My first herp was a red eared slider bought from a jewelry stand in Chinatown NYC when I was 12. It was a field trip and an impulse pet my parents didn't know about until I got home. My mother threatened to throw him in a lake repeatedly, but I scrounged my lunch money together for years to keep him in the best care I could. I had him for eight years before I moved out of the house and rehomed him to someone with multiple turtles. I loved my turtle, Yoshi. He was so friendly and it was always a joy to walk into my room and be greeted by him enthusiastically splashing around to beg for food.
It wasn't until another four years before I could situate my finances for another reptile. Don't think I'll go back into turtles. I was also into fish keeping at the time but I'm not that into the prospects of maintaining the water quality in tanks anymore. Snakes are very lovely - and dry - reptiles.
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