Hermie and his eating-manners
My tortoise appears to need to learn some manners, as graceful he is not. He goes to the edge of his food-bowl, leans over until he topples into it, head-first. It’s all a matter of getting halfway onto the edge of his food-bowl and then gently tipping forward, slowly, until SHAZAM! he ends up with his face in his food.
Day after day.
It is hysterically funny, to be honest, but he has a while before he eats in front of my parents.
I’d hate to see Hermie cope with a knife and fork.
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In Hermie land it sounds like the motto is enjoy your food anyway you can. With little legs like that how else can you expect to get food to stay still long enough to eat it?
You didn’t happen to see QI the other day did you? Apparently tortoises are delicious to eat ……. absolutely fascinating.
There’s another famous Belgian Hermie who looks an awful lot like a tortoise, but I do think he has managed the skills to eat with knife and fork, so just tell your Hermie to learn proper dining skills and see what he can become
You would need more than a knife and fork to get through that shell!
We never had a food bowl for our tortoise ad I remember.
Maybe you should get a shallower bowl.
Joe, I normally push the bowl down into the wood-chippings, but I didn’t feed him that day. Even so, he still manages to fall head-first into his food – and it’s only a saucer!
Put his food in a big, edible leaf. Wow, he’d be an eco-tortoise. No bowl to wash.
I wouldn’t let my Dad eat in front of my parents. He seems to have regressed to a 14 year old who devours the leftover gravy from his plate by upturning it and delivering it straight to his mouth. No middle man/cutlery involved.
…and he talks with his mouthful.
He has been divorced now for some years – making up for lost time, no doubt.
I know los of hoomins that eat just like Hermie, so don’t be too hard on him.
Errr – that would be “lots”, of course.
Soz.