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kensopher
at Tue Jan 29 06:20:44 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kensopher ]
We had a pet store like that where I used to work as a Vet. tech.. It used to be called "Last place on earth". We used to tell people, "That store is the last place on earth you would want to buy a pet!" Ugh, the parvo! Terrible, terrible, horrific disease...it almost brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it!
I personally disagree with the massive sale of Red-eared sliders, but for reasons other than salmonella. I will never forget wading through a pristine, cold, mountain stream in PA looking for Wood turtles. I saw about a 9 inch, dark, elongated turtle ambling along in the slowly flowing water of the shallows. My eyes widened and my heart fluttered. I ran forward, sloshing wildly towards the beautiful Wood turtle. I plunged my hand into the cool, crisp water and what emerged was a fully grown, adult, female Red-eared slider. And, bonus, she was gravid!! A cold PA stream habitat is a far cry from their native, warm, Southern US waters. These things are the Norway rats of the chelonian world.
They are a global chelonian crisis. Talk to any Zoology-minded person from virtually anywhere in the world. Unless they live close to the poles, Red-eared sliders are there!
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RE: Just came across this: - kensopher, Tue Jan 29 06:20:44 2008