Gone!

[Kittyhawk]

How does one loose a turtle in your apartment while living on the third floor!

Im guessing she escaped some how from the deck, landed with a crack and carried on her journey

[turtleman]

My turtles are trained to stay within their environs, and if they are at a height of more than 3 metres, they can't leave home without a parachute. And they have to be at home by dinner time or they go hungry !

Where I'm currently living there is a golf course across the road. The 'road' is Stae Highway 2 at Te Marua. I had one of my turtles escaped, and managed to get across the road. She managed this twice. The first time a golfer who knew the family saw it and told us (as he knew we had turtles). I found the turtle about 300m up the road. I'm lucky that the border collie we had has a nose for finding turtles - I've lost them numerous times around the yard and he used to find them all the time - even when they'd burrowed into the compost !

The second time, one of the greenkeepers almost ran her over with the gang mowers towed behind the tractor! She was almost 2km away from home, heading for the river - a helluva trek for a someone with such stumpy legs.

I hope you find your girl - I know how long you've had 'em for, and how well you look after them - it'd be a bugger to lose one now !

[Laava]

Our turtle. Mertle, escaped from our deck by squeezing sideways thru the railings and then buggered off. Days later, our neighbour found her with his lawnmower! She is a little shorter in the shell dept but OK other than that. My wife wrote a picture book about it for the kindy kids where she officially lives. I am surprised at how personable they are.

[Usarka]

Our turtle. Mertle, escaped from our deck by squeezing sideways thru the railings and then buggered off. Days later, our neighbour found her with his lawnmower! She is a little shorter in the shell dept but OK other than that. My wife wrote a picture book about it for the kindy kids where she officially lives. I am surprised at how personable they are.

Did it hurtle?

[Kittyhawk]

found the turtle about 300m up the road. I'm lucky that the border collie we had has a nose for finding turtles - I've lost them numerous times around the yard and he used to find them all the time - even when they'd burrowed into the compost !

Might have to call in the expert....Alto.

Feel all my research has gone...not that Im a scientist, but making a mini doco of her as a project......doh!

Our turtle. Mertle, escaped from our deck by squeezing sideways thru the railings and then buggered off. Days later, our neighbour found her with his lawnmower! She is a little shorter in the shell dept but OK other than that. My wife wrote a picture book about it for the kindy kids where she officially lives. I am surprised at how personable they are.

You were lucky she was found. Ha, use a bit of knead it to make her shell taller glamour that shell. Lawnmower, shivers! I was told by the vet in Mt Maunganui that a guy saw a logging truck drive over a stone on the road, he went to move it off the road, and discovered it was a turtle. Took it to the vet, they rang Auckland Zoo, were told to car bog the shell. Turtle survived,.

Did it hurtle?

Yeah, wonder if it was a suicide attempt

[hayd3n]

ill get my venus and turbo to call out to them
i lost my beatrice a few years ago
turtles are so much more entertaining especially when i by them live food!!

[FlangMasterJ]

How does one loose a turtle in your apartment while living on the third floor!

[Laava]

Did it hurtle?

Tee hee! Ba doom tishhhhh!

The turle lives 'tween plated decks
which practically conceal it's sex
I think it clever of a turtle
In such a fix to be so furtle!

ill get my venus and turbo to call out to them
i lost my beatrice a few years ago
turtles are so much more entertaining especially when i by them live food!!

We have found that our 25yr old, Mertle, loves tuatuas and live cockroaches. But if you feed her on tuatuas, she becomes fussy and she smells. She took to digging last summer which we found out was because she was laying eggs. She has laid 9 since then and we would like to get her a boyfriend.

[Kittyhawk]

We have found that our 25yr old, Mertle, loves tuatuas and live cockroaches. But if you feed her on tuatuas, she becomes fussy and she smells. She took to digging last summer which we found out was because she was laying eggs. She has laid 9 since then and we would like to get her a boyfriend.

My girl has laid for the last couple of years, her last lot were put in the freezer (and are still there)

Im considering rehoming Domminator, as moving to Australia is on the cards for next year and found out I cant take him over as Red ear slider turtles are classified as a pest.

[Laava]

My girl has laid for the last couple of years, her last lot were put in the freezer (and are still there)

Im considering rehoming Domminator, as moving to Australia is on the cards for next year and found out I cant take him over as Red ear slider turtles are classified as a pest.

AFAIK they are considered a pest here too! But so are many of our domestic pets. Keep us posted if you need a home for the boy. Cheers Al

[Stirts]

Landed with a crack and carried on her journey

Landed IN a crack and carried on her journey in search of Mr Hanky

[allycatz]

Teenage mutanant injured turtle?

[Kittyhawk]

Landed IN a crack and carried on her journey in search of Mr Hanky

Nooo! lmao! rather not think about that....haha,.

Teenage mutanant injured turtle?

Yes, she had a mind of her own, and was always on the attack....pure evil. Every time she was picked up, that snappy little beak would open and wait....