TURTLE POWER

Ok, so I didn't do a post as soon as I thought....I was busy with two projects that took a bit longer than I expected. Today I began working on a greeting card and spent this rest of my day cleaning up around the house. I was going through my pictures and realize that I have a lot of things that I should definitely post, but first I will tell you about our little visitor. This morning I thought Marcus Sr had left for work until he was knocking on the door. I answered it and he handed me what I thought was a bottle cap, and then he said, "Look I found this behind the tire." I asked "what is it?" And he replied, "A turtle." I instantly threw him out of my hand-completely grossed out. He picked it back up and told me that he wants to keep it for Little Marcus, who was currently still asleep. I agreed and had him place it on the floor so i can show it to Little Marcus when he woke up. Well that was about 9am this morning, at about 4pm when I was vaccuuming the floor I remembered that here was a turtle in my house! I couldn't find him anywhere. I even checked in the vaccuum cleaner to make sure I didn't suck him up. About an hour later, while Marcus Jr was taking a nap, I spotted the turtle making his way down the hallway. I got over being completely creeped out and picked the turtle up and placed him on a hamper top. Marcus Jr woke up from his nap and was soooo excited to see the turtle. Surprisingly he was a very fast moving little thing and eventually seemed to get use to us and stay out of his shell. After doing some research online about what to feed wild turtles, I read a lot of overwhelming claims that wild turtles captured tend to die quickly because they become extremely stressed and more than likely will not eat anything you feed them. I also saw a lot about the bacteria they tend to carry-especially salmonella. We decided to set him free over the gate in the back yard. We didn't want his death on our hands, HIS GERMS WAS ENOUGH!