My pet growing up was a (spoiled rotten) western box turtle and it makes me feel so bad for how stressed out that little guy is in that picture right now.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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We had a Mississippi Map Turtle, and we he was new, I put him in a 10 gal tank, with a huge canister filter that filtered the entire tank every 10 minutes. It turns out Miss Maps are aquatic river turtles like crystal clean, moving water, so our Yoda thrived, and grew fast and big.
We eventually had a 55 gallon tank, and he outgrew that one, too. We couldn't keep him any longer, so we donated him to the local aquarium (who was very happy to take such a big, healthy specimen of a fairly rare turtle. That way he wouldn't be lonely, and could meet a lady turtle.
Water turtles are a job of work. I like box turtles, they like a dip now and then, but are mostly land turtles.
I get that.
A mouthful of salmonella.
It’s a turtle not a salmon.
I mean, you are not wrong. Dogs are more resilient to it, but they can still get sick.
Also seems like it would be pretty traumatic to the turtle.
she's a turtle retreiver, then!
That poor turtle is freaking the fuck out.
Probably not much more so than if a giant human came by and picked it up
The human probably won't pick it up with their teeth.
I read that as Borkin Spaniel at first.
edit: accidentally a letter
I read it twice and still managed to misread as Brooklyn.
She wants to bork but she has too much turtle in her mouth
I mean, that’s probably an accurate name, too.
Good girl