Update on the Tortoise

My son and his friend made posters to put up all around the neighborhood, ... and after one day, someone did call for the tortoise. The owner said she lost him 2 ~ 3 months ago. Before I showed the tortoise, I asked how large the tortoise was, she gestured that he was only about 4~5 inches long, while the one I found was about 9 inches long. I hope she wasn't scamming me. She did mentioned that she uses a heat-pad for colder days, since I told her the tortoise wasn't eating much that day since it's been cloudy and cold (60's). I hope Mr Tortoise will be happy back at home, and does not run away again because, next time we're keeping him! hehe...now I'm kind of feeling sad, he was a spunky tortoise.

More Turtle pictures"

Here's some better pictures of the little tortoise, after scouring the internet, I *think* it's a Russian Tortoise, which means it must belong to someone. We posted some signs in the neighborhood. Hopefully, the owner will see the posters and call us, before we get too attached to the little guy/gal. I gave it some shallow water, and it seems to like it. It likes to eat Romaine lettuce a lot, while he/she was on it's walk, he/she nibbled on some tomato leaves and ate our dirt. Good thing everything is organic!

Here's the underside, he/she was staring at me like, "Why are you doing this?" It wasn't flailing though.

"I'm exploring"...it's a fast walker, for a tortoise! "I was climbing large river rocks."

"Here's my rear end!"

Found a Tortoise!

I was walking to pick up my son from elementary school on Monday afternoon, and guess what was walking in the middle of our asphalt road!  I'm sure he/she belongs to someone, but so far I haven't found them yet. We've tried feeding it lettuce, carrot shavings, cabbage leaves, edible flowers, and cucumber shavings. It seems to prefer the lettuce. I've tried to find out what type of tortoise species, but so far no luck. Is anyone out there a tortoise fan, and can ID this little fella?