Back in high school, I found a turtle walking down the street, and ended up taking him home. After awhile, he ended up dying, and I’ve been wanting a new turtle ever since. Well, Katrina decided to give me one this year for my birthday. Actually, we didn’t just get one, but two. Both of them are Red Ear Sliders, which are fairly common sea-turtles, and we bought them when they were only a month old. Their shells are about an inch and a half long, but they are growing incredibly fast.
Naming them wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. We thought of the name Pokey first, just as a joke…but then I thought of the famous clay-mation characters that I loved to watch as a kid and thought that if one was Pokey, then the other could be Gumbi. So that’s what we called them. There are two ways we can tell them apart. Gumbi has black spots just around the outside of the bottom part of his shell, and Pokey has black spots in the middle of his shell in addition to around the outside. Also, the top of Pokey’s shell has a pretty large ridge of yellow, where Gumbi’s is mostly green.
Anyway, here is a link to some photos and videos of our new buddies.