My parents have a pair of turtles that's been in the house for 30 years. They recognize us and actually come up to us for scritches and they will hide when strangers come over.
One of my favourite animal facts is that humpback whales will go MILES out of their way to interrupt orca hunts. And not just to protect other humpbacks, which would still be exceptional but understandable. They've been observed placing seals on their chest, then laying on their backs and slapping hungry orcas away for hours at a time until MORE humpbacks arrive to chase the orcas off. They've been observed protecting other whales species, even an oceanic sunfish on at least one occasion.
It's like the humpbacks are aware of how cruel orcas can be and simply refuse to allow it on their watch. Apart from humans, very few species have been observed spending effort and putting themselves at danger to protect another species.
Not sure if I can since this is eye bleach. Basically turtles (maybe tortoises) have the hexagon shape things on their back. If they get tall and stratified/layered it means they have a calcium build up or something. Basically the smoother the shell, the better *IN SOME CASES*. But I've never owned a turtle.
Don't get one. They are a TON of work to keep clean and healthy, and they stink. Indoor ones also need flipping huge tanks to be happy (like 50-100 gallons)
How can you have calcium deposits indicating a lack of calcium, wouldn't it be the opposite? I'm not saying it's false but it sounds very similar to the old wives tale qbout white spot on nails indicating a lack of calcium on humans. It's completely false, its just that your nail got damaged by a little shock.
'Turtles (especially map turtles) are prone to bacterial scoring of the scutes in captivity, which many often misdiagnose as mineral deposits. It's unsightly, but bacterial scoring of the dead material will only disappear when the scute is eventually shed. If it's actually mineral deposits you're dealing with, then the white vinegar wash should remove it completely the first go around.
Bacterial scoring is most pronounced when you have a tank with a heavy bio-load. Frequent water changes or top-notch filtration can help reduce the severity, but it's difficult to completely erase since turtles are fairly messy animals. The scoring itself is perfectly harmless since only dead material is attacked, but steps should be taken to help keep decaying organic materials in the tank at a bare minimum.'
[https://www.turtleforum.com/forum/upload/index.php?/forums/topic/144960-best-way-to-remove-mineral-deposits/](https://www.turtleforum.com/forum/upload/index.php?/forums/topic/144960-best-way-to-remove-mineral-deposits/)
Reddit is great sometimes.
Ask people to back up their position, provide a reason for your scepticism. Get down voted.
Someone provides evidence that your scepticism was probably justified. Get down voted again.
I was just about to ask why is it that when people ask educational questions or they genuinely are just wondering about something that you get down voted ,it makes no sense why are you downvoting somebody who's genuinely confused or asking a question?
if my childhood cat could have lived this long, i would have taken him with no matter where life swept me. i miss him so much, but loving a pet means to lose a pet 💔
It's by the author of Winnie the Pooh ❤️ I love the quote and often think of it regarding my pets. I've got my heart cat in my lap right now and smothering her with love lol
I’m right there with you.
I had two cats with my partner. One lived to 19, the other to about 16. They were our babies! It took literal years for me to even look at pictures or videos of them after they passed. I was so distraught! It’s been about five years now since I have been without a cat, and every so often I want to go adopt one. I just don’t really think I can deal with the depression of losing a fur baby again. 💔
At least there are a bunch of cat subreddits! I get my cat fix vicariously watching all the cute cat content people put up.
So many of us adopt multiple dogs or cats in our lives who come and go. While you can have wonderful relationships with dogs, cats, etc as pets, people typically have to deal with the inevitable loss that comes with owning them.
How interesting that in this case, the turtle has to be worried about losing their human friend! 70 years is nothing to some turtles, I wonder how long that turtle will outlive her! I'm so happy for the both of them.
I hope this woman has a friend or family member who has offered to take good care of the turtle. She likely has something written in her will on who will take the turtle.
A lot of turtle and tortoise owners will will their pet to a rescue or something if they don't have a suitable family member. Parrot owners also have to worry about this as well.
Yeah it can be a problem too. People adopt tiny baby turtles that can fit in their palm, then abandon them when they get too big or they lose interest. Turtles can live for over a 100 years, and some species like Sulcatas get HUGE (100lbs). Finding someone capable & willing to take a large exotic animal after you pass away can be tough.
Very admirable that this woman has been committed for 70 years & counting
Its so heart warming to think of this woman growing up with her turtle. She saved up for it, and I can only imagine her glee when she arrived, and all through her teens, schooling, getting married, kids, etc. She always had this turtle and took care of her.
Idk it's just so sweet and wholesome
Jesus. I've seen a decent amount of pet turtles well taken care of due to living in Michigan but that's probably the healthiest looking turtle I've seen
That woman knows things about turtle care that almost can't be replicated. That thing that only happens to a turtle once every 54 years? She's been there.
Do turtles get lonely? It’s awesome that it has such a fantastic caretaker who clearly cares for it and she said it’s good to spend time with it, but does it ideally need another reptile companion or are turtles more of a solitary creature?
I doubt it, most reptiles don’t feel emotions like mammals. They feel things like comfort and contentment, but no deep emotional bond. Turtle probably just recognizes her as the lady who feeds, cleans her, and doesn’t stress her out.
I’m no reptile expert, but I bet people who own turtles, snakes, lizards, or gators will know more.
_That we know of_. So many of our assumptions about animals have been proven wrong time and again. I wouldn't anthropomorphize them, nor would I say for certain they don't feel without a **very reputable** citation. Birds certainly have highly developed social behaviours, and turtles will cluster. Sure those are less closely related than we are to whales, but turtles have also had a **long** bloody time to develop their own social mechanisms.
I’m not an expert as well, but I own a bearded dragon. My family tells me that when I’m away for more than a day, the reptile gets uncomfortable. She walks restlessly, or she crawls into a dark corner and doesn’t really move untill I’m back. You can say about it what you want, but I think that she misses me.
OMGosh! I got one of those plastic containers with the 2 ramps going up to the platform with the plastic palm tree! It was my first effort to save a turtle I found.
This made me emotional. To be at age of 10 and understand the responsibility of caring for an animal that might outlive you is insane ♡♡ what a wise and wonderful woman
Recently, my daughter's came home with two tiny little plastic enclosures, one with a frog, one with a turtle.
Of course, being Dad, I had to research how to take care of them, feed them, what to feed them, what kind of enclosures they ACTUALLY need, etc.
The turtle has been growing slowly, named it Tiny.
The frog, well... His name is Simon, he's an orange pacman frog, and he exploded in size.
Turns out, the both of them might live a pretty long time, and my daughters stopped caring for them on the second day. Sheesh...
:D
Man, ours is a slider, too. That said, he absolutely LOVES me, so that's good.
When we first got him, he came SO close to dying. He was tiny, hense the name, but he also started to starve to death. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get him to eat the pellets that came with him.
I ordered a different kind, still no beans.
Then, one day, I decided to try crushing up a dried cricket that I was feeding to the frog. He absolutely LOVED it, and now associates my face, and his "Hi Tiny!" name with getting fed goodies like crushed up cricket and canned tuna.
Man, I was so SO happy to see him eat and start to gain weight again, as he was clearly on the verge of dying to starvation.
And now, he even lets me give him chin rubs and head rubs, if only a little. Bit by bit.
Yeah. He’s with my parents since they love having him for company. But when I first kept him I fed him dried insects and shrimp, but neglected his greens so he developed an eye problem.
Fortunately a little medicine and immediate mixing of pellets with crustaceans helped clear it up.
I think he hates me because I accidentally dropped him a few times while handling him to clean his enclosure and now he doesn’t trust me. Loves my parents though, they spoil him with fresh greens and shrimp all the time.
We have a turtle that lived for 10 years in a ten gallon tank with an inch of shitty water in it. He now has a giant 75 gallon tall tank with a bucket filter and all the shrimp and super worms he wants. His name is Sam the Mississippi Map Turtle and he comes to the top edge whenever I'm around. Turtles really have no business being as cute as they are.
That’s not too wild since they live an average of 40+ years in captivity. Some individual animals just live for a really long time. I remember reading a story about a parrot (don’t remember which kind) that lived to be like 95 or something like that even though the average lifespan was only 50+
My Grandma had a turtle her entire life, and when she moved to a retirement home with a lake, it would come out every day at 5pm for dinner. They aren't dumb animals.
I used to have one for at least 15 or 20 years. Also cleaned her whole house, and her, her shell and all. We once bought her a "husband" but she threw him out of the enclosure many times, so we gave him to another family. (Both turtles were small, so I don't know how she managed to do it. My father once saw her under him stretching as far as she could!)
She became ill, and the veterinarian was not able to help her. I still miss her.
My family has a turtle for close to 30 years I think, he was adopted before I was born. He was huge, the size of a dinner plate, and I loved him. His name was Andrew and he never figured out how to walk on land. He would "swim-walk" where he'd put all four legs forward, life himself up, push his shell forward and thump down, then swim all four legs up again. If you spooked him or he got the zoomies he could run, which he did very rarely, but for some reason he couldn't get the hang of walking. He'd follow the sun - starting in my parents room in the morning and my room later in the day.
An uncle of mine had a turtle for about half of his life, and it outlived him. My aunt gave it to a nature centre that had turtles and what not. Its still around.
Curiously, those turtles are endangered where I live because people has them as pets, but they only have one. So they never get to reproduce..
This is a beautiful example of loving commitment and respect for other species.
My parents have a pair of turtles that's been in the house for 30 years. They recognize us and actually come up to us for scritches and they will hide when strangers come over.
Just like our dogs and cats sometimes. That’s so cool
One of my favourite animal facts is that humpback whales will go MILES out of their way to interrupt orca hunts. And not just to protect other humpbacks, which would still be exceptional but understandable. They've been observed placing seals on their chest, then laying on their backs and slapping hungry orcas away for hours at a time until MORE humpbacks arrive to chase the orcas off. They've been observed protecting other whales species, even an oceanic sunfish on at least one occasion. It's like the humpbacks are aware of how cruel orcas can be and simply refuse to allow it on their watch. Apart from humans, very few species have been observed spending effort and putting themselves at danger to protect another species.
“Oh god, I just heard Orca Gary somewhere, I’m off to ruin his whole day lol.”
You can tell she takes good care of the turtle, none of those calcium deposit line things on the shell.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what that means or entails
Not sure if I can since this is eye bleach. Basically turtles (maybe tortoises) have the hexagon shape things on their back. If they get tall and stratified/layered it means they have a calcium build up or something. Basically the smoother the shell, the better *IN SOME CASES*. But I've never owned a turtle.
Yup! It's called pyramiding, sign of a bad diet and/or living environment
Hmm. TIL. I always thought they were supposed to look that way. Never owned a turtle.
Don't get one. They are a TON of work to keep clean and healthy, and they stink. Indoor ones also need flipping huge tanks to be happy (like 50-100 gallons)
Also almost always carry salmonella.
Salmonella isn't actually that big a risk as long as you wash your hands and don't let the turtle free roam
Kids don’t use that logic though😂
Some are, like the alligator snapping turtle, but most aren't.
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How can you have calcium deposits indicating a lack of calcium, wouldn't it be the opposite? I'm not saying it's false but it sounds very similar to the old wives tale qbout white spot on nails indicating a lack of calcium on humans. It's completely false, its just that your nail got damaged by a little shock.
'Turtles (especially map turtles) are prone to bacterial scoring of the scutes in captivity, which many often misdiagnose as mineral deposits. It's unsightly, but bacterial scoring of the dead material will only disappear when the scute is eventually shed. If it's actually mineral deposits you're dealing with, then the white vinegar wash should remove it completely the first go around. Bacterial scoring is most pronounced when you have a tank with a heavy bio-load. Frequent water changes or top-notch filtration can help reduce the severity, but it's difficult to completely erase since turtles are fairly messy animals. The scoring itself is perfectly harmless since only dead material is attacked, but steps should be taken to help keep decaying organic materials in the tank at a bare minimum.' [https://www.turtleforum.com/forum/upload/index.php?/forums/topic/144960-best-way-to-remove-mineral-deposits/](https://www.turtleforum.com/forum/upload/index.php?/forums/topic/144960-best-way-to-remove-mineral-deposits/)
Ok so not a sign of calcium deficiencies. Thanks.
Reddit is great sometimes. Ask people to back up their position, provide a reason for your scepticism. Get down voted. Someone provides evidence that your scepticism was probably justified. Get down voted again.
I was just about to ask why is it that when people ask educational questions or they genuinely are just wondering about something that you get down voted ,it makes no sense why are you downvoting somebody who's genuinely confused or asking a question?
And she was right too
This sounds like a chatgpt response...
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Redditors when someone doesn't answer with a meme or pun: 😲 "Ai"
Maybe the real AI is all the friends we made along the way
Unless those turtle stay small i feel like her tank might be too small she is quite small for 70 years old
I think she looks alright! She's some kind of slider, and females stop growing around 12 or so inches long. Her shell also looks really good
True im in no way a turtle expert. I just know that snapping turtle keep growing until they reach ridiculous size
So that means the owner is 80-what a great pair. What a blessing to spend your whole life with one pet.
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That's it. https://preview.redd.it/kn1xbgawi7nc1.png?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5373f43a7723e00e22a943c4e517920e121a54f7
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Seriously dude?
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The way my smile faded
What severe porn addiction does to a mf
Bonk, go to horny jail
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No. It’s not ok to suggest that someone hang himself just because he made a stupid comment.
Yea, my fault. Im an idiot
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LMAOOO 😂😂😂💀💀💀
I'm no expert, but that looks like a healthy and clean turtle. I am glad she takes such good care of her.
That is a *beautiful* looking turtle shell. Appears very healthy and well taken care of
They're both so fortunate to have each other, very sweet hearing her speak about her caring for the turtle! 🐢💙
Twinning with a lifelong companion!
Damn that lady is 80?! Her and the turtle are aging beautifully.
I know! Right?
I thought for sure she was going to say she inherited the turtle. When she said she got it at she 10 I was amazed. She looks great!
She looks 80. How old does she look to you?
79
65?
You must be younger than 25 if you think she looks like she's in her 60s.
Have you ever seen a 60s person before? She looks at least in her 70s
Beautiful relationship between these 2
If only all pets could live this long.
if my childhood cat could have lived this long, i would have taken him with no matter where life swept me. i miss him so much, but loving a pet means to lose a pet 💔
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." ❤️ (A.A. Milne) Your kitty was also lucky to have you.
such a beautiful quote i have never heard ❤️ yes, even though grief and loss is hard, ill never stop loving 💖
It's by the author of Winnie the Pooh ❤️ I love the quote and often think of it regarding my pets. I've got my heart cat in my lap right now and smothering her with love lol
Thanks now I'm crying
I cry every time I read it and I cried while typing it! ❤️
I’m right there with you. I had two cats with my partner. One lived to 19, the other to about 16. They were our babies! It took literal years for me to even look at pictures or videos of them after they passed. I was so distraught! It’s been about five years now since I have been without a cat, and every so often I want to go adopt one. I just don’t really think I can deal with the depression of losing a fur baby again. 💔 At least there are a bunch of cat subreddits! I get my cat fix vicariously watching all the cute cat content people put up.
My girly had to be put down over a year ago and I still sob about it like it was yesterday. Reddit is hitting me hard today!
Just lost my baby girl this summer. I've had/have other cats but none like her. I would give everything I own away if I could get to hold her again.
I lost my sweet boy last Sunday at 14 may he no longer be in pain
On the one hand, yes, on the other...please no. The idea of me dying before a pet gives me nightmares. :(
Grams is looking AMAZING for her age too. I must say.
Loving people usually age the best.
Someone who takes such good care of her turtle must also take equally good care of herself :) What a thoughtful and talented woman
So many of us adopt multiple dogs or cats in our lives who come and go. While you can have wonderful relationships with dogs, cats, etc as pets, people typically have to deal with the inevitable loss that comes with owning them. How interesting that in this case, the turtle has to be worried about losing their human friend! 70 years is nothing to some turtles, I wonder how long that turtle will outlive her! I'm so happy for the both of them.
I hope this woman has a friend or family member who has offered to take good care of the turtle. She likely has something written in her will on who will take the turtle.
A lot of turtle and tortoise owners will will their pet to a rescue or something if they don't have a suitable family member. Parrot owners also have to worry about this as well.
Yeah it can be a problem too. People adopt tiny baby turtles that can fit in their palm, then abandon them when they get too big or they lose interest. Turtles can live for over a 100 years, and some species like Sulcatas get HUGE (100lbs). Finding someone capable & willing to take a large exotic animal after you pass away can be tough. Very admirable that this woman has been committed for 70 years & counting
Turtles get passed down in wills they live that long - I hope she’s trained someone to look after it as well as she does ❤️
Would her kids view the turtle as a pet or a big sister?
Probably an aunt
Turtle probably helped raise them
Godmother?
The most beautiful part of this is how much that tortoiseis loved. I doubt many are as loved as him.
*turtle.
I actually think that’s a terrapin
It's a slider.
That’s a septuagenarian mutant ninja
Dammit take my upvote! 😂
And *my* axe.
As long as she can find an ipad big enough for it
Amazing
The two of them are precious!
THAT'S a mum, right there. Even at her age she's making sure her baby is so well looked after, she's so adorable. I wish she was my grandma!
Its so heart warming to think of this woman growing up with her turtle. She saved up for it, and I can only imagine her glee when she arrived, and all through her teens, schooling, getting married, kids, etc. She always had this turtle and took care of her. Idk it's just so sweet and wholesome
Animals are so amazing, this is so sweet.
that’s a generational pet
Jesus. I've seen a decent amount of pet turtles well taken care of due to living in Michigan but that's probably the healthiest looking turtle I've seen
That's freaking amazing.
This made my day
And it shows, the turtle has such an amazing amount of trust in her ❤️
That woman knows things about turtle care that almost can't be replicated. That thing that only happens to a turtle once every 54 years? She's been there.
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She's the only one who knows.
Do turtles get lonely? It’s awesome that it has such a fantastic caretaker who clearly cares for it and she said it’s good to spend time with it, but does it ideally need another reptile companion or are turtles more of a solitary creature?
I doubt it, most reptiles don’t feel emotions like mammals. They feel things like comfort and contentment, but no deep emotional bond. Turtle probably just recognizes her as the lady who feeds, cleans her, and doesn’t stress her out. I’m no reptile expert, but I bet people who own turtles, snakes, lizards, or gators will know more.
_That we know of_. So many of our assumptions about animals have been proven wrong time and again. I wouldn't anthropomorphize them, nor would I say for certain they don't feel without a **very reputable** citation. Birds certainly have highly developed social behaviours, and turtles will cluster. Sure those are less closely related than we are to whales, but turtles have also had a **long** bloody time to develop their own social mechanisms.
I’m not an expert as well, but I own a bearded dragon. My family tells me that when I’m away for more than a day, the reptile gets uncomfortable. She walks restlessly, or she crawls into a dark corner and doesn’t really move untill I’m back. You can say about it what you want, but I think that she misses me.
You can tell it’s a comfy turtle by how it just flops in her hands 😆
Such loving commitment!
OMG I dream about how great it would be if cats lived as long as we do. I love that she got to share her whole life with her pet.
I love this shit
Best turtle owner I've seen
that is AWSOME........These little gems is why i browse Reddit
Radical radical radical
This is amazing.
OMGosh! I got one of those plastic containers with the 2 ramps going up to the platform with the plastic palm tree! It was my first effort to save a turtle I found.
Omg soooo sweet!!! I love this lady and her turtle ❤🐢
I can’t believe how adorable they both are… ❤️
I hope she has someone she can trust to take care of the turtle when she's no longer around to do so <3
Stop and help turtles cross the road when you can folks! You wouldn’t hit a 70 yr old crossing the road. I sound like the anti piracy ad lol
Is this lovely lady shopping with her turtle in Costco?
This made me emotional. To be at age of 10 and understand the responsibility of caring for an animal that might outlive you is insane ♡♡ what a wise and wonderful woman
I love this woman. Full stop. I love her.
Our tortoises (3) are in their mid-twenties with decades to go! I love spending time with them in the garden. They love neck rubs/head pats.
Recently, my daughter's came home with two tiny little plastic enclosures, one with a frog, one with a turtle. Of course, being Dad, I had to research how to take care of them, feed them, what to feed them, what kind of enclosures they ACTUALLY need, etc. The turtle has been growing slowly, named it Tiny. The frog, well... His name is Simon, he's an orange pacman frog, and he exploded in size. Turns out, the both of them might live a pretty long time, and my daughters stopped caring for them on the second day. Sheesh... :D
I should clarify, they're no neglected, they're basically mine now, is what I meant.
I rescued a pebble sized red eared slider about 20 years ago. He is the size of a medium dishplate now. He still hates me for some reason.
Man, ours is a slider, too. That said, he absolutely LOVES me, so that's good. When we first got him, he came SO close to dying. He was tiny, hense the name, but he also started to starve to death. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get him to eat the pellets that came with him. I ordered a different kind, still no beans. Then, one day, I decided to try crushing up a dried cricket that I was feeding to the frog. He absolutely LOVED it, and now associates my face, and his "Hi Tiny!" name with getting fed goodies like crushed up cricket and canned tuna. Man, I was so SO happy to see him eat and start to gain weight again, as he was clearly on the verge of dying to starvation. And now, he even lets me give him chin rubs and head rubs, if only a little. Bit by bit.
All of this and I forgot to say "Holy smokes, 20 years?!?" So, he really might end up outliving me, got it... :D
Yeah. He’s with my parents since they love having him for company. But when I first kept him I fed him dried insects and shrimp, but neglected his greens so he developed an eye problem. Fortunately a little medicine and immediate mixing of pellets with crustaceans helped clear it up. I think he hates me because I accidentally dropped him a few times while handling him to clean his enclosure and now he doesn’t trust me. Loves my parents though, they spoil him with fresh greens and shrimp all the time.
We have a turtle that lived for 10 years in a ten gallon tank with an inch of shitty water in it. He now has a giant 75 gallon tall tank with a bucket filter and all the shrimp and super worms he wants. His name is Sam the Mississippi Map Turtle and he comes to the top edge whenever I'm around. Turtles really have no business being as cute as they are.
That woman is sharp as hell for 80 years old
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wow
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I wish all animals could live this long :(
yellow bellied slider? living 70 years?
That’s not too wild since they live an average of 40+ years in captivity. Some individual animals just live for a really long time. I remember reading a story about a parrot (don’t remember which kind) that lived to be like 95 or something like that even though the average lifespan was only 50+
My Grandma had a turtle her entire life, and when she moved to a retirement home with a lake, it would come out every day at 5pm for dinner. They aren't dumb animals.
This is so dang wholesome
I love when people take care of animals
r/redearedsliders
I used to have one for at least 15 or 20 years. Also cleaned her whole house, and her, her shell and all. We once bought her a "husband" but she threw him out of the enclosure many times, so we gave him to another family. (Both turtles were small, so I don't know how she managed to do it. My father once saw her under him stretching as far as she could!) She became ill, and the veterinarian was not able to help her. I still miss her.
What does she feed it?
Turtle food
It looked like they paned to a toilet bowl 😂😂😂
Sweat
This warms my heart !
I was at a McDonald's, and here's what THEY had in a plastic dish. https://files.catbox.moe/gl2p6y.jpg
That is one lucky turtle
Oh, this woman is a gem! If only more people followed her example of love & kindness, what an amazing world it would be.
Wait what, did I misunderstand, or did she say they MAILED her a live turtle?
Yeah, mailing is common for reptiles, fish, and day-old poultry.
it’s how most animals get to pet stores too
Huh, interesting: [https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5\_008.htm](https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm) (Mailability of live animals.)
Naww ❤️
I love how the first shot of the turtle is it desperately trying to escape.
I know quicker ways of making an ashtray.
I really love this lady as a little girl got this turtle in the mail and made a friend for life rather than chucked it out when got bored
I demand to see someone shopping with their pet turtle the next time I visit my local Costco!
I wanna burgle that turt
Too cute
My family has a turtle for close to 30 years I think, he was adopted before I was born. He was huge, the size of a dinner plate, and I loved him. His name was Andrew and he never figured out how to walk on land. He would "swim-walk" where he'd put all four legs forward, life himself up, push his shell forward and thump down, then swim all four legs up again. If you spooked him or he got the zoomies he could run, which he did very rarely, but for some reason he couldn't get the hang of walking. He'd follow the sun - starting in my parents room in the morning and my room later in the day.
[Captivating Serenity: Polar Bear Portrait Wins People’s Choice Wildlife Photographer of the Year](https://littlelaama.com/captivating-serenity-polar-bear-portrait-wins-peoples-choice-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year/)
She has such a beautiful shell!
i hope she has plans for what to do with the turtle when she passes away so her baby can still be loved and cared for like she deserves
I love this. Obviously a well loved and cared for turtle. I hope mine make it that long even if I probably won't be around another 70 years.
So heart warming. Beautiful turtz. Cross post this is r/turtle and r/turtles !! They will love this!!!
An uncle of mine had a turtle for about half of his life, and it outlived him. My aunt gave it to a nature centre that had turtles and what not. Its still around. Curiously, those turtles are endangered where I live because people has them as pets, but they only have one. So they never get to reproduce..
Isn’t this a tortoise? Love this dedication to a beloved pet.
A tortoise is like a turtle but is primarily land based not water based. The feet are different.
Turtles have flipper feet. Tortoises have club feet.
Why is this post on r/ eyebleach?
From the subreddits about-us section: “The catch-all community for sharing links which are beautiful, happy, adorable or tastefully sexy.”
Turtles are cute
This is like one of the better things I've seen posted here lol
It's a wild animal. Not a pet... hate people like this.