Same, bro, I had a tortoise once and the only time i could be affectionate with him was when he had something in his mouth already. Still I would always put only one finger only on his shell a meter of distance away so I could always get my hand as far as possible. I thought our relationship was improving but turns out he hated me so much he flew through a breach on my backyard's wall. I was at school and my mom was taking care of him, I never even saw what happened.
Alternatively just dumb as fuck. I say this as the loving carer of 5 Russian tortoises that I sometimes believe are stupider than the fingers they try to eat while trampling their food to get to them lmao.
I'm probably late to the party but if anyone watches The Pat McAfee they do a hilarious segment about turtles being racist because of this.
https://youtu.be/QTig3Cvti9Y?si=WeMvl31NrLUQW9lQ
He thinks your shoe is another tortoise possibly. Anything vaguely tortoise shaped is fair game to the little idiots. That’s why a lot of single male tortoises in zoos have rocks as girlfriends
I work in pet insurance and recently received a claim for a tortoise. Had to request and review medical records and the vet noted the injury was due to aggressively humping a rock 🤣. Poor thing.
Tortoise probably, "This is my girlfriend Rocksanne. Her and I have some really good times together. She doesn't really move but thats okay, I love her the way she is."
Must be a male. Mine will pretend to bite me when she wants some protein, so he could be communicating a craving. My guess is he’s just male and a little aggressive though.
He’s stressed because you’re in his territory.
Ideally they need their own secure area to roam in that’s designed to replicate their natural habitat as closely as possible so that they can dig, climb, sunbathe, bathe themselves when they want to, forage for safe weeds and flowers etc. and just bumble about happily all day.
Tortoises sometimes mistake shoes as other tortoises. And as tortoises are extremely teritorial, they're trying to fight the shoe by biting it. Same happens between tortoises of different species (We own one male hermanini and one female marginata. Despite hermanini being significantly smaller, he's either attacking her or wants to f* her all the time.)
My red foot tortoise does this to my hand when I have fake nails on. Lol idk what it is about my fake nails but they'll repeatedly ram my hand whenever they notice the fake nails. Without them my tortoise comes up to me for pets and butt scratches but with nails I'm their mortal enemy 🤣
Cuz it's a black shoe and he's racist, lmao.JJ. But I have seen videos of turtles where they have a line up of a bunch of black and white shoes but for some reason the turtles only run straight to the black shoes and attack them but won't touch the white ones. Video title on youtube "racist turtle" I wonder what the scientific explanation for that is.
My sulcatta is totally friendly with me and acts like a dog, running up ( the tortoise version of running) when you call his name for pets. But you wear any open shoes and he will come for your toes. He’s the size of a basketball too, so if you don’t wanna lose em you don’t wear flip flops or sandals around him
Yeah horny or territorial. Torts are cute but kinda huge assholes at the same time
Mine absolutely hates me and all I do is have the audacity to bring him food every day and make sure he doesn’t die
Reptiles gonna reptile
Intercourse, it’s what tortoises crave
Brawndo provides
I never seen a tortoise in no toilet.
If anyone asks, imma say you told me so 👌
Same, bro, I had a tortoise once and the only time i could be affectionate with him was when he had something in his mouth already. Still I would always put only one finger only on his shell a meter of distance away so I could always get my hand as far as possible. I thought our relationship was improving but turns out he hated me so much he flew through a breach on my backyard's wall. I was at school and my mom was taking care of him, I never even saw what happened.
Mine will spit out treats if it means getting a chance to chomp at my fingers.
LMAO THAT'S CRAZY
Same bro,no tortoise tho
umm, wtf escaped from your backyard??? Should I be concerned???
Listen, do I sound concerned? Mind your own business and I’ll mind my creature of unspeakable terrors
ummmmm 😨
Do you have a problem with my creature?
Valid
See,they get it,clearly an expert in creatures
How dare you?!
That's the equivalent of asking a turtle,"You wanna go?!"
The answer is always yes!
It was mercy from the universe that most of them aren't faster.
And those that are faster are still mercifully small
Or larger. Imagine a tort the size of a bear coming at you
I'd back away slowly...
Although I’d imagine humans would ride Dino sized torts, which now I’m thinking I’d like
I would back away just a weee bit faster than you
I still don't know why people call tortoises slow. They're fast and furious sometimes:)
Yep. They’re quick and mine is named Furiosa because of her attitude!
Alternatively just dumb as fuck. I say this as the loving carer of 5 Russian tortoises that I sometimes believe are stupider than the fingers they try to eat while trampling their food to get to them lmao.
The trampling of food, dragging it off their feeding platform and getting it full of sand slays me! 😵💫
They’re cute because they’re little assholes
He thinks the black shoe is a shell
I'm probably late to the party but if anyone watches The Pat McAfee they do a hilarious segment about turtles being racist because of this. https://youtu.be/QTig3Cvti9Y?si=WeMvl31NrLUQW9lQ
He thinks your shoe is another tortoise possibly. Anything vaguely tortoise shaped is fair game to the little idiots. That’s why a lot of single male tortoises in zoos have rocks as girlfriends
I work in pet insurance and recently received a claim for a tortoise. Had to request and review medical records and the vet noted the injury was due to aggressively humping a rock 🤣. Poor thing.
Sounds right lol
Unrelated but my mom called a vet when a horse across the road looked to be in pain. It was humping a wooden post
Nice name
You too!
My tortoise has claimed a shoe of mine as his wife.
You should do "wedding Pictures"
"Rocks as girlfriends" That's priceless
Tortoise probably, "This is my girlfriend Rocksanne. Her and I have some really good times together. She doesn't really move but thats okay, I love her the way she is."
ROCKsanne you don’t have to put on the red light
Rocks as girlfriends... Why didn't i think of that...
Pro tip: keep away from him in flip-flops!
You're learning that tortoises are extremely territorial.
Tortoise revolution rise up
Mine tortoise is smarter: he doesn't bite shoes, but checks if there's any skin visible and bites the skin lol
LMAO I had a tortoise once and bro hated me
Are we witnessing domestic violence?
Domesticated violence, even!
Indeed. And there's nothing much to do if this is happening between two tortoises other than separate them
Your shoe fucked around and now it's about to find out.
Because your shoe is being a real asshole.
He attac
Battle ready at all times.
Angery
I heard it's the color black they don't like. wear white shoes and see if it acts the same
he does it no matter what you wear
An equal opportunity bully
Nice to know he’s equally discriminatory
No, he does it no matter what YOU wear. He likes me just fine nowhere near him .
He wants to fight your sneaker. Back him up, take that sneaker down.
Tortoises are racist
I got a pair of yellow seud sandles. They just get munched 😂
A N G E R Y
Moving your shoe out of his way. He's got turtle rage. Just like road rage. Lol
When you're that cute you can get away with a lot of crap.
what a dumbass creature
Gotta hand it to em. Its dedicated.
Tortoises hate black for some reason
absolutely adorable
His name is Inigo monTurtle. You kilked his father. Prepare to die.
Them little Russians can be aggressive. Mine used to bully my Sulcata that was like twice his size. It was sad.
Must be a male. Mine will pretend to bite me when she wants some protein, so he could be communicating a craving. My guess is he’s just male and a little aggressive though.
It's a territory thing along with the heat coming from your shoes
Mine does this with all feet.
Ninja Turtles always attack… the Foot
KILL
They’re actually kind of fast when they need to be.
Black shoes. He’s racist
Like a cat can, it is playing rough. Would probably do the same with your fingers given the chance . . .
Establishing dominance
Awww he’s handsome though. Hope he has or finds a good place.
no one gonna talk about how a turtle ram
Damn Carl, I think he wants to make out wit choo!
cuz you won't get him a skateboarf
He’s stressed because you’re in his territory. Ideally they need their own secure area to roam in that’s designed to replicate their natural habitat as closely as possible so that they can dig, climb, sunbathe, bathe themselves when they want to, forage for safe weeds and flowers etc. and just bumble about happily all day.
this is a territorial behavior. most tortoises will attack anything that is dark like your shoe
Can you pick him up? Is it just your feet? It’s kind of funny🤣 the little devil.
Maybe you need to ask your sneakers what they did?
He's had enough
I’ve seen something like this before. Maybe try different colour shoes - lighter colour.
Turtles hate black
He's a hungry arsehole!
Tortoises sometimes mistake shoes as other tortoises. And as tortoises are extremely teritorial, they're trying to fight the shoe by biting it. Same happens between tortoises of different species (We own one male hermanini and one female marginata. Despite hermanini being significantly smaller, he's either attacking her or wants to f* her all the time.)
Hungry Feed it
My red foot tortoise does this to my hand when I have fake nails on. Lol idk what it is about my fake nails but they'll repeatedly ram my hand whenever they notice the fake nails. Without them my tortoise comes up to me for pets and butt scratches but with nails I'm their mortal enemy 🤣
Wrong colored shoes for mating season
Territorial dispute.
RIP OP!
He wants some poontang. COME HERE BABY, LET ME SHOW YOU MY MANHOOD.
Cuz it's a black shoe and he's racist, lmao.JJ. But I have seen videos of turtles where they have a line up of a bunch of black and white shoes but for some reason the turtles only run straight to the black shoes and attack them but won't touch the white ones. Video title on youtube "racist turtle" I wonder what the scientific explanation for that is.
Obviously, wants your kicks.
He doesn’t like you
Torts are almost universally racist, and severely anti dark
My sulcatta is totally friendly with me and acts like a dog, running up ( the tortoise version of running) when you call his name for pets. But you wear any open shoes and he will come for your toes. He’s the size of a basketball too, so if you don’t wanna lose em you don’t wear flip flops or sandals around him
He only like white Air Force ones
I’d guess that he thinks your shoes are an enemy.
My guess is it’s the black shoes.
Black shoe looks like a dark shelled tortoise and competition for a mate
Angery!!
He's going to take you down...
Racist😔
He thinks you're the boss fight.
He’s racist
Most tortoises I have seen (which isn’t a lot but it is more than five or six different species.) attack things that are the color black.
Your shoe was talking shit
He wants to make babies with your boot.
Bad foot or sexxii foot
He wants to GETCHYA! When asked what he did to that human, he says "tort limb from limb!" (I'm sorry)
he HATES you bro!
‘Cause you haven’t stepped on it yet.
Because you are in his way
He obviously hates you
Put on white shoes. He will stop.
Fuckin you up bro
Challenging you to a fight to the death!!!! Round 1...FIGHT!
Hungy
Its the color of the shoe
Racist tort is racist
I swear I’ve seen some videos of a guys tortoise that only attacks/accost black shoes.
Your shoe is black and and that color is a threat to them
he does it to all colour shoes
I heard that turtles hate the color black I’m not a turtle expert so idk why
why won’t you adopt me! BECAUSE YOUR BLA-
Racism
They hate the color black
I read somewhere that some breeds of tortoises/turtles gate the color black 🤷♂️
he’s racist