Nellie Rose
Active Member
This is Napoleon. He is 29 years old, I adopted him a few months back. I believe he is an eastern painted turtle, although I'm not sure of the subspecies. He is almost exactly 5 inches long, if not slightly smaller.
He's an active little guy, and is never full, I swear he could eat a horse.
I have a question for the seasoned keepers out there about life expectancy. He is 29, so getting up there. The shelter made it sound like he could die at any moment. Idk, he seems pretty healthy and happy to me, but has very little muscle tone. I have no idea what his conditions were before as he was a surrender and the only information the old owner gave is that they had him 28 years, and a year later I found him.



He's an active little guy, and is never full, I swear he could eat a horse.
I have a question for the seasoned keepers out there about life expectancy. He is 29, so getting up there. The shelter made it sound like he could die at any moment. Idk, he seems pretty healthy and happy to me, but has very little muscle tone. I have no idea what his conditions were before as he was a surrender and the only information the old owner gave is that they had him 28 years, and a year later I found him.


