Pet turtle washed away in rain

Keep your eyes out for a lonely looking turtle.

Karen Opsahl-Roberts is hoping someone will find her missing turtle, who was washed away during all the recent heavy rains. She lives in Chocolate Hole North, on Pebble Way, and thinks the turtle may have ended up in a neighbor’s yard someplace.

“We had the turtles in a pond surrounded by a rock wall, but rainwater gushed down a gut and knocked the wall over,” she says. “The two turtles got swished away in all the muddy water but I was only able to catch one.”

She says both turtles, a male and a female, are about 8 years old and she was just giving them a calm and safe place to live out the rest of their lives.

“I’m told that she can survive, and I hope someone spots her.”

Us too! See a turtle? Call Karen: 340-779-4727

4 Responses to “Pet turtle washed away in rain”

  1. Dave-a-roni
    May 19th, 2009 05:56
    1

    Man, that sucks… how sad. I hope it is found :( Keep us posted if it is.

  2. Carib Mark
    May 19th, 2009 06:13
    2

    “Drizzle drazzle drozzle droMe…time for this one to come home.” – Mr. Wizard to Tuter Turtle

    (obscure but appropriate cartoon nostalgia)

    Hope he gets home safely.

  3. Lesley
    May 19th, 2009 08:24
    3

    Awww, poor turtle! I hope he’s found!

  4. Ed Gibney
    May 22nd, 2009 14:56
    4

    As it dries out they will instictively head downhill looking for water.
    We had freshwater turtles here as kids and when they would escape they would end up in the brackish pond behind the beach where the gut goes out. Once or twice we saved them, but they would usually die when the pond’s salt content built up in the dry season. We’d find the bones.

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