re: #57 SanFranciscoZionist

My father grew in Fresno. The neighbors kept a native tortoise as a pet in the yard. To keep it in place, they’d drilled a hole in its shell, and tethered it to a stake.

The tortoise was buddies with some of the local dogs. They learned to snap the string, so they could take the tortoise with them when they went running off somewhere.

Drilling a hole in it’s shell to tether it is hard for me to grasp.