turtles are nice little chaps

These ones aren't nice.

A few of my friends had pet turtles back in the day, and washing your hands afterward was something that got drilled into your heads. I'm sure this isn't a case of bad turtling as much as lazy parenting.

I want to know if these turtles got smuggled in! Poor little turtles.

no, lickin turtle s is as healthy as oj in the mornin

-- Mike Hanle y, Sunday, December 23, 2001 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

LOL

i approve of this thread

more pictures pls

http://www.govisitcostarica.com/images/uploads/detail/optimized/baby-turtle.jpg

http://bp3.blogger.com/_SRMzAQj7zTA/RlRiX5z-MTI/AAAAAAAAAJI/waoz0tlDr5M/s1600-h/baby+paint.jpg

http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2007-05/soft-shelled-turtle.jpg

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Dale Gribble kisses his turtles. That should be enough to convince you it's a bad bad idea.

I think it's the painted turtles in particular that are more known for the fatal feces, but yeah, I remember as a kid (and I'm an old fucker) to always wash my hands after handling turtles, painted turtles in particular..(not the totally awesome box turtle pictured right above, of which one reverse-adopted me as a kid. I fed that thing so many strawberries and sowbugs. He/she kicked ass.)

I had one too! We picked it up off the road of Kentucky. Later, back in my home of Green River, Wyo., it was ran over by a car on Bridger Drive. RIP turtle 19??-1988.

http://www.northrup.org/photos/crap/Animals/low/turtles-doin-it.jpg

john wins.

GIANT TURTLE

my wife and i just inherited two red eared slider turtles. i'm practically having panic attacks because one of them has a fungal infection. and i'm like "we need a $90 filter, an a $200 aquarium and 18 different kinds of food and aaagghh" when the girl who gave them to us kept them in what are basically giant tupperware containers and fed them turtle food and occasional vegetables.

but we don't have that kind of idiot luck, so panic panic panic.

LJin' over here.

THEY CAN LIVE FOR FORTY FUCKING YEARS!

http://www.turtlesite.info/pictures/Turtle,Red-eared_Slider.jpg

yeah, that's pretty much what they look like. the soul-sucking little jerks. cute as hell.

we have to divide the tank because the older one keeps trying to bite the younger one and chasing him around. c'mon, you guys are turtles. TURTLES. behave.

My current wallpaper:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/potd-turtlestrawberry.jpg

turtles will fuck ur shit up

i tongue kiss them
-- Mike Hanle y, Friday, December 21, 2001 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

I LIKE TOITLES

I really adore turtles. I think I would like to own one or two someday.

tortoises are one of my favorite animals.

laurel's picture just killed me.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2565583199_24b41e549e_m.jpg

er... i meant:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3068/2565583199_24b41e549e_m.jpg

Laurel & lauren bringing the cuets swoonage to my day! :D

yeah, they are super-cute

his name is tanaka.

he assumes that anything that comes near his tank is food and goes nuts trying to get to whatever it is, making really cute chomping motions.

There is a 'natural history museum' for kids at my mall and they have tanks with some red-eared sliders, one with two soft-shells, and one with this craggy old beast of a snapping turtle, his shell all coated in this freshwater mossy plant. I can just watch them forever. The soft-shells are so beautiful, but they look like aliens, too, all flat and smooth with that weird sucker-nose. The snapper's my favorite though – he's got that 'wise old turtle' thing, but he also seems a complete salty bastard. They're just inspiring.

OMG Tanaka is a great name!

http://www.emporia.edu/~delmottp/bigbite.jpg

now for something REALLY twee:

http://turtlebuffet.com/pics/Lyuwonoi_eating_by_M_Nesbi.jpg

The pond turtles at this mineral water springs place we went to in Desert Hot Springs were SUPER tame and would RUN up to you looking for food:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/2692238112_f50c1d661b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2692238806_336e41d73f.jpg

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

cute-overload

does not compute

pure chewing satisfaction

owmph

talk about yr shmoopapotami (sp?)

some of my favorite childhood memories are from when we lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and occasionally I'd find a turtle and my mom would let me keep it for a few days, then set it back out into the world. turtles gotta be like the most endearing non-mammal known to man.

yeah, it's weird, b/c they are cold-blooded reptiles and all that but are yet so endearing, at least on the cute level, as compared to yr avg. snake entity

agh, that strawberry picture is killing me

lol, "cold-blooded"? you should meet my mother-in-law!

The top "pond turtle" of felicity's looks just like my boyfriend's red-eared slider (um), and I would not like to have that running up to my toes looking for food, vicious bitey critter that it is (but cute, of course).

Anyway, he says - the boyfriend, not the terrapin - that a big enough terrarium is important (and be warned that they grow as big as their environment can take, so if they've been cramped and they get a bigger home they're going to grow) and a heater and a sun-lamp + sunning rock (might be more optional where you are than in the UK climate), but apart from that they're fairly resilient. His is in her late teens and for the past decade has mainly eaten mealworms and not much else; she refuses to eat any of the salad leaves or vegetable pellets we give her, so if yours are currently eating their veggies this is probably worth encouraging.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/23/tortoise-hates-cats.html

we went to vacation on isla mujeres in mexico and we rented a golf cart and were driving around. anyway we found a government run turtle center thing where they raise up lil' baby turtles and then let them out into the wild. they also have a couple of HUGE turtles in these enclosed areas on the shoreline. all the lil' bbay turtz were real cute.

aw, geez

heartbreaker

the vid. i mean

no interest or feeling for these animals whatsoever

When my wife and I went to Maui a few years ago, we ate lunch one day at a little place in Lahaina whose name escapes me, right on the water. While we ate, there were, like, scads of sea turtles coming right up near the restaurant, popping their little heads up out of the surf every couple of minutes. Adorable.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/128344054147187500muncheiz1.jpg

http://wallout.com/files/images/Raspberry_Turtle.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/2qdwu41.jpg

I prefer to contemplate turtles in the wild.

I am the proud owner of a tiny little painted turtle named Lil' Jup (as in "joop," short for Jupiter). One day, perhaps, I will post a photo of him on this thread.

Also, you should keep turtles away from your cats:

lol, what is that tortoise's problem?

My turtle is shedding his skin right now and it is pretty damn amusing.

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/f81280aa85fd953392cd19d1f26bd61b68b2a8e8_m.jpg

i tongue kiss them
-- Mike Hanle y, Friday, December 21, 2001 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

still my favorite post on this thread ... o_O

http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicshithead3.png

O_o

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=296_1248353127

That takes a lot longer than I thought it would for a turtle.

Turtles are noisy little chaps. Our red-eared slider likes to get in one corner of the tank and swim frantically against the tank wall, scratching her toes against the plastic. ALL DAY (and night). Really hoping the neighbours can't hear.

The first time she did this it was egg-laying time and we hadn't provided a big enough sandbox to lay in, but now she just gets phases of scratching, and last time we put out the sandbox she didn't lay any eggs, just repeatedly flipped the sandbox over to catapult sand over the living room.

(She's pretty clever at learning from previous escape attempts, so I believe this was a deliberate form of amusement)

I am posting this maybe in case someone says "we had that, here is how we stopped it" but mostly because I have a day off and it's happening now and it's hard to think about much else.

Just have a talk with it

eat it?

http://oi32.tinypic.com/280v78g.jpg

I have placed a variety of tank ornaments (logs, rocks, etc) at the scratching end and am watching her devise ways to move them out of the way, climb up them to see if she can get over the edge of the tank, etc. Unfortunately it doesn't take her long.

Next pet needs to be less clever.

i love the title of this thread

Me too. It reminds me of "the different kinds of tea that cats like" :)

maybe you need a torus-shaped tank so she can keep swimming in the same direction without actually leaving the tank

or position a video like this one at the scratching end. That way she'll think she's heading back to the seaside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGAspObwHc

I like the music! In a hits-all-my-80s-childhood-buttons way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipdVEaT1jLA

they try hard

I have a Texas spiny softshell turtle, and he was doing all the scratching. I kept saying, "Chareth, you are making my life into an Edgar Allen Poe story." Eventually he stopped. So you may want to teach your turtle some empathy via literary allusion.

Also I think it helps that his tank has a gratingly loud filter.

well-played abbbottt

i bought you expensive new lamp
why you lurk so far away from it

no, lickin turtle s is as healthy as oj in the mornin
― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, December 23, 2001 8:00 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i bought you expensive new lamp
why you lurk so far away from it

i see. you lurk so far away from it because it is at the wrong angle. which means i should also have bought the extra stand for more $$$. but i feel like if i throw more money at it i'll find a new problem and just have spent more money for no reason. and i probably can't take it back because it works but i just didn't do my homework.

this is why we can't have nice things

talking of which i should not ruin the hanle y poetr y thread with mundane observations and self-loathing

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6r9zzqfhZso/UGpln3USDmI/AAAAAAAABFg/68WM7T34IE8/s1600/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-vinci-carnival-mascot-costume142412828.jpg

nice turtle

i think this is god pic.twitter.com/bRbYI3v5EA

— whistled the lark as the arrow lost its way (@swarmingrats) May 16, 2020

I'm in awe

my lord

That's a photo from Task Force Turtle - they've got videos too

Check out this HD (check your settings!) snippet from #SNAPPERCAM - a female snapping #turtle, navigating through her swampy home! Footage like this is teaching us tons about #cognition, #behavior, and #ecology in wild turtles! A big win for #herpetology! pic.twitter.com/vYi7bfuymT

— Task Force Turtle (@TaskForceTurtle) July 12, 2018

great reanimation