Before raising that cub, I also had a one-year-old turtle, which I bought online last October.
That hatchling, I specifically selected the Chinese grass turtle. And this one-year-old turtle, I asked the merchant, it is called the Brazilian turtle. I heard my brother say that the Brazilian turtle is an exotic species, and if it is abandoned, it must not be released, which will destroy the local ecological environment. Don't worry about this abandonment, I like small animals a lot, so I will definitely raise it well.
Maybe it was a bump on the road that caused it to come home without eating a bite of turtle food, and I cut it lean shredded meat when cooking, but it still didn't eat it. Later, I thought that it might eat small fish and shrimp, so I started to learn to fish, and the small fish I caught were put in its pool, and it didn't eat it at all. I put the fishing earthworm into its pool, and the earthworm jumped alive in the pool, it seemed to be very timid, and it was too scared to eat a bite. I was hungry like this, and I was suffering for two months until I was about to hibernate, I saw that its spirit was getting worse and worse, and I didn't do much activity every day, and when the sun was shining, I put it on the windowsill to bask in the sun for a while.
But when I went to see it in December, it was motionless and smelled a little stinky. I wondered where this stench came from? Could it be that the turtle died? Then I took the turtle out and put it on the floor to observe. The whole tortoise shell was also not normal in color, only to know that it was indeed dead, so I was sad to throw it on the garbage truck outside.
I'm a little discouraged, why is this turtle so difficult to keep! My colleague has owned a turtle for 15 years, and I heard her say that the mature turtle is still very sticky to the owner. Every day what the owner does, the turtle crawls around with the owner, the owner sits on the sofa and watches TV, and it stays at the owner's feet. Doesn't that sound interesting! If the owner feels lonely, the turtle can still accompany the owner. However, the 15-year-old turtle died of hibernation the previous winter.
I asked her: How does her turtle hibernate? She said: Every winter after late November, she takes out the turtle and hibernates on the floor under the bed, and puts a soft cloth on the ground.
I checked the information, turtles are amphibians, hibernate still can not leave the water. Young turtles may dry up and die one month out of water, and adult turtles may dry up and die after three months out of water. This is how the 15-year-old turtle probably died. She admitted that it may be that the turtle is old and hibernates, and she did not care about it, for this reason. I thought: "A thousand-year-old king, a 10,000-year-old turtle." "The turtle should be able to live a long life if it is alive!
My children went to school, there were few people in my family, and I was especially afraid of being lonely. Come to think of it, this year I am still going to the aquarium to buy a turtle, and strive to raise the turtle well this spring and summer, and when it is time to hibernate in winter, it will never be allowed to leave the water again.
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