Other Turtle Discussion :: so if its illegal....

[bubblestheturtle]

i absolutely love the Worth 1000 websight. its amazing. i just got photoshop. i cant wait to learn how to use it.

and the two headed turtles, its not like they BREED for it to happen, it just...happens. rarely. i think breeding for that would be impossible...right? (considering a two headed turtle probably wouldnt live long enough to breed anyway, and the fact that breeding for two heads is kindof impossible.)

i saw one on a TV show. it was like conan or something?? anyway, it made me pissed, seeing it on that TV show, on the counter, everyone poking at it and looking at it. why must everything be so sensationalized? oh well.

[DavidY]

What some unscrupulous breeders do is breed a number of females, incubating all their eggs (probably hundreds of them a year), and keeping only the ones that are uniquely deformed, colored, or otherwise mutated. They then charge hundreds of dollars for them while the rest get sold in bulk to wholesalers or are "disposed of". I wouldn't be surprised if they were purposely inbreeding their livestock to increase the chances of deformities.

[bubblestheturtle]

how wonderful. not.

[pumpkinsherbet]

yeah it's pretty hateful. those people should be hung upside down by barbed wire. errrr... yeah.