Axle's 3rd BIRTHDAY!!!

[kingrattus]

I don't remember the day I got Axle, but I know today is really close to that day, so I'm gonna make today Axle's 3rd BIRTHDAY!!! YAY to My big baby :)

Go to my website to see pics of Axle: Axle's Page (http://iahu.ca/jess/modules.php?set_albumName=album07&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php)

Here r his current measurments/weight:

Weight: 10+ pounds (the scale is off)
Shell length: 9.5 inches
Shell width: 8 inches
Shell hight: 4 inches
Longest Claw: 0.8 inches
Tail length: 9 inches
Tail thickness: 2 inches
Skull length: 3.5 inches
Skull width: 3 inches

Isn't he a HUGE boy!!!
& I finally got some fat on his skinny butt heheh...

[ChloeLove]

Happy birthday Axle! Axle sure did grow! He's adorable! =o)

[GoldenRetrLuver]

WOW! Hes soo big! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AXLE!

[kingrattus]

Axle is growing like BAD weed.

My last common snapping turtle "Sniper" wsa 4yrs old & was 1 pound or less. & Axle is 3 yrs old & is 10 pounds or more!!!

[CathyBogart]

Go Azle!! Happy birthday! What a handsome baby!! ^_^

[kingrattus]

Axle would like to thank the "3" PTers for wishing him a Happy Birthday.

[Airedalekisses]

Happy Birthday Axel!! If you love someone you feed them-so you are well loved, my dear! Besides turtles look good with that nice "ottoman" appearance. :D

[wolfsoul]

Happy birthday Axle! :)

[kingrattus]

"ottoman" appearance?? huh?? I don't get it sorry.

[LoudLou]

WoW! I don't know how I missed your Birthday Axle... :o I'm so sorry! I certainly hope you had a terriffic one.... You've come a LONG way in 3 years!

[Airedalekisses]

Ottoman appearance-one of those overstuffed footstools nice and poofy and comfy!

[kingrattus]

So thats how u spell Ottoman, now I know what it is, just never seen the word before, I thought it was auto-man.. hehehe

During the summer he put on alot of weight, mostly fat, cause he eats almost nothing during the winter. I turn off his heater so he can go into a simi-hybernation. a full hybernation would mostlikely kill him, & not hyernating would cost me way too much $$ in food & heating his pond, & he gets cranky when he's not simi-hybernating, & boy do I mean cranky. He gets all hissy, doesn't snap, he'll hiss open his mouth to hiss louder & then I close his mouth & he'll just hiss... Axle's hisssss is very different from a cat or a snake. Its more like deep breathing, people can do it to through our noses.

[Kfamr]

I'm late but, Happy Birthday Axle! :)

[kingrattus]

Your never too late :)
Its the thought that counts :)

[Karen]

Happy Happy Birthday Axle - and who says it's late, maybe his hatch-day really is today, or tomorrow, or ... Whenever he decides to celebrate! :)

Treats for Axle!

[zanzanfergie]

Sorry I'm late, too, but happy birthday Axle! :D By the look of his photo album you're right, he has grown! Must be all the good stuff (and not just food) you're feeding him ;)

[kingrattus]

Thanks guys :)

His special teat is a big tub of fruit.
& I also learned that 1 piece of fruit left at the bottom of the pond, makes the WHOLE pond turn brown & gross. What a sick mess... oi!! I SOOOOOOOOO don't want to put my hand in that water... yucky!!!!

Well I know for fact he was hatched before July. It was at the last week of June. It was just before I got my first Rat Mike. But it doesn't really matter, he doesn't know any better hehehe