Humor, the really good kind, has been thin on the ground here lately, I realize that. So you will understand my sigh of relief when my turtle woke up a few days ago. Funny turtle posts are just a matter of time.
Nothing funnier than a turtle, is there.
She’ll do something funny soon, and I’ll post it immediately.
Even without the humor aspect, I’m always relieved when she emerges from hibernation, because not being accustomed to pets that hibernate, I’m never really convinced she’s not dead only sleeping.
She’s still not firing on all cylinders yet, so she’s still moping around being serious. But it’s only a matter of time.
“She”, I say. I’m just guessing. We read in the turtle book that you could sex them by looking at the shape of the shell around their tail. Her’s is distinctly female-shaped.
She was eating a little today. Lettuce and turtle sausages, little pellet things. So it may be a while before that works its way thru her system and she defecates and walks in it and the kitchen floor looks like something by Jackson Pollack.
She was definitely more alert today, though, than yesterday.
Day before yesterday, it was warm so they put her outside and then couldn’t find her, although she was in her habitat. That’s escape-proof, man, I made sure of that. But they went out for her (it was after dark) and couldn’t find her. Called me at *work* to report it, as if I could do anything.
They thought she’d burrowed down. She was hiding behind her birdhouse when I looked for her the next morning.
Is that funny? Not especially…
Just wait, though.
