster’s famed and much beloved namesake* was added just because I could.
*And don’t start about me naming a female Buster. When I first began caring for the fugitive tortoise back in 2001 I thought she was a he — and either way the stoic resemblance is there.
June 18th, 2008 at 8:02 am
This image should be in Wikipedia under “nom”.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Had a cat by the same name, after the same incredible comic.
Does Buster eat snails? I knew a guy who hunted snails for his turtles, but they may have been a different type.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Hi Gary, From what I’ve read snails aren’t a regular part of a Russian tortoise’s diet, but I can see why they’d be a nice snack: they’re one of the few things that move more slowly and they can’t bite/fight back.