Survey Results: Where did you get your pet turtle/s?
Filed under polls, results review, turtles
Based on 54 votes, the following are the survey results of where readers of this website got their pet turtles:
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19% from a Chinatown type tourist/souvenir store
17% were found in the wild (road, pond, etc)
17% came from a small, local pet store
17% from another source not listed
9% from a large national pet store (Petco, Petland, etc)
9% were rescued from a friend
7% from a breeder online
2% from a reptile show
4% don’t have pet turtles turtle
It’s both sad and not surprising to see that most pet turtles came from a Chinatown type tourist/souvenir store (my pet red ear slider turtles came from that kind of store in Philadelphia). It’s sad because it means that many of these pet turtles are purchased while the owners are (most likely) away on vacation and are captivated only by how cute and small the little hatchling turtles are and don’t have the proper information about caring for them or how big they get. The information vacationers then receive from shopkeepers are also often inaccurate.
Also surprising is the large percent (17%) of owners that obtained their pet turtles from another source not listed. I thought most of the pet turtle sources were represented in the survey. So where did all those pet turtles come from? Let me know where you got your pet turtles from – please share them in the comments
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June 6th, 2010 on 5:26 am
Knowing I’m an animal lover, the day after a little neighbor boy received a red-eared slider hatchling inside of a plastic hood-covered carrier as a birthday gift, he’d wanted to know if I would take care of it for him during his summer vacation. When summer ended, he managed asking if I was interested in keeping the turtle. I honestly wasn’t all that thrilled with the prospect, but since he obviously didn’t want it in the first place, I was concerned of its fate. She’s now 11 years old, gravid for the second time, and has always been in excellent health. I guess this would probably classify as a rescue, although I hadn’t thought of it that way before.
June 6th, 2010 on 7:50 am
wow, that’s awesome!! Did that neighbor ever visit or did he simply forget about the pet turtle?
11 years – that is really great!!