http://www.ohmidog.com/2009/06/11/fear-the-turtle/ a site for dog lovers Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:33:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ohmidog.com/2009/06/11/fear-the-turtle/comment-page-1/#comment-9046 Anne'n'Spencer Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:51:27 +0000 http://www.ohmidog.com/?p=9946#comment-9046 These are the dime store turtles of everybody's childhood--the ones who always got sick and died after a few weeks. There is actually a turtle rescue group around; they had a representative at BARCtoberfest. She told me that keeping almost any turtle as a pet can be cruel and unusual punishment for the animal--if you don't provide a good habitat and living quarters for it. In their natural homes, the sliders grow to be quite large. The ones we so unwittingly put to death were just youngsters. These are the dime store turtles of everybody’s childhood–the ones who always got sick and died after a few weeks. There is actually a turtle rescue group around; they had a representative at BARCtoberfest. She told me that keeping almost any turtle as a pet can be cruel and unusual punishment for the animal–if you don’t provide a good habitat and living quarters for it. In their natural homes, the sliders grow to be quite large. The ones we so unwittingly put to death were just youngsters.

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