Like beating one's head against a wall. But you all must know best.
I extend an olive branch by apologizing for making sweeping generalizations about breeders, and you all continue to jump on my back. So don't worry, if my turtles have a problem that I don't know about (because I can...
I apologize for quickly painting turtle breeders with a broad brush. I did not mean to be "dishonest". I've never met a turtle breeder in person, so I should not have generalized.from the captive-bred turtles I've seen, or the other animal breeders I've met. .
All the sites I've seen...
I think what this study may have been referring to was unscrupulous, greedy people grabbing every wild turtle they can en masse for the purpose of resale, and I'm not arguing that that has decimated the turtle population. How else would they have collected the data? Surveyed households across...
MODERATOR NOTE: These posts were removed from a different thread because it was getting off topic. Rob1985 is not the OP of this thread, I am. Yvonne
I'd really love to see the studies that say the decline in box turtle population is due in large part to people taking one here and there...
Can she get in and out of water container? I can't tell from the picture. If you're not sure, put her in and she if she can climb out.
I'd recommend some chicken wire or something over the top to keep out predators. Having lost a turtle years ago from lack of a protective cover, it's...
A handful of tact goes a long way....
First of all, they are outside, in a 6x6 pen. Maybe because my camera phone is so old and crappy, that wasn't clear, although a more careful eye would have discerned that from the wire grill that is evident in the foreground of the photo.
Second, it...
Mystery solved? Never seen anything like this in the year I've had them, normally they just stare at each other and then pass by like ships in the night....
I have two EBTs, and after reading posts on the forum, and many websites, I'm unsure about both of their genders. I've had them both since last summer, and I was operating off the assumption that one was female and the other male. However, I'm beginning to rethink this assumption, since I've...
Hi,
I've got two eastern box turtles in an outside pen / enclosure. I'm in the northeast, and we're having unusually warm and irregular (cold/warm) fall weather. I have no idea with the way this weather is going as to when the cold weather will stay. We're supposed to get two days in the...