Alright, my friend found a little box turtle on the side of the road and decided to keep it as a pet, how would she go about taking care of it and making it a pet? What should she feed it?
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To care for a wild caught turtle, SET IT FREE where you found it. They do horribly in captivity, it's bad for the ecosystem and no animal deserves to be taken from their home.
Actually you should free it. Wild turtles can carry Salmonella bacteria, and it is illegal in some states to keep one as a pet.
If your friend is going to keep it as a pet, then she needs to go all out and get its tank properly set up. Search box turtles to obtain all the proper information. And yes, young turtles have a higher chance of carrying bad diseases. So make sure she is washing up good after handling the turtle. I own a red ear slider, so i'm not sure on all the details of caring for a box turtle..
Hi. My cousins have a wild turtle as well. go about as if it were not wild. Turtles can almost adapt to anything. Go to you local pet store and buy some food, a filter, and a glass aquarium of about two feet by one foot. and there you go you gota perfect place for aturtle. But be sure to put a rockofsome sort so the turtle can relax "on land"
Hello, if these turtles are native %26 wild to where you live, YOU DON'T keep them, you put them back where you found them..as they can be sick or diseased %26 can make you or your other pets sick too..if he is not native %26 was someone pet that got loose ( as they often do ) then you have to create a pen for him..outside they need part shade %26 sun %26 a nesting box - they like to hide..in the house a UV light - plant grow light %26 a temp of about 80 degrees..a flat feeing dish, like a dinner plate or pie tin for foods..such as grated hard veges, fruits or chopped fresh greens sprayed with water or thawed frozen fruits - strawberries, blueberries or mixed vege's of green beans, peas, carrots %26 corn..they also need some beetles, crickets, meal or wax worms - which can be bought where reptiles are sold %26 some fish bait shops sell them too ..Take Care :)
Wild caught turtles and tortoises tend to do very badly in captivity, go free it where you found it.
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