Progress

As some of you know I recently became the proud owner of a deformed turtle. He's a cute little guy though. Here's a picture:
I didn't really intend to acquire another turtle, but I was perusing craig's list, and there he was, and he'd had been listed for quite a while. The next thing I knew he was mine. I mostly refer to him as my little boy turtle. He's a stubborn little fellow, and refused to eat so I felt compelled to take him with me to Utah. I couldn't very well leave him to starve to death on somebody elses hands. Fortuitously it turns out that Jared has experience force feeding turtles. Who knew? Jared gave me a series of instructions about how to chop up food, put it in a syringe, shove a stick in the turtle's mouth to prop it open and then squirt the food down in there. It looked very easy when Jared did it. My first attempt wound up with me shooting little chunks of catfood out of the syringe all over the floor. It went better on round two and I managed to get the catfood in his mouth. He seemed to really be a fan of the catfood and after that has turned a corner. My little boy turtle is finally eating, on his own, without a stick and syringe.