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Sparkle must have convinced Sandy that she/he needed help or something brought out the Motherly instincts in Sandy. My guess it is something more than just idle curiosity. Just be thankful that it was a cute mild-mannered turtle that Sandy chose to adopt!!! You may want to read up on how to raise a turtle. They sometimes carry diseases or atleast that's what the press wants us to believe. They tend to get ill easily too. Make sure you & your daughter wash your hands every time you play with Sparkle. You just might want to contact your vet for additional information on how to raise a box turtle. It seems that Sparkle has a permanent home!!! Just a thought...what if Sparkle is a she & she's pregnant???

Yes! My cat did that to us once. She came home with a really tiny baby bunny that didn't even measure 3 inches in length a wild one. She was trying to feed it (being fixed this was just not gonna happen). We didn't want to let the poor thing die so even though the vet said it would be a waste of time we fed it baby formula with an eye dropper. He lived for 5 years which our vet said was amazing even to make it to grown up non to mind past a wild bunny's life expectancy. But that kitty would bring home other cats kittens too to try to raise I regretted getting her fixed before she had a litter because she obviously wanted it so bad. I miss that kitty. She passed last year at the age of almost 13.

What a dog! Most would have tried to chew it up, you have a very good dog. Turtles are great pets but be careful to keep it and its cage clean. They can spread some germs, nothing really horrible but people freak out about it. Wash hands after handling and the turtle will also get sick if its tank is not clean. My son's roomates have a turtle that eats little minnows and it's a very tame, affectionate pet. I think you'll enjoy Sparkle! Oh, and watch out if the shell gets soft, that means it is sick and needs medicine.

Sparkle's nose looks like it's out of joint from that abrupt relocation. Turtles are rocks with legs and dogs seem to love playing with them. I had a border collie/English setter mix who LOVED playing with my turtles. He would pick them up in his mouth and carry them all over the place, only putting them down long enough to see them attempt to scamper away, then pick them up again and move them elsewhere. I had a RiverCooter lay eggs in my back yard once. Five hatched. I kept three and gave two to another turtle lover. My dogs were forever watching these turtles, which I kept in a large fishtank (75 gallons... these turtles get kinda big). My dogs would sit for long periods of time in front of the tank, just watching, probably trying to devise a way of getting up and into the tank to have a closer look at these swimming rocks. My turtles are now happily swimming in their newer, bigger tank: our lake. We moved here three years ago and I put the turtles right into the lake. I kept going down there and putting food out for them, just in case they hadn't gotten the hang of catching their own food yet but, apparently, they learned very quickly. They've had their own babies since then. I see them when I'm down there, fishing. They watch me like I'm on some kind of display. What a turn of events, huh? We occasionally see a box turtle around the yard. I'm not entirely sure where it lives, but I let it roam wherever it wants to. I just don't let my dogs get to it because I don't need walking rocks in my house.

I saw the picture of sparkle,and the thing is so cute. Maybe Sandy saw the poor turtle wandering too,so,the smart dog took her home. Good thing she never broke Sparkle's shell

Is a box turtle what we call a tortoise here in the UK, it certainly looks like a tortoise. People would be very pleased here for the dog to bring them one - we paid £300 for our tortoise!!

I learned when I was working with sear ch and rescue dogs that turtles are the closest thing to human scent in the natural world. perhaps your dog thought the turtle was a human :-)! Seriously,according to the experts, turtle shells and fingernail clippings are very similar in chemical composition (odors) according to search dog trainers. so turtles are something that would possibly smell human to a dog trained to detect human scent.