General Care Discussion :: Turtle ate poop

[Marigold_Maple]

My turtle never had a solid poop only once in a while and i think my turtle thought is confused too. So he ate it.

[caykuu]

LOL. Mine eats her own poop too.
This afternoon, she pooped a big one. A few hours later, it's gone.

[Listen97]

A lot of animals eat poop. In the wild it is a way to gain/utilize all the nutrition that is remaining in the undigested food. Others is a form of defense so they don't leave signs of their existance from predators. And other times they just do it cat poop is like candy to dogs

[Nighthawk11]

gross

[dumbork14]

just this morning dumbork ate her poop and she looked at me as if saying, "can you do this? can you? huh?"

[steve]

If my turtles learn to talk, I hope thats not what they ask me

[AmberEve]

LMAO! I swear Morla talks to me sometimes too. The turtle I have proclaimed to be a boy is like a little bottom feeder. For the first two weeks we brought him home he would only eat from the bottom of the tank.. We thought he was eating food droppings. But then now we have a feeder tank..and he still does that. So YEP! Captain Spaulding eats poop too. And don't you dare clean out under his hiding spot cause that's his stash and he'll tell you about it if you do. =p

[apondfortimmy]

If my turtles learn to talk, I hope thats not what they ask me

I snorted. Like one of those "almost donkey hee-haw" laughs, but it came out my nose instead of my mouth.


This thread has horrified me. Just ... I understand and respect the nature, but