Thanks for the reply's everyone. I appreciate your input and I guess I somewhat jumped to conclusions on whether or not this tortoise is the specific species that is endangered. My girlfriend had inquired further about the Tortoise and the girl had mentioned that she assumed he wasn't "anything special". So I'm going to continue to talk to other tortoise owners and find resources about the care of them and make a decision from there. My girlfriend would really like to have a tortoise and I just don't want to jump in to something I don't know enough about, but I think we are going to take him in, to at least provide him with better care then he has been recieving in the past fifteen years. If it happens to be that this is an endangered species I will contact whomever is able to take him off my hands to help promote and further his kind. If not, I will find out from there if that what I'm doing for him is more then sufficient and that he stays in perfect health whether I'm taking care of him or a person with experience is taking care of him.