Saturday, January 29, 2022

With the child moving on, one of the things we inherited was turtles. 

She and her husband will be moving around a lot in the next few years, and she just wasn’t comfortable taking them with her.  She offered and even tried to find them other homes, but in the end, it was me and her dad who weren’t willing to part with them. 

Sammie is 20 years old and came to live with us 10 years ago when his owner was looking to re-home him.  He and the girl are the same age.

Pancake came during us during the high school years, from a classmate who had taken him on and then wasn’t as into turtles as she thought she would be… He was the size of a silver dollar pancake… hence his name.

Ironically, we are still getting to know each other.  Until now, my daughter was their primary caregiver and they have lived their entire lives in our home in her room. Now they are in the living room, so that they still have daily interaction with people and so we don’t forget to feed them. . .

So far, here’s what we know. . .While they both agree that celery is a nice little snack, Sammie loves strawberries and thinks Pancake is an idiot for not liking them. . . Pancake likes to climb on top of the aquarium top (which is still safely inside his enclosure, I promise) and hurl himself into the water below. . . to which Sammie maintains his opinion of his young roommate: He’s an idiot.  And also. . . I doubted her when she told me, but my daughter knows her turtles. . . They really DO love to watch Disney cartoons… So far Nemo, Finding Dory and the Atlantis movies are strong favorites.