Beanburglar wrote:
Yes, yes, fascinating I'm sure etc. I find those terrapins on the path to Tai Peng sometimes. I'm surprised there are any left. I usually pick them up and point them down to the swamp but sometimes feel that's a bit like helping old ladies cross the road when they weren't planning to. Why are they heading up Tai Peng hill? Looking for a cheaper shell?
Easy one to answer.
It's well known that Tai Pengers are fair weather animal lovers.
Buy the kids a pet, get left with caring for it & then try plan "B' - show it the door!!
In the terrapins case - the "Red-eared" are America imports coz they're
small & cute, but soon grow too big to fit the little glass bowl anymore.
Get shoved onto a red plastic bag & emptied into the little pond at the bottom
of the hill on their owners way to the ferry.
Trouble is these particular terrapins are voracious predators & will devour
every living thing in the pond. So very soon nothing left.
Thing is though, they have a homing sensor & when they've screwed
all the pond life, they'll head back to the place of their youth & all that free &
regular food & no predators.
Best thing to do is to let them go home & give the owner another "guilt" trip
down to the pond, with their kids hanging on their coattails screaming -
"but Mummy/Daddy I
will take care of it!!!"
The moral of this explanation?
Terrapin on hill on mission, not want pond
