I've been looking into getting either a Box turtle or one of the small tortoise species for a couple years. One of the local rescues posted these two last week and I finally decided to bite the bullet and chose one, or in this case, two, turtles.
Just got them last night. They are super friendly!
The male has really neat markings on his face. He also had some pretty ugly damage to a section of his shell, that I'd been told about, but it looks really well healed. They were an owner surrender to an animal shelter who then sent them on to the rescue I got them from, so there isn't much background info on them. Not sure how old they are but they are on the smaller side and don't look totally full grown.
This is the female, peeking out to watch everything going on as I got them ready for a brief soak this morning.
The male after his soak.
The old injury to the male's shell.
The female after her soak.
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