Mark asked about spotted turtles. I know of a park in nearby northern Virginia where the spotted turtle still lives. When i was a youngster, my mom took my younger sister and me to Philadelphia on the train. While on the train, I spotted a baby spotted turtle walking down the aisle. I jumped down and caught it, and we kept it in a drink cup for the duration of the trip and subsequent visit. Back home, it became a part of my menagerie. But it soon came to a sad end. I had some goldfish at the time, and one of them died. So we (my mom, sister and I) took it into the bathroom and flushed it down the toilet. The turtle disappeared a few days later. When we wondered aloud about what might have happened to it, my sister piped up "turty go flush." That story still stings me seventy years later. Other than genuinely domesticated animals, to this day I'm reluctant to keep animals in captivity. My box turtle scheme would have been based on locally sourced turtles not deemed suitable for release to the wild because of injuries.
Jim McKenneyMontgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the commonest local turtle is probably the very adaptable snapping turtle.
On Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 03:54:59 PM EDT, Mark Mazer <markemazer@gmail.com> wrote:
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