Box Turtle?

[benburch]

http://www.buenavistatownship.org.nyud.net:8090/Photos/Box%20Turtle.jpg

[Orsino]

1. Locking.

No Santorum threads.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Oooh, that's getting me HOT!!

:evilgrin:

[benburch]

3. Perv!

:evilgrin:

[In_The_Wind]

4. Sure, cause he's so cute!

[Blue-Jay]

5. Turtles are reptiles, not amphibians.

:)

[Solon]

6. The only soup with a ready made bowl!

:evilgrin:

[DS1]

7. I'd hit it

[blindpig]

8. Box turtles rule.

They are the spirit of Nature's resiliancy. Got 16 in the basement and 5 in the yard.

[benburch]

9. Wow! What part of the country?

They are no longer very common here 45 miles NW of Chicago. When I was a child we had all sorts of them in the ponds and woods and streams.

Now all of my ponds and woods and streams are 450,000 poorly-built townhomes and shopping malls. They even tore down the huge hill we used to play King of the Hill on.

[blindpig]

10. These are captive bred.

I breed Gulf Coast Box turtles.(Yeah, that's right!) They get much bigger than your average Eastern Box, up to 8 1/2" and have some cool color phases, some are black, some horn, and rarely a male will have an ivory white head. We've still got a pretty decent local(Eastern) population around here, I find a baby or 2 a year, but the bursting of the housing bubble might be the only thing that saves them.

I feel for you, I grew up in Baltimore and ALL of my old spots are gone.