Where can u find turtles besides pet stores?

Question

i want to find one!

Answer 1

please don't even consider taking a wild herp into captivity -

turtles are having a very difficult time, what with cars, trucks, etc, racing them down on highways that cut their territories into pie-fragments.

a turtle crossing a road knows *exactly* where they need to be going - so for pity's sake, don't take them  ==back== where they began.

it only means that the poor creature will have to begin all over again to run the gauntlet - only more tired now, and more likely to be hit!

take them in the direction that they were  >> headed >>, and get them off the shoulder so that they are safe.

to boot, they are very, very popular FOOD in Asia - and the newly minted middle-class in China, as well as Korea, Japan, et al, are eating Merikan turtles into extinction.

turtles are long-lived, which means they REPRODUCE slowly -

and that is a big, big problem for turtles, as the Asian appeal of turtles is this very same longevity. they are a symbolic food, as well as a delicacy.

turtles are exported from the USA as legal + illegal freight, by the metric TONNE every year.  aquatic turtles, box tortoises, wood turtles, every imaginable species is being taken from the wild.

please -

don't add to the damage.

ONE female turtle can live for 60 or more years - and the older she becomes, the more eggs she can lay, and the better the odds that *somebody* among her offspring might, just might, live long enuf to make a few babies of their own.

please buy a domestically-bred turtle or tortoise, free of parasites + disease, and keep them healthy.  turtles have very specific needs in captivity, including full-spectrum light, a certain humidity, bedding that is safe + non-toxic, good nutrition, etc.

a turtle taken from the wild means a HOLE in the fabric of the ecos - because that turtle lived in a certain territory.  it can take a decade or more for another adult turtle to arrive or survive to breeding age, in that same area.

many places are entirely bereft of their former turtles.

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Answer 2

go on lllreptile.com (google tht)

Answer 3

at a lake i live on a lake and there are turtles here

Answer 4

If YOU want a turtle, does it really matter where I can find one?  JK!  Look in a variety of freshwater habitats.

Answer 5

Hi. well their is a web page (www.turtlesale.com) where you can look and pick out the turtle you want land/aquatic. they tell you a little about the turtle too. they will send the turtle to your house the next day. the shipping is like $30.00 plus what you spend on your turtle (different prices). good luck.