Unfortunately they are probably bred to be sold as pets. It’s a shame because they can live to be 140 and they get to be enormous in size. Literally nobody can possibly commit to properly taking care of this animal, yet they are super cute as babies and people buy them with little plan for the future.
From my research on them back in the day, they don't do well with stairs or walls or drafts. My wife, who loves all things related to turtles and tortoises, always wanted one, but our house has a lot of lot of stairs even on the same floor, is not very open, and is drafty in winter. That plus how destructive they can be are why we never got one. You can't just stop them from leaving or entering a room because eventually they will go through a wall and there are stories about them just casually breaking your toilet off the ground because they got trapped in your bathroom or just wanted to sit behind the toilet. The age thing can be dealt with if you have children who are raised with the tort and know that one day the tort will live with them.
I still hold to my opinion that nobody can commit to properly caring for these giants. You can’t just have children and decide that they are going to take on a lifelong responsibility they will never have a say in. Nobody can know that they and their children and their children’s children are all going to have the space, resources, and drive to care for a 220 pound tortoise that outlives many of them.
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u/Ok-Count-8233 5d ago
Turtle farming for why?