Look what I just found on my backyard!!!

[M&M's Mommy]

I strongly urge you to try to locate a rescue (I could help if I knew your location) or at least contact your local shelters to ask about their reptile policies.

I have to leave for work soon, this is going to eat at me all day wondering what will happen to this little guy.

I'm willing to do anything to help the poor liltle guy. I just don't know how, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I'm willing to do anything to help the poor liltle guy. I just don't know how, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Can you take him to a nearby park with some trees and area for him to live?

[lizbud]

This is where I found help & rescue for the turtle in Indianapolis.

http://www.pogospals.com/


You should be able to find a place in you city or at least, your state.

Just google turtle rescue & then , your city.

[Sophist]

Can you take him to a nearby park with some trees and area for him to live?

No, no, no!

Even if it was a NATIVE reptile, it would be quite traumatic to it to move it so far. If it was suited to life in the wild, it would already be buried and hibernating. In any case, this is not a California turtle, which not only means trouble for the turtle but also for M&M's Mommy if she is caught dumping it there.


I am a little amazed at the number of PT'ers who (especially after it having already been clearly established that she is in an urban area and this is not the turtles' native habitat) are in favor of just abandoning it. A cat would have a much better chance of surviving, but I don't think anybody would be so callous as to suggest dumping a kitty.

[K9soul]

I am a little amazed at the number of PT'ers who (especially after it having already been clearly established that she is in an urban area and this is not the turtles' native habitat) are in favor of just abandoning it. A cat would have a much better chance of surviving, but I don't think anybody would be so callous as to suggest dumping a kitty.

Sophist, I understand your concern. I keep checking back to see any updates. Reptiles and especially turtles/tortoises have a special place in my heart. But only one person has mentioned release after it was established that the turtle is not native there, and she probably just hadn't read through all the replies (happens often). I had made my original suggestions based on the thought that the turtle was a wild turtle there. I lived in town and frequently had turtles visit our back yard, even had them hibernate in the brush pile before. Sometimes on a warm day in November, December etc, they'd come out and scrounge a bit before burrowing back down. I guess that is what I was thinking of with this little girl. Now that more information is revealed, I'm in complete agreement with your advice.

[Sophist]

Sophist, I understand your concern. I keep checking back to see any updates. Reptiles and especially turtles/tortoises have a special place in my heart. But only one person has mentioned release after it was established that the turtle is not native there, and she probably just hadn't read through all the replies (happens often). I had made my original suggestions based on the thought that the turtle was a wild turtle there. I lived in town and frequently had turtles visit our back yard, even had them hibernate in the brush pile before. Sometimes on a warm day in November, December etc, they'd come out and scrounge a bit before burrowing back down. I guess that is what I was thinking of with this little girl. Now that more information is revealed, I'm in complete agreement with your advice.

She did establish pretty early on she was a city-dweller, though.

[Uabassoon]

She did establish pretty early on she was a city-dweller, though.

I'm a city-dweller as well and I seen desert tortiouses near my house.

[Sophist]

I'm a city-dweller as well and I seen desert tortiouses near my house.

I've lived in Orange County before, and trust me... you don't see many. Especially not many that don't live in the wild areas of Cali.

M&M's Mom, have you still just left it in the yard? It does not sound like a healthy terrapin, so this worries me a lot. Did you try to contact Reptile Rhapsody like I suggested? Have you recieved a reply email?