WOW Terry. How sad it must have been to lose your lttle 65 year old friend. Your dad sounded like a great guy!
We also had the poor little green turtles in the plastic palm tree pool. I lost mine in the house for 8 days. Never told my parents as they would be furious, of course. Thinking he was dead under some dresser in the house, I was mortified. You can imagine my elation when he came strutting into the middle of the living room one night as we all watched tv.
Unfortunately, none of those little guys lived to adulthood.
As a preteen, I had a box turtle for a while. I traded him for a RES as housing was more difficult than for a water turtle. My water turtle disappeared. I think stolen.
I did not get my current torts til I was 55. I gathered many books over the years, joined a turtle and tort society off and on, and gave it much thought, but never acted on my desire to be a tort mom. Such a big commitment. With my husband's 30 year Navy career, we were always on the move.
The Internet made it so much easier to get info in recent years. So I was able to research different species and make a choice.
Ann from CT
We also had the poor little green turtles in the plastic palm tree pool. I lost mine in the house for 8 days. Never told my parents as they would be furious, of course. Thinking he was dead under some dresser in the house, I was mortified. You can imagine my elation when he came strutting into the middle of the living room one night as we all watched tv.
Unfortunately, none of those little guys lived to adulthood.
As a preteen, I had a box turtle for a while. I traded him for a RES as housing was more difficult than for a water turtle. My water turtle disappeared. I think stolen.
I did not get my current torts til I was 55. I gathered many books over the years, joined a turtle and tort society off and on, and gave it much thought, but never acted on my desire to be a tort mom. Such a big commitment. With my husband's 30 year Navy career, we were always on the move.
The Internet made it so much easier to get info in recent years. So I was able to research different species and make a choice.
Ann from CT