Today around 9:00, a oke waited me in at the store with a pick and pay plastic bag, he said that he has something that he wants’ to sell, so I asked him to show me and here was a +- 45 cm leopard tortoise in the bag, someway(Don't know what happened) I snapped,(I think it's that I knew how these people cook tortoises; upside down in the shell alive) I told the guy he has two choices; he can leave the tortoise with me or he can wait for the police and explain to them where he poached it, with a few groans he left, after a while he came back and asked me if I can give him R20 for his effort on taxi fee's, I had two things running through my head
1) give him the R20 and help him in doing it again to someone else
2) Refuse it and see what happens
I chose 2 and nothing happened, I gave the tortoise some of the salad that I feed to the beardies and he ate, so in my mind I wonder if it wasn't some ones secret pet,
Well around 19:00 I let it go in Zilkaatsnek nature reserve, just to find out that they have a few around at the water holes, so due to the fact that there are a few around means that everything that the tortoise will need is there.