I posted this in 'other turtle discussion, also... thought it might be seen more here. If that is a no-no, sorry....
My daughter and I were at Petco today getting some stuff and saw a full grown female RES that someone had dumped. The story that I got was that the employees opening the store for the morning found her in a box at the front door.
I promise - this isn't the half or saddest part of it.
We got ours at Petco the first of this month and while their living conditions are subpar at best, ours looked OK. We were looking at her today, in this MAYBE 50 gallon tank with MAYBE 8-10" of water and 5 other RES, all probably around 4". She couldn't even 'stand up' straight and still be in the water and she was nipping at the other RES like crazy. One of the RES looked to have eye issues as they were closed and looked swollen.
If I could have I would have taken her home right then. Despite this, she was beautiful! Her eyes and shell looked really good and she had to have been 11" to 12", she was huge, well... huge after looking at mine all the time!
I took pics on my camera phone and I will try to get them up, thought they aren't very good for all the algae and who knows what else in the water.
So, anyone else in the Houston area that might want her or know of someone else that might, she is at the Petco at 646 and 45, the new one in the League City/Dickinson area.
I wanted to know - is there such thing as turtle rescues? Would the ASPCA, Humane Society or anything be able to help her and the others? I mean, it sure looks like cruelty to me.
