Other Turtle Discussion :: Turtle Shell

[jenaero]

My husband is coming back from Grenada next week and he asked me what I wanted him to bring me. He always brings me something back. Last year it was a beautiful wooden turtle carving. He mentioned they sell turtle shells there so I thought that would be interesting. He assured me that they are not just caught and killed for the shells, but the meat is eaten so that pretty much makes it ok for me. If it were killed only for the shell and the rest of it went to waste, I wouldn't even think about it. Just wondering what other's opinions are. I think it would be an interesting addition to my 'turtle table' in my living room.

[sonyj]

I get pretty queasy about things like that, so I wouldn't be able to handle/look at it. Yes, I'm a wimp. But I understand the part that it's natural for them to be eaten there so I think it would be okay as long as you could stand looking at it.

[daredevilgirl013]

Well as the saying goes, if you killed it you might as well use all of it. No different really when a hunter cuts the antlers and hangs them up to be displayed after he kills a deer. I just don't know if I could ever keep Michelangelo's shell after he's dead...or any other turtle shell for that matter. Kinda wouldn't work for me.

[jenaero]

I've thought about that also. I plan to keep the shells of all my turts when they're gone....that is, if I outlive them. I'm going to keep it on my turtle table in my living room tho because keeping it in the turts' room would just be wrong..lol.

[buffyfan9005]

How exactly would you keep your turtles shells jenaero? After they die....would you have to somehow take them out of their shell yourself? O_O

As for him bringing back the shell, there's really nothing wrong with it if the turtles are killed for food there.

[jenaero]

I've read online how you can put it outside, surrounded by cement blocks so that nothing bigger than bugs can get to it. The bugs do their work over I think a few months and that pretty much cleans it out.

[buffyfan9005]

O_O

Oh I don't know if I could do that.

[jenaero]

Well, with any luck I've got 30 or 40 years to think it over before I'd actually have to do it.

[cam722]

I don't know if I could do it either, but see nothing wrong with others doing it.
My ex had an Aunt who had her dog stuffed and put in a acrylic box. Now that woman was NUTS. She'd still put the dead dog's name on Christmas card.. haha.

I told my grand daughter, I'm giving her my turtles in my Will, I figured I'll be dead before they are and she's only 9

[jenaero]

My ex had an Aunt who had her dog stuffed and put in a acrylic box. Now that woman was NUTS.

I actually laughed out loud at that one. Co-workers are now looking at me like I've got tenticles.

[cam722]

I actually laughed out loud at that one. Co-workers are now looking at me like I've got tenticles.

My grand daughter is here, I read your post and started laughing.. she's like stop laughing. You do NOT want to know what I thought your post said.. sheesh. I need new glasses!!!!

[sonyj]

Ok, I'm laughing at both of you...

[ellman605]

hmm, its sooo hard to see what you thought it said!!!

[jenaero]

lmao

[buffyfan9005]

Hahaha. Tenticles.