| So have your kids been nagging you for a new pet? | | | | so the turtles would thrive in their new environment. |
| I know just how you feel, my kids were doing the | | | | These small guys need such things as proper food, |
| same thing to me. They wanted a pet and would not | | | | heating and light. If you don't do this correctly you |
| leave me alone until I caved in and finally got them | | | | will run into the problems that I first had, and we do |
| one. The problem was, I wanted one that was easy | | | | not want the same thing to happen to you. |
| to care for and I figured it would teach them | | | | Let me ask you this. Do you want to look into your |
| responsibility as well. | | | | child's eyes and have to explain what happened to |
| You see, care of pet turtles can be easy if you | | | | your new pet if he dies? I sure know I don't want to |
| know what you are doing. I found this out the hard | | | | do that another time. Taking care of pet turtles can |
| way. Our first pet turtle did not fair to well and he is | | | | be a fun new hobby for the whole family to enjoy. |
| not with us any more. It was sad time for my | | | | We really love watching our turtles swim and bask in |
| children and myself as well. So I thought I better | | | | their aquarium, it's kind of relaxing after a long days |
| know what I was doing this time around. I did not | | | | work. |
| want to deal with tragedy of losing another small pet | | | | I am really glad I got them for the kids, they do |
| turtle and having to explain what happened to the | | | | make good pets and are easy to care for as long as |
| kids again. | | | | you get things set up correctly right from the start. |
| This time I made sure I had the knowledge I needed | | | | |