Tortoise Adopts Stray Hippo at Sanctuary (Reuters)

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Reuters - A 120-year-old giant tortoise living in
a Kenyan sanctuary has become inseparable from a baby hippo
rescued by game wardens, officials said on Thursday.

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[Southern_Belle]

That's really neat!!!! I have a turtle...maybe now I'll get a hippo for the turtle to care for. Less work for me!

[usm_designer]

what kind of person keeps a turtle????

how cruel is that? how do you know what to feed a turtle?

[all4USM]

duh....they have turtle pellets

[usm_designer]

so what's in a turtle pellets?

[all4USM]

how am i suppose to know

i am not the owner of a turtle

[usm_designer]

you are the one that acted like you new

"duh, they have turtle pellets"

just figured you knew all about it since you said that

[all4USM]

well....i am sure it has some turtle protein in it.

[usm_designer]

turtle protein?

sounds like i'm speaking to a woman....

[aaron]

Turtles aren't pets in my opinion. Does that thing care of if you give it to someone else? No.

[usm_designer]

how many times is the turtle going to relieve stress.. or get the paper for you...

[Southern_Belle]

Look...the turtle is mine and he is wonderful. He swims, and eats, and sunbathes on his log under a heat lamp all day. He is a great pet. No maintenance - other that cleaning once or twice a week.

[usm_designer]

its like going to comcast and seeing that fish inside that bowl

it cant even move around.. it just sits there because they have some kind of fake plant in the already undersized bowl.

there has to be some kind of animal cruelty for these kind of situations

[F150]

they are stuck. that's it. I'd love to see some kind of study though that says that these animals/fish would prefer to be there.

[usm_designer]

i would love to see someone just walk in... pick it up.. and just walk out.. hahaha

that would be awesome

[Southern_Belle]

FYI:
Reptile Sticks (turtle pellets) contain:
fish meal, ground corn, poultry, soybean, meat, fish oil, dried yeast, salt, ......(lots of things here), and then LOTS of vitamins are listed.
This is from the list off of the bottle. So it's probably nutritious for turtles. I do take care of him a lot and follow turtle care instructions that came with him. If he were in bad conditions he would have died already. And he has lived for three months under my care!

[usm_designer]

http://www.zatarain.com/recipes/recipe.php/35/Soup/Turtle_Soup

[aaron]

yum yum, gimme sum.

[all4USM]

that is sad.....i think you need to respect turtles and their owners. i have never heard of anyone eating turtle before...how nasty.

[usm_designer]

Google Search

Results 1 - 100 of about 188,000 for turtle recipe.

you need to get out more....

[Complicated]

what are the pros for having a turtle? You can't watch them to relax like you can fish...they hardly move. They can't protect you by barking or biting someone...they don't take care of rodents like cats...even snakes are better cause they eat their prey live...why get a turtle??

[usm_designer]

maybe the owner likes teenage mutant ninja turtles.. and maybe.. just maybe.. one day it will come to life