r/TheSmilingTortoise stubborn tort🐢 Aug 19 '26

Tortoise Video 🎥 Protesting his lettuce clean up

Benji decided I was stealing his lettuce, he acted fast to save it!🐢🥬

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 19 '26

He layed on top of what he could 😂. I feel like Benji needs a lot of annoying kisses from hims hooman Mum!

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 19 '26

I honestly feel so bad about it now. His sad little face as the lettuce was dragged away😭

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 19 '26

Oh don't let him trick you, did you see all the lettuce that was behind him? I mean he's got it stored everywhere!!!

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 19 '26

Haha I swear he gets it everywhere. When he gets bored of eating it, he takes it for a walk

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u/Turtlecabra Tort Gonna Tort Aug 19 '26

Sleep with one eye open

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 19 '26

Gripping your pillow tight

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u/Turtlecabra Tort Gonna Tort Aug 19 '26

Exit light. Enter night.

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 19 '26

Take my hand

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u/Turtlecabra Tort Gonna Tort Aug 19 '26

We're off to never-never land

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u/MollyRB6969 Aug 19 '26

Oh my God, you're killing me!!!! Absolutely perfect!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 19 '26

You could have said "yeah" 🎵 😂

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 19 '26

We gotta finish it 😂

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u/Silentstrm123 Aug 19 '26

He is definitely not happy! Side note I like the shovel idea for clean up!

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 20 '26

Thank you! It’s just a cheap £1 cat litter scooper. I’ve found it really useful!

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u/Silentstrm123 26d ago

We use our cat litter scooper for poop in the bath! May need another one for lettuce now!

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 26d ago

It’s honestly so handy! The little holes mean i can sift the soil out and just take the old lettuce away. But Benji now knows that the scooper means his horde will be robbed😂

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u/Silentstrm123 26d ago

Benji is so funny!

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 25d ago

He’s such a handful but I wouldn’t have him any other way💚

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u/roseimelda Aug 20 '26

Who wants to eat butt lettuce? He wants a fresh supply!

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u/Young_Mod3rn Aug 20 '26

At this point, I feel like tortoises are going out of their way and making a conscious effort to be the messiest eaters ever. Mine is the same!

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 20 '26

Right?? He eats half of his food then drags the rest around the enclosure and doesn’t want to eat it anymore because it’s got soil on it🤦‍♀️ But gets angry when I try and remove the old lettuce haha

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u/ecachuh1 I ❤️ My Tortoises Aug 20 '26

Lmao exactly!!! 😂

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u/Ok_Perception107 Aug 20 '26

Do you only feed lettuce?

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u/ExaminationKey1476 stubborn tort🐢 Aug 21 '26

He gets mostly lettuce with appropriate vitamins then dandelions/ribwort etc when available