Post by turtlegirl on Oct 19, 2010 23:32:44 GMT
Hi
Came across this forum through Rescue Centre, I'm fairly new to turtles but have ended up with a large collection -10 in 7 months!
It all started in Feb during the Big Freeze when on impulse I adopted 3 unwanted adults (species unknown, possibly some kind of maps) that were going to be dumped in a canal. :oHad nowhere to keep them and knew nothing about turtles
but figured I might be able to keep them alive till I could find a reptile rescue to rehome them. Needless to say I fell in love with them before I could find one and kept them all - named them the Three Muskateers. They were then joined by Prince(ss) sold to his original owner,who couldn't keep him as she was off to uni ,as a female red ear but turned out to be a male false map!Then I adopted Sheldon, a male yellow belly someone found in the park and 3 young Mississippi maps (their tank broke and former owner didn't want to buy another). My latest are two really cute bright green yellow belly hatchlings, only 3 weeks old when I took them in but had already had 2 previous owners in their short life. I've learnt a lot in the past few months, largely from Wayne at Turtle Rescue, and I am please to say all my little, and not so little, ones are doing well. 
Came across this forum through Rescue Centre, I'm fairly new to turtles but have ended up with a large collection -10 in 7 months!
It all started in Feb during the Big Freeze when on impulse I adopted 3 unwanted adults (species unknown, possibly some kind of maps) that were going to be dumped in a canal. :oHad nowhere to keep them and knew nothing about turtles
but figured I might be able to keep them alive till I could find a reptile rescue to rehome them. Needless to say I fell in love with them before I could find one and kept them all - named them the Three Muskateers. They were then joined by Prince(ss) sold to his original owner,who couldn't keep him as she was off to uni ,as a female red ear but turned out to be a male false map!Then I adopted Sheldon, a male yellow belly someone found in the park and 3 young Mississippi maps (their tank broke and former owner didn't want to buy another). My latest are two really cute bright green yellow belly hatchlings, only 3 weeks old when I took them in but had already had 2 previous owners in their short life. I've learnt a lot in the past few months, largely from Wayne at Turtle Rescue, and I am please to say all my little, and not so little, ones are doing well. 
