Texaco the Laughing Turtle

[Kevy Baby]

Somebody tried to outbid me, but I am determined to save that turtle from his horrible captors.

[Tref]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Somebody tried to outbid me, but I am determined to save that turtle from his horrible captors.

I'm insulted. How dare you!

Actually Texaco has it quite good. Quite, indeed.

- I clean his bowl twice a week.
- He has all his food swatted into his mouth.
- He is kept at my job so he always has somebody at which to stare.

And I have made progress as well with him/her.
Texaco doesn't shrink into her shell like he used to when I picked her up.
Now he/she just looks at me. In the old days when I sat
him down on the table she would run to anyplace I was not.
Now he comes right to me and once he even lifted his
little paw and scratched my arm to signal that he/she was
ready for his/her bowl.

And I've noticed that Texaco has even picked up a few words, such as "Hello", "Bye" and "Anthropomorphistic". Few people realise that turtles are natural born parrots, just as parrots are also natural born parrots. Though, I am not stupid, I understand this ability in turtles is not intelligence, more than it is the rote memorisation of sounds.

OK, that last part was a lie. Turtles can not actually speak, and I am not sure if they can even recognise people from day to day. But Texaco isn't afraid of me anymore and that is something, I suppose.

[wendybeth]

I tried to bid for Texaco, in the hopes that he might serve as a tutor to our poor mute Zebra finches, but it seems a certain person who shall otherwise remain nameless has placed a max bid that I, frankly, am too bored to try and surpass. So, our finches shall remain mute, Texaco shall remain cranky, and KB will have some 'splainin to do to Gus Gus when she gets home.