If you’re thinking about owning a pet but don’t feel like getting a dog or a cat, some people might say that one of the best options is getting a turtle. A lot can depend on an individual, but some people find these creatures to be perfect pets as they live longer and they don’t require as much energy as, for example, dogs. It might seem that turtles are a rare choice when it comes to picking a pet, but here are some moments when people online decided to share their adorable pet turtles or pictures that capture how amazing they truly are. Which one of these is your favorite? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!

#1 Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin’s 16-Year-Old Son Robert Shared An Adorable Selfie With A Tortoise Named Igloo

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#2 Baby Snapping Turtles Look Just Like Little Dinosaurs

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Very often we might hear two names that refer to turtles. These are turtle and tortoise. What is the difference between these two creatures? The main difference is that turtles mainly live in water and only appear on land occasionally, while tortoises live only on land. They also differ in their appearance: while turtles are flat and light, tortoises are found to be thicker and heavier. It is known that turtles live from 20 to 40 years while tortoises live longer: from 60 to 80 years.

#3 I Found My Tortoise Like This. Putting The Clues Together, It Seems He Pooped, Got It Stuck On His Foot, Ran In Circles Trying To Get It Off, And Flipped Over

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#4 They Are Often Seen Following Each Other Around, Sharing Meals And Resting Together. We Hope This Unusual Friendship Continues To Flourish

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#5 Welcome To The World Baby Razorback

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It might seem that turtles are easier to take care of than other pets that need to be watched all the time, taken outside at least twice a day, and in need of special foods or vitamins. These creatures also require special care. One of the main reasons why it is important to think before getting a turtle as a pet is that it carries salmonella bacteria that can be transmitted to people. 

#6 What Do These Two Do On Another Cold Day? Snuggle Under The Heat Lamp Of Course

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#7 I Crocheted Our Tortoise A Tank Sweater. She Is Now Frank The Tank

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#8 Volunteers Form A Human Wall To Guide Baby Turtles To The Sea

On the first day of July at 4pm, just 52 days after laying, 112 loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings began to climb to the top of their nest in the sand. STCB had Beachkeepers watching closely, as this nest is at risk from the airport lights which can disorientate hatchlings.
When several mini heads appeared above the sand STCB shaded the nest to prevent the hatchlings dehydrating in the hot sand. We then waited until the sun was going down and hatching took place. Here are the images from hatching. Thank you to all the volunteers who formed a human wall to allow the small loggerheads to make their way to the sea in safety.

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For turtles to grow and be happy with the place they are in, they need the right lighting and temperature, as well as filtered water. Having in mind how long turtles live, people should really think before getting one. And even if the responsibility does not scare you, it is recommended to get a turtle from an animal shelter. 

#9 Baby Tortoises Are God-Like On The Cuteness Scale!!!

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#10 Neighbor’s Tortoise Escaped And Walked Almost A Street Away. At Around 250 Pounds, This Was Their Solution To Get Her Home

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#11 This Turtle Who Loves Getting His Little Tummy Brushed

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Sometimes people come to the realization that they won’t be able to take care of their pet and the best way to act in this case is to contact an animal shelter or animal rescue group. It is forbidden to let them loose thinking that they will be able to take care of themselves back in the wild. This is not allowed as turtles carry diseases and can affect other turtles. Also, very often, letting a turtle out into the wild means that they are not going to make it on their own. 

#12 This Fellow Came To Me On The Beach Today

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#13 Jennifer Slopez Is Forever Determined To Go Downstairs. Had To Put These Gates For Safety. She Does Not Respond To Verbal Commands Like: Turtle! No

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#14 My Grandfather Built A Floating Dock For Turtles In The Lake By Their House, And The Turtles Love It

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#15 That Wasn’t Expected

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#16 He Do Be Gamin Doe

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#17 Baby Turtle Thinks It’s Skydiving

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#18 Hiding

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#19 We Were Able To Release 170 Hatchlings Today In One Of Our Locations

It is always a calming and satisfying feeling releasing the hatchlings back to where they eggs were laid. All that hard work in the beating sun, watching the females trek through the summer heat, flies, dangerous traffic, predators, and human encroachment… all for the sake of these hatchlings to make it back to the water.

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#20 Franklin Met A New Friend Today

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#21 This Baby Turtle Floating Around On A Slice Of Bread

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#22 Not Sure If You Think Turtles Are Cute But Squirtle Wanted To Say Hi

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#23 Dad: If We Get A Tortoise I’m Not Looking After It. Also Dad: Get Comfy, Hector, And Let Me Show You Pictures Of Your Brethren

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#24 Happiness Is A Turtle Eating A Slice Of Orange

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#25 Fernandina Tortoise, Are Extinct Since 1906, Discovered In An Expedition. She Was Hiding In The Brush Of A Volcano, And Identified By The Look Of Her Shell And Face

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#26 My Tortoise Likes To Spread His Legs While Eating

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#27 I’m Training My 30+ Yrs Old Turtle To Be My Flower Girl At The Wedding. This Will Not End Well

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#28 Ever Seen A Bucket Of Baby Sea Turtles? Got To Release Them Last Night Into The Ocean

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#29 Harvey’s 13th Birthday

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#30 Extremely Rare Albino Turtle Was Found In India And It Looks Like A Slice Of Melted Cheese

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#31 Gotta Warm Up That Bum, Honestly Could She Get Any Cuter??

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#32 The Face Of A 100 Year Old Turtle

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#33 Well This Is A First. Couldn’t Find Our Little Man Anywhere, Then We Saw Ralph Basking With Our Two Tortoises

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#34 My Dad Keeps Turtles. I Started The Training. Soon I’ll Have My Own Personal Bodyguards

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#35 In Creed 2 With My Original Buddies From The First Rocky … Cuff And Link , Now About 46 Years Old

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#36 Watching My Girlfriend’s Tortoise While She’s On Vacation. She Told Me To Keep Him Out Of Trouble

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#37 The Happiest Turtle Ever

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#38 Turtle On Top A Dog’s Head

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#39 My Tortoise Trying To Eat A Bolt

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#40 Tortoises Are Good Cuddle Partners Aswell

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#41 My Local Hardware Store Has A Pet Turtle That Wanders The Store Early In The Am

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#42 This Is Fred. Fred Is 21 Years Old And Lives At Petland In Orlando Florida

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#43 Bonnie And Clyde Are Two Very Different Turtles In The Morning

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#44 A Baby Turtle Tucked Away In Its Shell

#45 Turtles Can Be Cute, Too

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#46 Guy In Tokyo Taking His Pet Tortoise For A Walk

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#47 Franklin Wants To Know If This Is Going To Be A Regular Thing. Noodle Says Probably

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#48 My 1 Day Old Tortoise Caught Mid-Yawn

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#49 My Uncle’s 56 Year Old Tortoise He Inherited From My Grandparents

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#50 My Tortoise Going On His Daily Prowl

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#51 Took My Tortoise On A Bike Ride Today And Blew His Tiny Little Mind

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#52 Olive The Turtle

Rest In Peace My Loving Turtle. After 15 Years Of Loving You, Saving You From The Street, Old Age Took Hold. Goodbye, Olive.

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#53 Adorable Turtle

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#54 Friendship Goals

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#55 My 8 Year Old Tortoise Just Woke Up From Hibernation. First Meal Of 2019

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#56 Artist Crochets Adorable Tortoise Cozies

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#57 Gorgeous Baby Turtle With Bright Orange Tummy And Shell

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#58 Baby Turtle Hiding Behind Val

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#59 Have You Got Any Games On Your Phone?

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#60 Tucker The Turtle Eating A Juicy Strawberry Turtles May Not Be A Cat Or Dog But He Is Amazing And Cute To Me

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#61 I Hope I’m Not The Only One Who Finds This Little Snapping Turtle We Found In Our Neighbours Garden Today Cute As All Hell?

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#62 Turtles Have Exceptional Color Vision. They See More Shades Of Red, Which Might Be Why This One’s Mistaking A Blue Jean For A Blueberry

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#63 Boys Can Rock A Flower Crown On The Beach Too

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#64 Me When I’m In Exams Period

#65 Someone Has To Protecc Turtles

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#66 Pup Just Met His First Box Turtle, That’s Adorable

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#67 I Got A Baby Sulcata Tortoise Today

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#68 Super Funny Turtle

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#69 My Turtle Doin My Taxes For Me

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#70 Stumbled Across This Little Guy Walking Across My Lawn

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#71 This Is My Turtle, Aura. Besides All Looks, She Is Not A Hatchling, I’ve Had Her For 2 Years

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#72 My Baby Turtle, Opie

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#73 Stormageddon: Dark Lord Of All, The African Side-Neck Turtle

This is Stormageddon: Dark Lord of All. She’s an African Side-neck Turtle! I rescued her about 16 months ago from really bad living conditions. She was two years old when I got her, and she didn’t know how to swim, didn’t know how to use her swim bladder, didn’t have an appetite for close to 3 months! We had a few trips to the vet, a near drowning that left me sleeping by her tank the whole night to keep an eye on her till morning, different vitamin injections, and a good ol dose of extra warm water in her tank ❤️ And about 4 months after adopting her, she’s ravenous when she eats, she swims like a champ (although the guppies in her tank still regularly out swim her), she’s SO energetic and playful in the water. She doesn’t like being outside of the water and is very nervous outside of it (which is one of the nuts things because where she was living for 2 years before me was in 2 inches of dirty water in a 10 gal tank ?). Her previous owners claimed she just didn’t like swimming that much! She’s definitely a water baby. Anyway, I’m so extremely proud of her and how far she’s come, and she’s so sweet and so beautiful I really just wanted to share a little bit about her and show everyone this picture that I hope puts a smile on your faces! ENJOY! ?

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#74 Yummy

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#75 I Made A Turtle Stack While She Was Out For A Walk

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#76 Food Service Has Been Good Lately! Keep It Up My Servant Lady!

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#77 This Tiny Fellow Is The First Offspring For Some Critically Endangered Spider Tortoises From Madagascar. His Genetics Are Important, And He Is So Cute!

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#78 This Is My Turtle. Thought I’d Show You Guys This Cute Picture

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#79 I Get To Work With Some Pretty Cute Box Turtles

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#80 Happy To Be Born

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#81 Meet My Friends Turtle, Squirt

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#82 Found A Baby Snapping Turtle Walking Across My Driveway

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#83 Found A Picture Of My Old Turtle… Forgot How Cute He Was

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#84 Pocket Turtle

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#85 I Just Learned That A Group Of Turtles Can Be Referred To As A Bale… So Here’s A Bale Of Baby Albino Turtles

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#86 Today I Released Baby Sea Turtles On Sumba Island. Thought This Pic Was Epic

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#87 Move Over Baby Yoda… Pink Turtle Has Arrived

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#88 27 Little Baby Turtles

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#89 What An African Helmeted Turtle Looks Like

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#90 The Size Difference Between A Full Grown And A Newborn Galapagos Tortoise

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#91 Cute Grape With A Turtle For Scale

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#92 My Turtle Sometimes Dips A Foot In The Water When Basking, So Cute!

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#93 Fact: This Little Guy (Or Girl) Is Adorable

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#94 Well Hello There Guys

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#95 My Grandma Didn’t Want Me To Get A Tortoise. I Come Home And My Tortise Is Wearing A Watermelon Sweater

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#96 This Turtle Is Sitting Like A Dog

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#97 Researchers Estimate One In Every 100,000 Turtle Hatchlings Is Albino. Here You Have Two Siblings

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#98 I Work At A Zoo, And Today A 500lb Tortoise Tried To Escape

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#99 Albino Leatherback Sea Turtle Baby

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#100 This Teeny Tiny Baby Turtle

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#101 Found A Baby Snapping Turtle At The Park Today

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#102 My Cute Red-Footed Tortoise Dixie Acting Like Bulbasaur

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#103 Cute Leopard Tortoise

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#104 Diamond Back Terrapin Baby Turtle

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#105 Yes, I Still Sleep With My Teddy Bear. Don’t Judge Me

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#106 Beware Of The Tortoise

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#107 Chin Scritches Please

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#108 My Friends Tortoise With His Cardigan On

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#109 I Watched An Eastern Painted Turtle Dig A Nest And Lay 5 Eggs By My Apartment

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#110 A Very Rare Blue Eyed Box Turtle

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#111 Tiny Turtle (Coin For Scale)

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#112 If Your Presents Arrived Late, It’s Because Santa’s Helpers Are A Little Slower Than Normal

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#113 I Found A Tiny Baby Turtle Today. Best Day Ever

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#114 We Monitor Sea Turtle Nests For The State And Sometimes We Find Baby Sea Turtles That Didn’t Escape The Nests. We Release Them To Give Them Another Shot At Life

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#115 Three Months Ago I Watched A Painted Turtle Dig A Nest And Lay 6 Eggs Near My Apartment. All 6 Baby Turtles Are Healthy And Ready To Go To The Pond

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#116 Going For A Walk

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#117 Baby Herman’s Tortoise

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#118 My Russian Gaming Tortoise

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#119 Family Of Tortoises Enjoying Breakfast

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#120 Meet Jonathan. The 187-Year-Old Tortoise Photographed In 1886 And Today

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#121 What You Got In There?

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#122 I Know It’s Not A Kitten… But… Aww

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#123 Waddup

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#124 I Made A Paper Hat For My Turtle

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#125 My Turtle Turned A Year Old Today

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#126 Somehow My New Turtle Climbed The Mountain In His Aquarium

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#127 Baby Painted Turtle I Found

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#128 Four Years Ago, My Wife Rescued A Baby Snapping Turtle From A Busy Street. Snap Has Became Our Really Sweet Pet. The Top Pic Is From Day One, And The Bottom Is Her Last Fall!

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#129 In Isolation But We’re Together, And That’s All That Matters Right Now. My Daughter Wanted To Show Off Her New Baby Turtle She Found In Our Yard

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#130 This Happy Looking Turtle Visits On Occassion. Gave It A Grape For Being So Cute. Calling It Danklin For Now

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#131 Turtles Can Be Cute Too Right?

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#132 If I Could Just

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#133 Look At Him Go! *waving Back*

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#134 Hello Baby Turtle, Are You Hungry?

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#135 Simply Adorable

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#136 Yawning Little Baby

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#137 Grumpy Looking Little Fella

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#138 I Hear You Like Cute Things. Here’s Our Baby Sulcata Tortoise, Koopa

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#139 My Pet Tortoise Smiled At Me

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#140 My Dad Found This Box Turtle Nine Years Ago And Let It Loose In His Yard. He Pops Up Again Every Year In The Spring. Fresh From Hibernation

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#141 A Moss Covered Turtle Shell

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#142 An Orange Turtle Found In The Vietnamese Jungle

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#143 Snug As A Bug In A Rug

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#144 McCord’s Snakeneck Turtle

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#145 Turtle Pog

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#146 Found A Baby Turtle At Work Today

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#147 Went Hiking A While Ago And Found A Baby Turtle In The Middle Of The Path. It Was So Small I Almost Missed It (Fingers For Scale)

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#148 Baby Sea Turtle’s First Swim As It Just Hatched On This Populated Beach In Miami

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#149 Baby Turtles Are Literally The Cutest Thing Ever

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#150 These Baby Turtles Just Hatched In My Yard!

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#151 Tortoise Christmas Sweater. Because My Son Was Upset My Daughter’s Kitten Has 2 Sweaters While His Tortoise Had None

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#152 My Cute Baby Sulcata Tortoise Sleeping With Its Itty Bitty Feet Outstretched

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#153 Are Turtles Cute? Meet Frodo

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#154 Not Your Cat Or Dog But Just As Cute! Pandas Meet Timmy Bob The Turtle

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#155 Just Got This Turtle For My Birthday, He Looks Soo Cute

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#156 The Burmese Star Tortoise, Named For Its Star Patterned Shell, Is Returning From Near Extinction

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#157 The African Helmeted Turtle, Also Known Commonly As The Marsh Terrapin, The Crocodile Turtle, Or In The Pet Trade As The African Side-Necked Turtle

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#158 We All Got Lessons To Learn

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#159 A Hand Full Of Turtles

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#160 Is My Turtle Cool Looking?

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#161 The Burmese Star Tortoise Is One Of The Few Animals That Have Comeback From Being Called Functionally Extinct

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#162 Found A Little Softshell Turtle At The Lake Today

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#163 Scrub A Dub Dub It’s A Tortoise In A Tub

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#164 Majestic Baby Loggerhead Turtle

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#165 Well, Here Is A Grumpy, Baby Box Turtle I Found

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#166 Got A Pink Bellied Turtle To Accompany My Common Musk A Couple Days Ago. First Time I See Them Together

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#167 Excuse Me, There Seems To Be A Mistake. I Believe I Ordered The *small* Cappuccino. Look At The Size Of This Thing

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#168 Baby It’s Cold Outside

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#169 Merry Christmas

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#170 What?? Call Mommy Is She Gonna Feed Me Or Not Huh?

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#171 World, Meet “Turbo”. She’s 30+, Very Grumpy And Pees On Anyone Who Looks At Her Wrong. I Love Her

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#172 My Dad Built An Outdoor House With A Window For His Tortoise

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#173 This Is Thomas, He Is Last Male Of His Species. He Is 160+ Years Old. He Has Been In My Family For A Few Generations And We’ve Protected, Cared For Him All This Time

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#174 The Very First Hatchling (For Any Species Here) Of 2022 Has Entered The World

This little Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota) made its big debut this morning and is looking incredible, ready to take on life. It is the only baby to hatch from a clutch of eggs that were otherwise infertile. What an absolutely immaculate animal.

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#175 Cute Little Leopard Tortoise Moved From A Busy Street It Was Crossing To A More Suitable Environment

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#176 Someone On Dressed Their Turtle Up Like Blastoise

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#177 Spotted This Baby Turtle Near Campus

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#178 I’m A 40 Y/O Man And I’ve Had My Pet Turtle Since I Was 11. This Is Slider

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#179 Bojack My 44 Year Old Rescue Horsefield Says Good Morning

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#180 One Of My Endangered Blanding’s Turtles Emydoidea Blandingii Taking Her First Breath In My Fingers

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#181 Cute Turtle Sleeping

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#182 Small Turtle

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#183 Happy 4th Of July

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