I have been feeding my eastern box turtles cantaloupe. I grow my own and right now I have lots. In the morning before I go to work I would cut one up and leave a few pieces in the turtle pen. My turtles love their cantaloupe. They eat the rind along with the juicy meaty part. The next day I would remove what ever they did not eat. Last week when I would go out in the morning there was never any cantaloupe left. Yesterday my wife told me she saw the biggest ground hog she says she has ever seen. She told me it jumped over the side of the pen and eats the remaining cantaloupe. As far as I know ground hogs don’t eat any meat they just eat plants. I have also seen chipmunks, squirrels and lots of birds using the small pond that I made for the turtles. So far no one has tried attacking any of the turtles. As of now, I’m going to just let any one that wants to share the turtle pond or help them self to any left over food alone.
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Jack

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• ground hogs - jack, Fri Jul 28 19:49:46 2006
• RE: ground hogs - golfdiva, Fri Jul 28 20:26:36 2006
• Zap 'em! - kensopher, Sat Jul 29 05:41:47 2006