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adamkidabra

On Turtles...

Aug 28, 2005 19:25

So my dad likes turtles. He has kept pet turtles practically all his life. When my sister was younger, we had 2 big ones named Ruby and Samantha, but after that, I don't think we really named them. We called them by a general description of their looks or breed (i.e. the big guy, the little guy, the new guy, the map turtle, yellow bellied cooter ( Read more... )

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poperatzii August 29 2005, 05:21:14 UTC

:'(

we have had a red-eared slider for like ten years. his name's Infra-Red. but we ususally just call him "the turtle".

adamkidabra August 29 2005, 05:30:41 UTC

Yeah, Red-eared sliders are mean lil' buggers. It's hard to get really attached enough to them to call them by a name. Haha.

And 10 years?! He must be very big by now. Though we once had a turtle who got a chip of his shell bitten off, and never grew again after that. He grew old, but stayed tiny.

faux_phoenix August 29 2005, 05:24:06 UTC

aw adam i'm so sorry. it's sad to lose a pet, i just lost a cat this month. :(. i hope your dad is okay, and everything.

adamkidabra August 29 2005, 05:28:27 UTC

He's alright. He sent me an email thanking me for taking care of the turtle, and saying how just yesterday, he fed him worms and the little guy would walk around the kiddie pool to follow him. Haha. He then said "I feel like Hagrid describing Buckbeak."

smilingstrange August 29 2005, 05:41:29 UTC

what a good post

it'll be cool to meet you on soon :)

and i love your dad's remark lol

adamkidabra August 29 2005, 14:24:23 UTC

Yeah, haha, that's the best way to describe it. Most people aren't terribly fond of turtles, or at least not as much as my dad is. I suppose he does have that "Hagrid:Buckbeak" relationship with them. Haha.

im really sorry fatandawesome August 29 2005, 05:47:07 UTC

my eyes are getting teary. my ferrets just died this year. noel died and bailey died right after her, but I knew that bailey was probably going to die. i think she was upset that noel died so she stopped eating.i had to force feed her and give her water through a straw. She wouldnt move the days befoe her death, so she went to the bathroom laying in clothes i wrapped around her because she was shaking and she was so small. i had to bathe her every day. after school i came and picked her up after holding her the night before for 2 hours, while you could barely hear her breathing. she must have died right before i came home because she was still warm. im sorry for your lost. losing animals stink. i might be at paulashouse around 5:30 tomorrow so tell me if i can stop by so ican say a quick goodbye. I'm going to miss you so much and you'll beamazing at brown.i need your address for brown.

Re: im really sorry adamkidabra August 29 2005, 05:50:36 UTC

Sure! Give my house a call beforehand.

windelkron August 29 2005, 12:59:00 UTC

Am man, that reminds me of how my fish would die. When they got weak they'd be sucked against the filter and the thing would shred their scales off, sometimes when they were still alive. It was horrible. I'd often turn on the light of the tank to see a fish just wrapped around the filter intake thing.
Do you suspect that he got his head stuck in there by accident, or was he sick and therefore couldn't prevent it? And you sad he shedded scales.. related?
Sorry for your loss :\ I don't know how I will feel when my cats die! :(

adamkidabra August 29 2005, 14:22:48 UTC

He would only eat once a week, but it would be a lot at a time (several worms). Reptiles have sloooowwww metabolisms, so they don't need feeding every day, or even every other day. So he wasn't weak, I guess. The scales (more like plates...)were not nessecarily his, and they shed scales every now and then when they grow. I doubt the shedding had anything to do with it, but I think the fact that the shards were stuck between his head and the inside of the tube make me thing that if the whiplash didn't kill him, the scales had him trapped there and he drowned. It is very difficult to get a head underneath the intake (it's more like a rectangular hard-plastic tube...), but I suppose that if he had his head DIRECTLY underneath and was caught by suprise, then the current could have pulled his head in. Though perhaps he was just an idiot (very likely.. haha..) and went to investigate the scales caught on the intake thinking they were, perhaps, worms ( ... )