This is Nathan's week to care for his school's pet turtle, Ernie. Unfortunately Ernie comes only with the word-of-mouth care instructions received from the previous host family, which by this time I'm afraid has been hopelessly twisted from months of playing a long game of telephone. So I brought the kids to PetCo, where we immediately identified him as a red eared slider, a popular acquatic turtle that spends about half its life swimming. Ernie came with a small water dish, good for drinking but certainly not swimming - a situation the PetCo staff person describes as "borderline animal cruelty."
But the school kept him this way for at least the past year, and if he likes water so much how come he doesn't like it when we make him sit in his waster dish? Anybody know what kind of turtle he really is?
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