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Care of Aquatic Turtles As Pets
How to Take Care of Turtles
How to Determine the Sex of a Turtle
How to Take Care of a Land Turtle
The Best Care For a Box Turtle
How to Take Care of a Wild Turtle
How to Care For a Desert Tortoise
Facts About Turtles
Turtle Food Facts
Turtle Eating Habits
Turtle Disease Symptoms
What Is the Behavior of a Turtle?
How to Tell Age of Turtles
My Turtle Won't Eat
How to Save the Sea Turtles
Setting Up a Turtle Tank
How to Clean a Turtle Tank
Long Neck Turtle Care
How to Clean Turtle Shell
Mini Pet Turtles
How to Take Care of a Snapping Turtle
How to Take Care of a Painted Turtle
Proper temperature, water quality and feeding are important aspects of maintaining the health of semi aqua… More
Snapping turtle may sound dangerous, but they can actually be really good pets if you know how to take car… More
Painted turtles require a 20-gallon tank filtration system, heat lamps and a rock or log. Take care of a p… More
Land turtles should be taken outside on occasion because heat lamps can't simulate UV rays. Take care of l… More
Turtles are beautiful creatures to have as pets, but when they get sick, it can be simply mind-boggling ab… More
So your little one dragged home a turtle and you have no idea how to take care of it. Relax, turtles are p… More
Box turtles pull all of their body into their shell when they are scared to protect from predators. Take c… More
Long-neck turtles, also know as snake turtles, can't pull their head into their shell. Learn to care for l… More
Wild turtles are protected by state laws that govern their adoption and care. Get more information about w… More
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Snapping turtles are dangerous and should always be grabbed by the back of their tail and held away from t… More
Land turtles burrow in dirt to escape the heat. Get tips for caring for land turtles and tortoises from th… More
The desert tortoise is sometimes referred to as a desert turtle, but there are big differences between a t… More
Learn how to identify the signs of a healthy turtle when purchasing or adopting a pet turtle in this free … More
Learn to recognize and identify the signs and symptoms of a sick turtle in this free how to video clip.… More
Summary: Wild turtles are protected by state laws that govern their adoption and care. Get more information about wild turtles with tips from the owner of a reptile store in this free pet care video.
"Hi, my name's Tim Cole, I'm with the Austin Reptile Service. I've been keeping reptiles and amphibians for over forty years, and we're here to answer the question about keeping wild turtles. One thing you want to check on is your state laws, since a lot of states protect their native turtles. Quite a lot of them are not allowed to be picked up or kept as pets, and to be honest with you, most wild turtles don't make good pets. But if you find a turtle crossing the road, especially in the spring or early summer, there's a good chance that's a female and the females are going to travel a fair distance away from water to lay their eggs. So try and pay attention to what direction the turtle was going if you want to assist it off the road and help it to the side it was heading for. If you're going to keep the turtle as a pet, like I said check your local laws and you also need to be able to identify the turtle correctly so you know how to set it up, know what food they eat, know what kind of husbandry requirements they take. Quite a few adult wild turtles do not feed well in captivity, they just don't like to be confined so the best thing to do is probably just to release it once it's out of harm's way. You don't want to relocate turtles out of their home range because most of them will try and get back where they came from and end up getting hit by a car or something else might happen to them. Box turtles are well documented at having a home range and to take them out of their residential neighborhood or habitat and move them to a green belt, it would actually be death sentence when you think you're helping the turtle. So the best thing to do, is to put them back where you found them."
eHow Article: How to Take Care of a Wild Turtle
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wifey1 said
on 9/8/2008 MY LONG NECKED (SNAKE NECKED) TURTLE IS WHEEZING WHEN HE STICKS HIS HEAD OUT OF THE WATER WE HAVE NO ONE (AND I HAVE TRIED MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE) TO TRY AND FIND OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM (WE THINK ITS A HIM) AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP HIM, WE BROUGHT HIM 3 YEARS AGO FROM A FISH SHOP AND HE HAS BEEN FINE BUT I AM WORRIED ABOUT HIM AND WOULD LIKE SOME ADVICE ON WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE HIM BETTER/WELL OR HAPPIER
PLEASE HELP ME X
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