Turtle
Posted on August 13, 2008 - Filed Under Life, Pets, Stories, Summer
I had an appoitment yesterday afternoon, more on that later, and arrived home to find a guest in our house.
While I was gone Toni left the back door open most of the day so the dogs could run in and out as they please. I arrived home from my appointment around 2:15pm to find a turtle shell in the back room. I thought it was something Toni bought for the dogs to chew on or something… then I took a closer look.
It was a real turtle.
The turtle was roughly 5 or 6 inches long and was pulled back into his shell. The dogs found him in the back yard and decided to “play” with him, chewing on the shell and keeping him as their “pet”.
I picked the turtle up and inspected him. No damage to limbs or head, and the under side was ok. The damage was just to the top of his shell where the dogs had tried to chew.
I asked Toni why there was a turtle in the house and she flipped. :) She was freaking out and wondering where it had come from. We were both pretty concerned for his health as he’d spent some time being gnawed on by Comet and Niko, and niether of us have turtle experience.
We called the Pierce County Humane society and they advised us to look up a rescue group that would take the turtle or read up on turtle care if we decided to keep it.
No way we were keeping it, then Toni had an idea. She wondered if it belonged to someone living in one of the homes around us. After a few calls it turns out the turtle belonged to a friend of Travis that lives two homes down from us.
The turtle happend to be a “Russian Tortoise“, one of two that escaped two days earlier. The owners found the other turtle but had been looking for “ours” ever since. It was a somewhat happy reunionn witht he owner until she saw the chew marks. She seemed upset with us, but the reality is that it wandered into our yard and the dogs were just doing what their instinct tells them to do.
Toni is going to pay the owners a visit today to see if the turtle is ok.
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