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PHRatz
at Fri Jun 17 09:45:36 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHRatz ]
Thanks Ric & Rob both for your opinions & I believe I will post her pics on that other board.
Now hmmm about her being intentionally hybridized, that's a thought. What prompted me to even ask about this is that I've read so much about the flaring on the Gulf coast turtles & I see some flaring on her.
I do believe she'd been kept for years & fed by someone with who knows what food to make her a little bit oddly lumpy. It's kind of like pyramiding but on the other hand does it look like the normal lumpiness of some ornates but bigger because she's so wide & flat? Or is it really pyramiding?
(I'm just kind of thinking out loud here lol)
She is a big pretty one, but she's odd looking to me. She has never behaved as if she had a clue about what it is to be wild. I don't think she ever has been in the wild, I think she'd spent her life in someone's backyard with other turtles somewhere & that's just based on how differently she behaves from formerly wild turtles like Shell E.
There are too many people here who keep too many box turtles in their backyard & feed them cat food. Because so many clueless do that, I just automatically assume that's the type of place she has been in.
Even though she's shy, I knew from the first time I fed her that she was used to being fed by someone.
I'll get some pics of her this weekend next to a ruler.
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PHRatz
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RE: Believe it's A Hybrid - PHRatz, Fri Jun 17 09:45:36 2005