| Turtles are fun, though. They need a pond just for themselves.
I bought a beautiful and expensive exotic little map turtle of some kind one summer and kept it in an 8 foot stock tank. One day I had cleaned the tank and was refilling it and forgot about it. The tank overflowed and the turtle washed out and escaped. A few days later, there it was in the wild pond just below the house sunning on a stick.
I HAD to get my turtle back. I desiged a trap based on the sunning habit. After a week I had my pretty little turtle back. A few months later I overflowed the pond again and it escaped. I recaptured it.
The third time it escaped I gave up on it. I am too stupid to keep a turtle.
There are red ear and other kinds of cooters in that pond. Once in a while still I see my turtle, its beautifully colored neck stretching up to catch some rays in the logstack of other turtles. |