By: Nancy Turner

Nancy Turner — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:15:39 +0000

Dear Gary, I don’t know if this is the right place to write you, but I was unable to find any other place. I have a problem that I hope you can help me with. My husband was cleaning up around our rosebush today and found a turtle. It is about 4″ long, red stripes on the sides of his head. he was burrowed in the mulch under the bush. We assumed that he was a pet that got away and not a “wild” native turtle.My husband put him in a bucket with some water and a large rock to lay on. We went online looking for turtle care info, and we discovered that the turtle could indeed be a “wild”, so to speak, turtle. Now we feel terrible. We thought we were saving him from a certain death in the coming winter, if he had indeed been a pet. Now it seems that we disturbed a turtle minding his own business, napping under a rosebush. What to do? should we just put him back where we found him? Do you think he is a pet? can he survive outside if he is? Please let me know, as I had already offered him to the neighbors (they have school age kids and lots of pets). I don’t want to find him a home if he doesn’t need one and belongs outside. thanks, Nancy Turner, Antioch

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By: Nancy Turner