I told my mom that I wanted the sick turtle in the pet store, because they were being miss treated & fairly sick. I got the smallest one & he (it was really a she in the end) had a huge growth on the side of his face. I was determand to get him better, get rid of the growth & give him a good life in the mean time. It took only 6 month to get rid of the growth & fatten him up & grow him some muscles so he could swim & walk properly. I fed him fish, turtle food, shrimp, worms, meat, goldfish food, bugs & water plants, I was trying to get him use to a wild diet & I almost never handled him, he became mean & kept trying to bite me, so once a night I would piss him off, so he wouldn't make the misstake of going near humans again, because when summer came, he hated people & was eating well & I set him free where he was stolen from the wild.
I named him Bummpy becuase of the growth, but when the growth was gone, his name didn't fit him anymore.
I still miss Bummpy.

Jess