What a great story!
Please tell me that turtle is living out his life safely in your care?
What a great story!
Please tell me that turtle is living out his life safely in your care?
Oh yes, I remember the commercials well!Because Timex used to have a slogan “It takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’”.... I still feel sadness about my carelessness though.
Oh yes, I remember the commercials well!
Of course you feel sad, but you rehabbed him well. Hopefully he's still out there, mucking through the mud.
That's exciting, and sure gives much validity to the territorial thing...WHOO HOO AND ZIPPITY DOO DAH!! My last lost turtle has come home!
I was looking over the fence as I always do when I'm out that way and there he was, just sauntering along without a care in the world.
I threw the hose down and went running for the gate. It's about 50' to the gate, then around the end of the fence and 50' back up to where I saw him. Naturally, by the time I got there he was nowhere to be seen. But I braved the low hanging branches of the thorny palo verde tree, and went the direction he had been going, and THERE HE WAS!!
'They' say that box turtles are territorial and will go through hell and high water to get back to their home territory. My gulf coast box turtles have lived here for over twenty years. It makes me very proud to realize that my gulf coast yard is homey and comfortable enough for my turtles to think of it as 'home'.