[mel80]

I live in N.Z. as u may already know I own a rescue terrapin of about 10yrs in age.I was just wondering how common turtle ownership is in other parts of the world and what sorts of yummy food do you feed your turtle ? Does'nt just have to be about turtles if you own reptiles or snakes even I'm curious

[Fresia]

Turtles are the one pet or foster I have never had, ironically considering all of the others. Snakes and lizards I have had and I used to foster sick reptiles for the zoo. It was an amazing experience.

I have to look up what a terrapin is and will be interested to see what others post in the event a turtle fortunately comes into my life in the future.

[Queen of Chaos]

I happened to catch a rather interesting program on our HGTV channel last night. I believe it was called "Selling New York". It was all about realtors showing and trying to sell extraordinarily expensive homes and apartments in New York.

One realtor's client owned a rather hefty turtle and practically no apartment building would accept pets. The realtor was calling about every apartment for sale in N.Y. asking if they accepted pets and the answer was pretty much not under any circumstances, and especially not a turtle.

The client finally did find a new apartment though. Guess what he paid for it? Guess!

















$6.42 million!! May lightning strike me dead if I'm lying!!

[unaluna]

My apartment building is right on the edge of a river. One night some years ago, there was a pretty big storm. The next morning, I'm driving out of the complex, and I see what appears to be a big black plastic garbage bag being blown across the road by the wind. I looked again - it was a big ol' grandaddy turtle or tortoise or I don't know what! A neighbor was walking nearby, I don't know if he helped it find its way back to the river, but that thing was at least 2 feet across! Wow.

[Queen of Chaos]

Originally Posted by hankster

My apartment building is right on the edge of a river. One night some years ago, there was a pretty big storm. The next morning, I'm driving out of the complex, and I see what appears to be a big black plastic garbage bag being blown across the road by the wind. I looked again - it was a big ol' grandaddy turtle or tortoise or I don't know what! A neighbor was walking nearby, I don't know if he helped it find its way back to the river, but that thing was at least 2 feet across! Wow.

I always carry black plastic poop bags (app. the size of a brown paper lunchbag) when I walk my dog. We live less than a quarter of a mile from a small bayou.

One afternoon I walked my dog down our driveway and there was the most beautiful turtle in the street. All I could think to do to get it out of harm's way was to catch it in a poop bag - otherwise I was afraid it might bite me.

I caught it and knew I'd release it in the bayou but first I needed to walk my dog so I walked back up the driveway and left the bagged turtle (with several small holes in the bag so it could breathe) next to the back door until I could get back.

When my dog and I were maybe 4-5 houses down the street (on our way back home), I could see the plastic poop bag making its way down our driveway. The turtle's head was sticking out of one of the holes and it was quite briskly moving right along with the rest of its body still in the bag.

[mel80]

Gosh I just had to chuckle at that wandering turtle with plastic on him/her.Thing is they are quite good travellers especially at mating time.Quite often we get reports in our news of someone who put the turtle outside thinking it would be o.k. in all reality the thing has climbed out and sped away.Lucky the one you helped did not get away still trapped in the bag that would have been a tradgedy indeed!!!

[mel80]

WOW !!! Fostering snakes and lizards that must have been pretty exciting.So what did you feed the snakes ? frozen little mammals or something else ?The only snakes we have in N.Z. are in the zoo's no private owners here.I grew up with the wild geckoes and skinks native to N.Z. some rare but mostly just the common variety,still beautiful creatures in there own right.