19-02-2004, 12:39 PM
By the time I left, the only animals on the property that were mine per se were the leopard tortoises. We had nearly 40 at that stage already due to a few very good hatchings we had had. About a year after I left my parents had to give them all over to another licenced breeder as my father was too ill to continue with them. They did keep the one old female though as we have always given her extra care (has a fairly permanent respiratory illness) and we felt she would not be given the correct attention if moved.