So, my friends have this red slider turtle. They bought him and his brother 10 years or so ago, when they were tiny and cute and swam happily about in a regular aquarium.
When I met him, his brother had already died and he was a quarter of the size of the aquarium, spending his days trying to get out (understandably so).
I pestered them and he’s now living outside in a plastic baby bath tub… with two bricks in it for “sunning”. He’s now a quarter of the size of the plastic bath tun and it looks as if he’s given up hope. They also don’t look after him properly; just today after I visited this realised that his tub was too full with water for him to “sun bathe” and that it was full of leaves and other stuff from winter.
It is breaking my heart.
What to do? Red sliders can’t be released. I can’t find any sanctuary in Tokyo. Does anybody have an idea?
by SubstantialNovel4527