Purplechic
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Okay 4 months ago I got a turtle (Myrtle) that I was told was crossing the street and could have gotten hit by a car and the little kid brought her home and didn't remember where the turtle came from and I wanted a turtle so I was like really excited and I took her in. I've been researching and researching and researching to try and give her the best life. I don't know if I'm doing the right thing because it doesn't seem like she's eating now. Grant you I tried her on lettuce I tried her on every single green every single fruit you could think of with vitamins and calcium sprinkled on the only thing I was ever able to get her to eat were strawberries, mushrooms and carrots and box turtle food, however now it doesn't seem like she's eating now I've been giving her baby nightcrawlers she ate them the superworms she ate them but now she doesn't want them, Grant you there were some times where when she didn't eat them they stayed in the cage so I don't know if she's finding them under the substrate and that's why she's not eating now. I don't know can you please just look at this and tell me if I'm off the beaten path here because I take her out and I let her walk around my kitchen she does laps in fact she sneaks out and she gets on my carpet and then I have to bring her back but she hisses she hisses when I pick her up and she never used to hiss and now it makes me wonder is she mad at me and she unhappy? should I let her go? I talk to a friend that I got the turtle from she informed me, that she found out that this kid just picked up that turtle from his backyard and his pond and now I feel awful so then I'm saying to myself do I trust him to bring her back and will she be okay or is she okay with me? I'm like I'll confused she's healthy looking I think what do you think? Am I wrong? I worked so hard to make her happy she laid four eggs two of them are still buried the other two I had to get rid of because they caved and they broke. At night she used to put her head underneath the substrate so I couldn't even see her but now she's actually laying out with her legs out or head out and she sleeps so I thought I was doing okay but with her hissing as much as she does whenever I go to pick her up, I don't know? By the way that's a little camera that I put on her so that I can see her when I'm at work, Thank you for taking the time to read this.