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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:53 pm **My turtle**

Just signed up here and thought I'd share a pic of my lone male.
He has no name (never would come when I call anyways) and is
approximately 18 yrs old wih a 6" long shell.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:02 pm

Aww he's cute. Mine have names, of course they don't come when I call, but its nice to have something to refer to them as.

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:19 pm **Re: My turtle**

dudio wrote:Just signed up here and thought I'd share a pic of my lone male.
He has no name (never would come when I call anyways)

Don't be so sure about that.....LOL. My Sheba comes to me when I call her. Read the following:

http://www.redearslider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6841

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:20 pm **Re: My turtle**

industrial_girl_2000 wrote:
dudio wrote:Just signed up here and thought I'd share a pic of my lone male.
He has no name (never would come when I call anyways)

Don't be so sure about that.....LOL. My Sheba comes to me when I call her. Read the following:

http://www.redearslider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6841

OK your turtle is just amazingly smart. When I saw that video you put up of Sheba walking to you when you called her my jaw dropped. My turt would never do that. She will look at me and then walk the other way!

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:31 pm

industrial_gurl: I was going to mention the exception of your Sheba in my comment.
Loved the video .. what an affectionate turtle !

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:43 pm

dudio wrote:industrial_gurl: I was going to mention the exception of your Sheba in my comment.
Loved the video .. what an affectionate turtle !

Thanks! She's my baby. Of course, I have worked with male turts in the past, and they tend to be a little harder to train. They are more aggressive and tend to bite more. But having said that, when I had my male (Nelson), he was starting to exhibit some of the same "following me around the house" behaviors as Sheba did. But because Sheba & Nelson fought like cats & dogs, I had to give him away.

Just carry some little pieces of tuna around with you. Lead them around with the food! I am convinced that you can train your kid too!

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:53 pm

My 2 turtles dont have names either, theyre just "big turtle" and "little turtle" the way i figure it, if a names comes to me and sounds good, ill go with it, but until then, theyre big and little.

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:29 am

18 years old? wow.. you've kept him well

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