Our kitchen manager pulled into the parking lot on Friday to find this not-so-little turtle trying to find his way! We don't have much water near our school, so we have a hunch someone may have dropped him off in our parking lot thinking a preschool would be a good place to dispose of an unwanted turtle! And as much as I would like another class pet (we already have a leopard gecko, Gussie, who is really a great pet for the kids to hold and check-out!) this guy bit the end of the pencil off as I was trying to get him to open his mouth... Why I used a pencil? Not sure, just the first thing that was handed to me and I didn't give much thought to him snapping the end off. So after the crazy endeavour to get the pencil piece out of his mouth, we all decided we needed to find him a new home, and maybe some friends!
Not so happy with his car ride to the park in the bucket...
I took the girls with me to Bear Creek Park, which has a huge creek running through it, and lots of other red-ear slider turtles already, so we figured it would be the best place for him :)
Didn't take much coaxing to get him to poke his head out, and only about 5 seconds to leap into the water...
and he was gone, just like that! The girls weren't sad at all to let him go after they saw his beak snap off a piece of carrot... didn't seem like a great pet to them either!
Hope you enjoy your new home Mr. Turtle! I'm sure we'll be back to the park soon to "look" for him... :)
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