The Doomed Pet Turtles
My poor kids. They found a turtle a number of months ago that they gleefully dragged home and put in a box. Well, with some time, we found a nicer box for it and they enjoyed watching their little turtle. Eventually, they found another and soon the box had two turtles rather that one. Turtles are great because they are so low maintenance. With four boys in the house, I am definitely in need of a low maintenance pet! The kids throw some lettuce at them, watch them chew, add a bit of water, and the turtles seem to stay content. No barking, no walking, nothing.
Well, the kids have gotten so happy with their turtles, that they've started wanting more. So, they found another turtle and invited him into the turtle home. This one was much larger and now we needed to get a bigger home. We went to the hardware store and bought one of those large storage boxes that you might fold sweaters into and declared this a home. All seemed fine. For a day or two that is. And then the big turtle seemed to have something coming from his nose, and so did the medium turtle. I had no idea what it was or what to do for them. Well, you can get where this story is going. The next day - the two older turtles were dead. I still don't know what happened. Did they have a fight? Was the big one sick and he infected the medium one? I'll never know. But, now we had to deal with two dead turtles and four disappointed boys. More to come about how we did that in the next instalment!
