Hiya,
I'm a new turtle owner. I've never even know anyone who owned a turtle before. His name is Boris and here's his story:
The day after Xmas my partner and I were in the 15th street subway station here in Philly and came across a man with a cardboard box...He had 3 or 4 red-ears in their own little plastic carry cases. All of the turtles had approx. 1-1½" long shells. This guy really saw me coming. As soon as I started the "their so cute!" routine he wanted to sell me all of them! I picked the one with the brightest eyes and the most energy. I knew they sold them in china town but I wasn't going to go out of my way to aquire another mouth to feed.
Since then he has graduated from that little plastic case to a bigger, flat plastic case to his new home of a 10 gallon tank.
He's doing really well and starting to shed.
Thanks for you're time.
Peace,
Cayte
