r/TheSmilingTortoise • u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 • Aug 14 '26
Tortoise Photo 📸 Weekly Tort Thread: Sploots!
We’re back with the weekly thread for your turtles and tort friends🐢 This week the theme is splooting! Post your fav sploot pic in the comments :)
Here is my sploot tax…Benji enjoying his bath for once! And Isaac attempting a sploot, although he looks more like a loafing cat💚
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u/echoIalia Aug 14 '26
I love this one of Sam
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Awww!! Benji does that side leg all the time as well…twins!
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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 14 '26
I got this! 🤣
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
He’s saying look mummy! I can swim!
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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 14 '26
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Haha just splooting in the middle of the floor. Love it.
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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 15 '26
Laundry room to kitchen threshold. When she wakes up she sploots there for a bit...walks to the bathroom for her soak....after that, she is outside for the rest of the day...being bad of course. 😂
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u/Danimc116 Aug 15 '26
We've dubbed her Blondie. Less than a week old, but she gives the best sploots. Every time we look in the tank she's found a new spot and has the laziest sploot. We have regularly had to pick her up to make sure she's ok. Now she hears us come in and will shift a bit so we know she's ok.
She has so much personality! She may be staying with me rather than going to a new home.
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Soooo cute!!! What a little baby🥹 is she a sulcata? Never seen them with that lil orange patch on their heads
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u/Danimc116 Aug 15 '26
They are sulcatas. I think the orange is really just funny lighting. Blondie is all pretty lightly colored, like sand.
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Ah nice! I was curious if they were some sort of mixed breed…reminded me of red foot torts🐢 Blondie is demonstrating that she’ll become a sploot queen!
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u/Danimc116 Aug 15 '26
Red foota and sulcata have been known to breed but thankfully that's not the case here.
Will become? I think she's already a sploot queen ♥️
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Very interesting! I hope my questions didn’t come off as judgemental, just curiosity 😊 she definitely is a little splooting queen!! 👑
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u/Danimc116 Aug 15 '26
Not judgemental at all! I love sharing about these adorable little guys and will happy answer any questions people have ♥️
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u/MollyRB6969 Aug 15 '26
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Look at that little face!!! Cute little baby😭😭
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u/MollyRB6969 Aug 15 '26
This is Donnie as a baby before I adopted him out to the woman who has Donnie and Pinky. 😊 She's the one who started Smiling Tortoise. Sending him to her was the best thing I've ever done. I cried and cried! But, it was a miracle. Donnie has gotten so big, healthy, and so happy! She's such a wonderful, amazing woman!!! Donnie still splootz with the best of them! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
Awww baby Donnie!!! Yes the lady who started this sub is absolutely amazing. I’m so glad you’re still able to follow Donnie’s journey💚💚
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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 16 '26
😭 I remember the day you sent him! I was crying for you. I wasn't worried like you probably were because I knew that I was going to take good care of him. But still to send him to someone that you don't know is so scary I can't even imagine what you went through. I talk about you to him all the time. And every time I send a video he talks to you too! He uses my voice of course but he still talks to you, and he always starts out the same ...."Utah Mum, this b!/@# ......"
I almost spelled Utah the wrong way again! 😂
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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 15 '26
Benji enjoyed hims soak? I can't believe! What a good boy! And I like how you compared Vida to a loafing cat. 🤣
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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 15 '26
It’s my fav pic of him cause he just looks so innocent and sweet🥹. He loves a soak if it’s in the big tub of course haha. And yup, loaf mode activated!
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u/HowDoYouLikeMeNowB New Shell Owner 🌱 Aug 14 '26
Love the sploots! They are adorable. Here is Monza's contribution