Hi thanks for getting back, after looking at a few pictures I think you could be right about it being a cooter of some sort, it has a yellow belly not red though.

I am in the UK so it would have been captive bred, but I have no information on where it came from. The basic story is, my housemate runs a Girl Guide unit and last night someone approached the unit and offered it to them as a pet. My housemate being a sucker for 20 kids pestering and asking can we keep it said yes on the basis that she knew nothing about them and since I keep reptiles I would know what to do with it. So now here I am trying to find out how to take care of it!! I`m not completely without knowledge though, I used to have a couple of red eared sliders when I was a teenager.

I am very worried about the eyes though. It was quite stressed last night after being poked by the kids in the unit but after leaving it over night in a quiet spot it has come to life a bit more this morning, but the eyes still have what looks like a bubble of some sort over them.
I know quite a good vet whose got reasonable experiance with herps close by so I`m will have to try and get it down to him.

Thanks.

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