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hopefulmjz
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Midge For Bridget...
Posted: 06-12-07 13:42pm
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I knew you liked the name .midge, so when
I saw this little fella/lady....the name
.midge popped into my mind. So just for
you I think his/her name will be .midge
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 06-12-07 13:47pm
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lol!! YOu are so silly!!
turtles stink!!!! hahahaha, I just don't
like reptiles.
YOu should get it nice and fat and cook
it!! Turtle soup is deeee-lish!!
Sarah
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hopefulmjz
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Posted: 06-12-07 13:54pm
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| babymajic0506
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YOu should get it nice and fat and cook
it!! Turtle soup is deeee-lish!!
Sarah |
lmao! I've never eaten turtle....I don't
think I could, he's so cute! And yes I am
silly. My cousin was at her friends house,
and they have a pond behind their house,
and they found it walking around in the
grass and brought it to me. So I thanked
them kindly...my plan was to let him go
again, but my hubby doesn't seem to think
he can survive out there.......but that's
his natural habitat, so I think he'd do
just fine.
Adriana likes to watch him. They had him
in a little "bug house" w/o water, so he
was kinda droopy. I made a makeshift home
for him for now with some water and land
and he's swimmin' like a mad turtle. He
doesn't seem scared either, he doesn't go
in his shell if you reach for him.
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 06-12-07 13:55pm
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Turtle is sooo yummy girl!!! My aunt makes
it and it's oooonn tiiiime!!!
I'm hungry now!!! 
Sarah
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musikmaker
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Posted: 06-12-07 13:56pm
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Oooh, whenever I was growing up we had
turtles. Where did you find this one? In
Il you can't sell them that small.
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hopefulmjz
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:03pm
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My cousin and her friend found it behind
their house near a pond
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:04pm
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we have this place close to my house that
sells turtles, racoons, and squirrles for
cookin!!
I love my heritage. We got some goood
eatin!!
Sarah
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hopefulmjz
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:07pm
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wow! I've never heard of any place like
that. I don't think you can sell those
types of things around here. Well, besides
turtles once they reach a certain length.
It may be illegal for me to have this lil
guy
Anyone wanna bail me out?
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:14pm
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iilegal to have a turtle? Why because it
needs to be in it's habitat? I"m curious!
Sarah
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:22pm
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I've never heard of it to be illegal to
own one, just to sell it. My sister got
hers that little because one of her flute
students dad was a park ranger and the
mother had been ran over so he gave it to
her. It's illegal to own certain snakes
though. I do know that!
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:27pm
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snakes are the devil!! 
Just playin...Snakes are cool...if they're
nice!
Sarah
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:33pm
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.i am a reptile nut. .me and my boyfriend
own so many it isn't funny.
.what you have is a baby red-eared slider.
.it is illegal to sell them that small
because they are so young. .it will grow
to about 9 inches (shell length) and the
best way to tell if it is a boy or girl is
the nails. .oddly enough boys have longer
ones for mating purposes. .i would just
let it go. .they live fine in their
natural habitat and keeping them tends to
get stinky because filters can not keep up
with their 'waste production'
.sarah, eating turtle sounds icky. 
.are they any good?
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:40pm
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| babymajic0506
wrote: | we have this place close to
my house that sells turtles, racoons, and
squirrles for cookin!!
I love my heritage. We got some goood
eatin!!
Sarah |
oh
god, I barely eat cow and pig, I highly
doubt I could do road kill. lol
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:43pm
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bwahahahahaha .jess!!!!!!!! It's not
roadkill *yet*!! lol! We eat it before it
gets squished and decomposed! blah!!
Opal, yes, it's verrrrrry good!! I would
recommend it to anyone who hasn't tried
it!!
I would probably find it odd if I wasn't
raised eating it. But .oni's had turtle.
And she lerved it! They serve it at every
single restaurant around here.
Alligator, if cooked right, is
yummmmm-oooo! (gotta love rachael ray!)
Sarah
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Posted: 06-12-07 14:47pm
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.i would try anything once. .escargo is
very good when cooked correctly :yummy:.
.i think the weirdest thing .i have heard
of people eating is .bat .head .soup. .my
boyfriend and his family were invited to a
dinner get together at the parents of his
mother's student. .they are .asian .i
believe but .i am not sure which
nationality they are. .he said it was
nasty and their was actually a bat head
floating in the middle :gag:
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Posted: 06-12-07 15:51pm
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Well that's a bit of a relief! I knew it
was illegal to sell them this little, so I
thought it was illegal to own them this
small too.
Sarah, it's not illegal to have turtles
here.....but it is illegal to sell them
before they reach a certain length.
Opal....I thought this little one was a
painted turtle. I know red ear sliders and
painted look a lot alike.
*edited to add, I never thought to look
closely at the lil guy and just assumed it
was a painted turtle, since it's the most
common turtle around here.....so I went
and looked him over good and something got
the end of his tail, because it's missing
And I think it is a painter, since he
doesn't have the red markings on his face
(behind his eyes I think is where the red
ear sliders have the red)
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amethyst eyes
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Posted: 06-12-07 16:58pm
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.now that .i look closer you are right.
.it does not have the red markings on the
head but it does have red on the shell
which is not characteristic of a regular
red-ear.
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Posted: 06-12-07 23:43pm
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i want one!!! those things are like 50$
here
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Posted: 06-13-07 06:47am
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that turtle is soooo cute, we had a pet
that looked exactly like that one its a
yellow bellied pond slider, my sister got
it from a girl at school she traded her
chips for it lmao. but we brought it up,
we got a giant tub with some water and
fish rocks and part where he could swim
and then part where he could like
sunbathe, they have turtle logs u can feed
them, my turtle liked honey baked ham
though so we would always get him lunch
meat to eat cuz he loved it , we had it
for like 6-7 yrs and he got about as big
as a cd, then we had to give him away when
we moved. it was prob my most favorite
pet, but u gotta clean out its tank like
any other animal too, wich can get smelly
if not kept up with .
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