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If you walk around Chinatown, half the little shops have small tubs of water full of turtles that size for sale. I always figure that if nobody buys them, they become soup.
(I've always wanted to have a pet turtle. I had one briefly as a kid but one day my mom had it outside with her, and it ran away. I'm fairly sure I'm the only kid in America who had to deal with an escapee turtle. Sigh. But I'd like two turtles now. I'd call them Cuff & Link, just like Rocky).
Jon, are you sure it ran away? Because I used to have a pet turtle and my mom said it ran away, but years later I decided she had let it go and lied about it running away.
Also, one of these little guys was on Cute Overload a few days ago... So cute!
Sorry, but I still laugh whenever someone says they had a turtle as a kid and it ran away. It usually involves the mom too. I've heard that 3-4 times in the past few years. Actually, 2 of those times might have been jonmc talking about it.
Now that puke & cry has owned up to laughing, I too will admit that the thought of a turtle running away is absolutely hilarious. Sorry for your traumatization and all, but damn.
Has anyone ever heard of a male frog (I *think* it's the male) that has babies that hatch out of its back - the actual skin on its back? I saw this on the Discovery Channel about 2 years ago and it's been haunting me ever since, and no matter what I google I can't find it. If anyone remembers the photo of the breast that dano posted, the breast with the pods in it...the babies that hatch come out like that - out of little holes. Help me find my back hatching frog! I want to relive the terror. Help me, please?
I found something called a Suriname Toad that sort of looks like what I remember, but this toad has eggs hatching on its back. The frog I remember seeing had actual frogs (tadpoles) coming out of its skin.
Because I used to have a pet turtlegerbil and my mom said it ran away, but years later I decided [discovered] she had let it go and lied about it running away.
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