Thank-you for your input about my music dilemma. My turtles don't seem to stress out when I handle or move them, maybe that is because I have had all but one since they were hatchlings and they are used to me picking them up. Now if other people pick them up they try to get away. Maybe that is because they are used to my voice (I talk to them all the time) and the way I hold them. Anyway......I figure they will stay out in the pen even during band practice.
As for telling them to hold it down or move into the garage.....well, they have one but they can't get into it. and the holding it down part......I don't believe that is possible. There is an apartment building on the other side of their house so I think that is part of why it sounds so loud over here at my house. It probably is deflected to our side. If we are inside we don't hear it much, it is just when we are outside.
Anyway.....I guess the turtles will be fine. The last of the crew was up on top of their substrate yesterday so they are now outdoors as well. Yay! Now I can move their big wooden cages back outside and re-claim my garage. I might just try and let them hibernate outside next winter. More than likely I will move them back into the garage at that time though. I don't know.....maybe I am too protective of them.
They all seem to like their new pen. Of course it is in the same spot that they would come back to after walking around the yard the past years to bury down during the hot part of the day, so it is really nothing new to them, except they are penned in now and can't walk the yard. Oops.....guess I got long-winded again. Sorry! You all have a good day!..oh, and a good week-end! Man the time is flying by so quickly this year it seems. I wish there was some way to kind of slow it down. Y'all have a good one! .....9boxies
