COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

If you're concerned about being polite, you'll do fine. Edit heavily & proofread before you send. And don't do it in public or say anything to shame her, certainly not to start.

I often start by saying how lucky it is to live in a place that still has a native population. How taking a single turtle from the wild affects the future population and removes large numbers of generations. How they don't transition to captivity and often die within the first year. How it's possible that the same wild turtle will show up every year. That I won't get into the legality of it because it's the point of the law - to protect turtles - that matters. That turtles are attractive and wonderful, and it's hard to let them go, but the right thing to do. Then point her to a place she can adopt an unreleasable captive turtle, or just say they exist and need care while this one needs to stay in the wild.

Hth

Spot on!
(in my humble opinion).

 

[johnandjade]

similar problem myself, i made an instagram account up... keep seeing pics of torts on pellets, steep water dish etc... to comment or not?

 

[johnandjade]

so the frog noise???

 

[ZEROPILOT]

so the frog noise???

The frog noise isn't some reference about the French, is it?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The biggest frog is the 3 foot long Goliath frog of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea and it is entirely mute.
I was hoping someone would say "Ribbit".
There are 4,360 known species of frog and only one of them goes "Ribbit".
The reason everyone thinks that all frogs go "Ribbit" is that it's the distinctive call of the Southern Pacific Tree Frog which lives in Hollywood ( and other places). So it's call has been plastered all over the movies for decades to enhance the atmosphere of anywhere from The Everglades to the Vietnamese jungle, but it doesn't occur there of course.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

The frog noise isn't some reference about the French, is it?

As if I would!
Ahem.
But not this time, no.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Frogs make all different kinds of noises.
They croak, snore, grunt, trill, cluck, whoop whistle and growl.
They also make noises like sheep, cattle, squirrels and crickets, the barking tree frog yaps like a dog, the carpenter frog sounds like two carpenters hammering nails and Fowler's toad makes noises like a band of Red Indians whooping.
Most female frogs make no noise at all.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

What is 40 poles long by 4 poles wide ?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

About the Cuban "Barking" tree frog...
I had one when I was a teenager and had it for a few months and never thought anything about the name until one night, he did in fact bark!
It woke up the entire family and was then escorted outside and placed on the nearest tree.
(I know. Another introduced species)

 

[ZEROPILOT]

What is 40 poles long by 4 poles wide ?

Polish troops in marching formation?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

About the Cuban "Barking" tree frog...
I had one when I was a teenager and had it for a few months and never thought anything about the name until one night, he did in fact bark!
It woke up the entire family and was then escorted outside and placed on the nearest tree.
(I know. Another introduced species)

Hope he was ok.
Did you hear from him again ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Polish troops in marching formation?

Ha de ha ha.
But, no.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Hope he was ok.
Did you hear from him again ?

No

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

No

Must've hopped it.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

No

Or croaked.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Or croaked.

NICE

 

[johnandjade]

Or croaked.

toad you that migh happen:/

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

NICE

Sorry, I couldn't resist, but it has to be one or the other.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Is the rest of the world THAT much cornier than America?

 

[johnandjade]

5bells in uk... freedom! think fluffy will let me saddel him up to ride home?