Rusky
Active Member
Pet stores are a disgrace. To be fair to the people with the whole turtles thing though, scientifically tortoises are under the larger category of turtles, i.e. all tortoises are turtles. It's just that the way some of us use the words, it makes it seem like they are separate creatures. For example, the turtle survival alliance includes tortoises.You're probably right, imagine the rioting if this had been a puppy.
Don't get me wrong! I know you gave her all the information she needed, but I looked at this as a young person that really needed the hand holding.
She puts this video out there completely oblivious to the fact that she's abusing these creatures, first thing I thought was who the heck put these in her hands without so much as the most basic of care instructions?!
Then I remembered watching a youtube video put on by a pet supply store called zamzows superstore, instruction how to set up for a russian tortoise, it really wasn't much different than what she had. so I figured because the aquarium still had the decal on it that some pet store sold this kid the BS she has.
The next video in the queue was titled " the 5 best turtles to own" and the first one the guy holds up is a Russian tortoise.
There's so much crap info out there it really is hard to convince people otherwise.
I'm just not happy to think that people like you quit trying to help, you obviously can help people do it right and I feel people like you need to continue putting a voice out there.