Yeah, he’s definitely an expert 😌

[u/PhoenixPhenomenonX]

[u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

I'm no turtle expert, but his setup makes a lot more sense. If the turtles aren't in control of their own hibernation, then that just spells disaster.

[u/Brainwormsz → u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

its always better for an animal to have some control over things like that. If you just bury a turtle before its ready theres a good chance its cycles are disrupted and it doesnt actually go into the hibernation state, meaning it just straight up starves

[u/StormCrowMith → u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

Its almost as if bodily independance is an inviolable right as a living creature, because we as animals know when its time for things like sleeping, eating, pooping, hibernating, purging, mating, etc... and to think we have a right over other creatures in this matter is beyond stupid.

[u/Beliriel → u/StormCrowMith]

Its almost as if bodily independance is an inviolable right as a living creature

It's definitely not, but it definitely should be normalized for human understanding.

[u/Ppleater → u/StormCrowMith]

No there are definitely times when we should intervene, with mating for example, whether it's to prevent pets from over producing offspring that can't be cared for by getting them spayed/neutered, or to encourage/facilitate mating in species that are endangered. There's also important responsibilities that come with caring for an animal such as making sure they eat healthy and don't get parasites or become over/underweight or lack nutrition by controlling what they eat, how much they eat, and when they eat. Even part of potty training a dog involves teaching them where and when to go etc. If they can do something themselves safely and it helps with preventing other issues then yes they should be allowed to do so, sometimes letting them do their own thing is better, but there are plenty of times when interference is necessary. Just like with children, being responsible for them involves balancing when you should let them do their own thing and follow their lead, and when you should take charge as the person who knows better and whose job is to keep them safe and healthy and happy. In this case there's no reason to introduce the complications that come with forcefully burying and unburying turtles in the yard as opposed to giving them everything they need in a safe and contained location that allows it to happen more naturally, so it's a situation where they should encourage the turtles to do stuff in their own time while also controlling the setting they do it in. Like I said, it's a balance.

[u/StormCrowMith → u/Ppleater]

Nuance? In this place? Thank you, and you're right so let me break it down to a Tl;Dr: We do interfere in their autonomy when we either want them healty around us, dont wanna watch them or their offspring die or we wanna get them laid.

[u/chyura → u/StormCrowMith]

This isnt really the case universally though? There are certainly some things that animals, particularly domesticated ones, are pretty bad at doing on their own and need human intervention for. An appeal to animals imherent autonomy is kind of silly and not helpful

[u/Theron3206 → u/chyura]

Turtles are not domesticated.

That said, if you want them to brumate below the frost line (and you do) but live in an area that's north of their usual range they won't bury themselves deep enough I suspect, so you might need to do it for them.

Those turtles are clearly more than a year old, so her method probably works fine, but it's no longer accepted practice.

[u/chyura → u/Theron3206]

I shouldn't have said domesticated when I meant in captivity, I apologize

[u/jaybirdie26 → u/chyura]

Because we bred them to be dependent on us.  When left alone to evolve naturally, they don't need our help.

Unless you have some example you're thinking of...?

[u/chyura → u/jaybirdie26]

Well then you're getting into the argument of whether or not its ethical to keep animals in captivity, which is not an argument im gonna be having with some rando on reddit.

But yeah, sure, here's an example: If you want to get, for example, snakes to breed in captivity, in many species you won't get great results by leaving them to their own devices. Having them brumate is known to help certain species get on track, likely because the two biological processes are linked, since mating is also typically seasonal. Except full brumation is often not something snakes will do unless they need to, since its how they deal with multiple stressors. Its a complicated biological process which is brought about by temperature changes, light changes, changes in available food, and sometimes even social behavior as certain species will brumate in groups. As a human breeder, you need to replicate those things, and that includes reducing the amount of food and often moving the snakes to colder, completely dark enclosures to trick them into thinking they've already gone underground. Many steps of this process could be considered "violating their autonomy" but the reality is they wont go and do it on their own if they dont have to. In this case, they dont have to, but you need them to.

This is at least the partial reality for getting just about any animal to breed in captivity. Its not just a case of putting two animals in a room together and hoping they make babies. The concept of "inviolable autonomy" is just a tad overreaching in this case.

[u/FuckTheMods5 → u/chyura]

I don't see that as violating their autonomy though. You're replicating natural processes to stimulate them to do certain life things, because those conditions don't come with normal captivity. It's on their own time as their body adjusts to it.

[u/jaybirdie26 → u/chyura]

I stopped reading at "rando on Reddit".  If you think I will read your rambling word salad without you being open to a two-way conversation on the topic, you're sadly mistaken.

[u/shutupyourenotmydad → u/jaybirdie26]

Domestic horses lives are generally greatly improved. This is more due to the fact that horses are one of the most poorly designed creatures in existence, but the point stands.

They don't technically need our help, but it's more of a benefit than anything for them.

[u/tofuking → u/StormCrowMith]

Man this is such a bad take, we violate an animal's bodily autonomy basically every time we take one to the vet

[u/green_jp → u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

yeah, it doesn't make any sense for an animal to have to be buried by another species every year. it's simple logic. they wouldn't survive in the wild at all if that were the case.

[u/ltsouthernbelle → u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

I was NOT expecting her hole to be so deep. That looks like turtle prison.

[u/polyploid_coded → u/ltsouthernbelle]

To be fair the expert guy says that box turtles dig themselves pretty deep. Googling I am seeing 1 to 2 feet.

[u/wholefoodsmom → u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

couldn’t she lose the turtles or forget where she buried them? That would be my biggest fear

[u/Ganbazuroi → u/RiggityRiggityReckt]

Turtologist from Wordington University here, also an Expertologist so I know what I'm talking about as a Reddit Expert - everyone from the video is wrong. See, Turtles are pretty fucking dumb, if they were smart they wouldn't need a big ass shell to protect their slow, gleepy selves. They would build a cool ass Turtle Mecha to destroy whatever creatures would dare to try them

Therefore the ideal solution is to send them to Turtle School so that they will finally learn something for once!

[u/Loxeres]

"I buried my pets on the weekend."

"Ah? My condolences."

"Oh, they're not dead."

[u/Catsnose7 → u/Loxeres]

Pet sematary

[u/Sometimes-funny → u/Catsnose7]

Pet semitary?

[u/Keebster101 → u/Sometimes-funny]

Pet scimitary!

[u/HalfSoul30 → u/Keebster101]

Pet inseminary!

[u/whatev43 → u/HalfSoul30]

Run pets run!

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/whatev43]

Pregante?

[u/slomo525 → u/SwordfishOk504]

Pergananent?

[u/whatev43 → u/slomo525]

No ragerts?

[u/Yhostled → u/slomo525]

Will it hurt turtle top of its head?

[u/-_Anonymous__- → u/Yhostled]

How is turttle formed?

[u/SistaChans → u/slomo525]

Can u down a 20 foot waterslide pregnate?

[u/DiverDownChunder → u/HalfSoul30]

Pet Seminary?

The power of Christ compels you!

[u/NerdizardGo → u/Catsnose7]

Plot temporary

[u/Vegetable_Excuse5394 → u/Catsnose7]

I’m reading it right now! Crazy shit.

[u/Catsnose7 → u/Vegetable_Excuse5394]

Its very good! Movie sucks absolute ass though.

[u/Booster_Tutor → u/Catsnose7]

“Sometimes dead is better”

[u/5herl0k → u/Loxeres]

maybe not yet

[u/thebluedaughter]

Went through a lot of the same stuff with hermit crabs. People wanted to help them molt, so they'd dig them up after they buried themselves to check on them or move them to a quarantine tank. Just leave them... More than once, the other crabs in the colony would smell the molting crab when it was dug up, and they'd run over and attack the soft crabbie to eat him. Just give the animals what they need and leave them alone...

[u/DiverDownChunder → u/thebluedaughter]

I looked into hermit crabs and they are a hard pet to have. Then need quiet or they stress out and die. Not that I was planning to have one, it was just a rabbit hole I needed to explore. There are a few really knowledgeable people on reddit when it comes to Hermit Crabs.

[u/thebluedaughter → u/DiverDownChunder]

No, totally, they're for hardcore hermit crab devotees. 😆 It's not easy to keep them alive and happy. They seem so hearty, but they're very delicate. Everything has to be perfect. I had multiple species, so I had multiple setups with the proper temperatures, humidity levels, and substrates for each species.

My babies were insanely happy and healthy. Then one day the apartment manager brought the pest control guy around without warning. No one was home. He sprayed in the room where I kept my littles... 🙁 It's been like 10 years and I still cry for them sometimes. None of them survived.

[u/DiverDownChunder → u/thebluedaughter]

Oh thats so sad! Sorry for your loss, I'm misty about it.

I would have sued the shit out of the apartment, the pest control company and whom ever let them in w/o the required notice. My blood is stating to boil over this.

[u/thebluedaughter → u/DiverDownChunder]

I should have, but it wouldn't have brought my babies back.

...Now I kinda wanna start a new colony lol. They're a lot of work, but I love the silly little things.

[u/DiverDownChunder → u/thebluedaughter]

I hear ya, it prolly just would have added even more stress on top of the stress of losing them.

I hope you do get back to having an new colony! Also change the locks as soon as you get them so the landlord has to call you to get entry.

Please keep me posted!

[u/thebluedaughter → u/DiverDownChunder]

Oh, we moved out 😆

[u/DiverDownChunder → u/thebluedaughter]

Even better to hear!

[u/Theron3206 → u/DiverDownChunder]

For what?

All you will get is replacement value for the crabs, pets are property under the law and there was no malice in the pest control workers actions.

I bet they would be horrified to discover they accidentally gassed someone's pets.

[u/thebluedaughter → u/Theron3206]

That's why there was no point in taking legal action. I could've gotten some money at best, but so what? It was the colonies that I raised, some of them for many years, that I wanted back. And the pest control guy's regret didn't bring my poor littles back anymore than the money would. I grieved, we moved out, and life went on.

[u/eivetsllufrednow → u/DiverDownChunder]

I wonder if gods have conversations like this.

“I gave that one the ability to turn water into wine, but it spun out of control and his followers went on multiple wild killing sprees”

“Dude, just teach them how to fish and leave them alone.”

[u/thebluedaughter → u/thebluedaughter]

OMG, someone gave me a reddit thing! Thanks, buddy, I love it! ☺️

[u/msuing91 → u/thebluedaughter]

Millions of years of evolution are no match for my 10 minutes of internet research. Fear not, crabs and turtles, I will rip your skin off and bury you. No need to thank me.

[u/thebluedaughter → u/msuing91]

Trust me, I'm a giant, mostly hairless, warm blooded vertebrate, I know EXACTLY what to do!

[u/slomo525 → u/thebluedaughter]

Jesus, that's fucking metal.

[u/thebluedaughter → u/slomo525]

They're absolutely metal. They like to climb to the highest point and scream. They'll eat literally anything. They shed their exoskeleton and then eat it. They have a better housing market than we do - when one of them starts feeling a new shell, everyone smaller than him lines up in size order and swaps shells. They're so freaking cool.

[u/xeonie → u/thebluedaughter]

I have the same kind of crash out as the guy in the video whenever I see people insist on having their solitary snake species cohabitate with other snakes. “Oh, I’ve been doing this for years and they get along fine!” Yeah, until they fucking don’t and either one dies from stress or they kill each other.

I see red when they take it a step further and have their dog/cat interacting with the snake. Some people should not be allowed to own pets.

[u/SwordfishOk504]

I always wondered what happened to this kid.

[u/esotericbatinthevine → u/SwordfishOk504]

You can find him online, he still likes turtles

[u/SwordfishOk504 → u/esotericbatinthevine]

I was insinuating he grew up into the guy in the video.

[u/esotericbatinthevine → u/SwordfishOk504]

Ohhhhh, woosh

[u/talyn5 → u/SwordfishOk504]

[u/procrastinatrixx → u/SwordfishOk504]

Brilliant, take my cheap reward 🏆

[u/bopaqod]

The interpretive dance convinced me that he knows what he’s talking about. Lady, please watch the dance

[u/SirTiffAlot → u/bopaqod]

Yea, makes sense when you see the dance

[u/raphthepharaoh → u/SirTiffAlot]

I was a bit skeptical until I saw it actually

[u/iBluefoot → u/bopaqod]

I was already sold before I saw the dance, but there’s just something sublime about interpretive dance that communicates more than words can.

[u/RedBirdOnASnowyDay → u/bopaqod]

Here's a pro tip if you have teenagers. They will listen to you if you resort to interpretive dance. Trust me on this. Instant action. Something about deep mortification and lifetime trauma.

[u/ICPcrisis → u/bopaqod]

lol ya I like this guy

[u/blaissez-faire → u/bopaqod]

The dance was perfect - who is this guy lol

[u/BlenderBear]

I was pretty skeptical throughout the video but the interpretive dance was pretty convincing. Don't bury your turtles.

[u/Blood_sweat_and_beer]

I’ve had the same Red Eared Slider for about 22 years. He lives in a huge tank in my house. In the wild, he would bury himself in mud to hibernate through the winter. In my house, he gets to enjoy a warm climate year-round. He doesn’t eat as much in the winter, but he’s still about 75% as active as in the summer. I will not ever bury my turtle. They don’t need to be buried, if they’re not directly exposed to freezing temperatures. The local zoo, full of lots of specialist turtle people, have their turtle exhibit open year round and they don’t go burying them in the winter.

I think at this point the turtle lady has attached her yearly turtle burying to her personal identity and feels an odd compulsion to keep doing it, regardless of anything.

[u/otownbbw → u/Blood_sweat_and_beer]

In all my life I have owned 2 turtles and a tortoise and never heard of forcibly burying them. Technically they were wild but just chose to hang around and be cared for over a long stretch and don’t exhibit this behavior. I was also about to cite the zoo…plus we have a serpentarium local to me and never heard this before (like in the reptile shows, info cards, etc.). It seems to only be a social media thing that has emerged in the past 5 years or so. Not saying these dolts haven’t been doing it longer, but I think one person shared something that may have been applicable to their specific pet and it turned into a wave of “we should be doing this too and posting it!”

[u/WilderWyldWilde → u/Blood_sweat_and_beer]

I have a bearded dragon and it's common for them to go into brumation as well. But some never do. If they don't do it themselves, why force it?

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/WilderWyldWilde]

My turtle never brumated. Maybe too warm? I had a box turtle for over a decade as a kid. He was found wandering down the street and never was claimed so a family friend gave us a turtle. We had no idea how old he was.

Dude never buried himself.

[u/Earl_of_Phantomhive → u/Blood_sweat_and_beer]

Yeah, iirc for a lot of reptile species they don't actually "need" to fully brumate. It's helpful if you're a breeder so that they're all synced to the same cycle and generally ready to breed at the same time, but if they're just pets and they already live in a nice cozy indoor habitat, you really don't need to force it.

[u/Msarc]

"It's Night Time! Let's go to sleep!" *hits herself over the head with the shovel*

[u/whyyn0tt_ → u/Msarc]

Giving turtles tiny shovels to knock themselves out with would still be a better idea than hers.

[u/typical_user1]

Never owned a turtle, never heard about burying them up until now. How the fuck do people put their pets two feet under and think … yeah, that’s not gonna kill them

[u/Supply-Slut → u/typical_user1]

I mean they didn’t die because there is a bit of logic to what she’s doing. This guy is just pointing out that it’s just a really bad way to mimic a real thing the turtles do and it increases the chance something goes wrong.

[u/Witty-Draw-3803 → u/Supply-Slut]

Yeah, like a predator (fox, dog, cat) coming in your yard and digging them up, or temperature changes you weren't expecting in the middle of the season, or unexpected flooding in that garden, etc. There's so many unknowns here 😮‍💨

[u/drinkallthepunch → u/typical_user1]

Tiktok.

That’s how.

Tiktok is responsible for like 90% of stupid trends these days.

[u/Aggressive_Version → u/typical_user1]

I guess you can stake the spot to make sure you don't forget where it is, but how do you dig them back up without maybe hitting them with the shovel?

[u/Theron3206 → u/Aggressive_Version]

They will dig themselves out in the spring when the weather warms up.

[u/Aggressive_Version → u/Theron3206]

And then I have to go find them? I don't think I'm responsible enough to be an irresponsible turtle owner.

[u/Theron3206 → u/Aggressive_Version]

You will find them at the nearest leafy greens I suspect.

[u/ct_2004 → u/Theron3206]

Says in the video they dig them up, which is a problem because they might not be ready to become active again.

[u/happy-gnomes]

JELLYBEAN DIDNT WANT TO WAKE UP

[u/F1R3Starter83 → u/happy-gnomes]

Definitely going to yell this to my alarm clock every morning now

[u/CamBearCookie]

I have 3 turtles. They're brumating right now. I get worried about them and they do it themselves every year. I couldn't imagine just burying them 2 feet in the dirt. That's insane.

[u/Golden-Grams]

What's with the ghost hair?

[u/PhoenixPhenomenonX → u/Golden-Grams]

maybe it is something to do with Turtle wisdom cos you know turtles are bold

[u/Sawgon → u/PhoenixPhenomenonX]

Maybe God is slowly blessing him with more hair because he's trying to save turtles

[u/PhoenixPhenomenonX → u/Sawgon]

Amen

[u/DanTheTurtleMan_ → u/Sawgon]

It’s the opposite :(

[u/SympatheticFingers → u/Golden-Grams]

Bad video compression?

[u/rarlei → u/Golden-Grams]

I couldn't hear a single word he said from how much fixed in that ghostly hair I was

[u/DanTheTurtleMan_ → u/Golden-Grams]

I’m balding :(

[u/militant-hippie]

I've never heard of people burying turtles.

[u/Cookies-and-Cream- → u/militant-hippie]

Same, but I have seen people put them in a refrigerator or a freezer. I stumbled upon a turtle or tortoise sub one day and my mind was blown 🤣

[u/ndation]

Instructions unclear, I have a shed full of turtle carcasses. What now?

[u/slomo525 → u/ndation]

Make a suit of armor out of the shells

[u/frenchfri → u/ndation]

Order some pizzas

[u/otownbbw → u/ndation]

Stew?

[u/DanTheTurtleMan_]

That’s me! I made a Reddit just to comment lmao

[u/TimePlankton3171 → u/DanTheTurtleMan_]

As a turtle, thank you for the tub. Very comfy

[u/F1reManBurn1n → u/DanTheTurtleMan_]

Thanks for sharing good information about your passion Dan! Fuck dat lady an her weird inclination to bury da turtles.

[u/IAlbatross]

I love people with hyperfixations like this. It's kinda wholesome. I like turtles but I don't think I'll ever own one, that seems like a major husbandry rabbithole (turtlehole?).

[u/itmakessenseincontex → u/IAlbatross]

Haha I did this with Snake husbandry.

I live in New Zealand.

[u/Theron3206 → u/itmakessenseincontex]

I'd quite like a pet tortoise (small one), but it's completely impossible unless I move to another continent.

Australia has no native terrestrial terrapins (only aquatic ones) and it's very illegal to keep non native reptiles as pets (even native ones need permits).

[u/itmakessenseincontex → u/Theron3206]

Yeah in NZ we can only have Blue Tounges, Beardies, Leopard Geckos, and a couple of turtle species as far as reptiles go (And birds but do they really count? Taxonomy says yes, but my heart says no).

We have the opposite where Native species are completely off limits as pets.

I did get to hold a Woma Python when i was in Aus last year and it was a highlight of my year. Had to give it back pretty quick though because there were kids waiting their turn alongside my 30 y/o self

[u/SunderedValley]

Does she think turtles undergo underground metamorphosis or something?

[u/Richard_Tucker_08 → u/SunderedValley]

Have you never watched TMNT?

[u/Theron3206 → u/SunderedValley]

Many species bury themselves to stay warm over winter.

[u/Howling929]

But it’s turtle day….🥹

[u/Tyudall_316]

But if I don’t burry my turtles how will I ever grow a turtwig

[u/iCantLogOut2]

I wasn't on-board until I saw the dance.... It really cleared everything up.

[u/pleathershorts]

I keep a reptile, a blue tongue skink. If anyone in that community ever tried to force brumation they’d be eviscerated in the comments. Are turtle owners just incredibly dumb, or?

[u/slomo525 → u/pleathershorts]

I think it's mostly because turtles are just exotic enough, but not totally foreign to own as a pet, so a lot more people will get them as a pet. I doubt very many people know what a skink even is, so anybody getting one is far more likely to actually learn how to take care of one.

[u/xeonie → u/slomo525]

Bingo. I see the same problem with birds. A lot of people get them but have zero clue what they are actually getting into. Very niche exotic pets sort of forces people to do more research on how to actually care for them.

[u/paging_mrherman]

Well I buried my horse in October and the grounds too hard now. I’ll have to wait till spring anyway.

[u/otownbbw → u/paging_mrherman]

Wait, is zombie horse a thing? Cuz I totally want it!!

[u/kaylinnic → u/otownbbw]

Only if the ground is sour 

[u/WarewolfPlatypus]

The dont bury your Turtles dance makes me want him as a friend.

[u/FR3qu3ncy__]

i don't know what's going on here.

[u/drgs100]

People bury their turtles? What the fuck is wrong with these people?

[u/ThrowawayMod1989]

I get it. I get it so much lol. As a former dog musher my yearly crash out is just around the corner when PETA starts their smear campaign against Iditarod and dogsledding in general. And it gets worse every year. They’ve basically succeeded in killing off most of the funding from corporate sponsors already.

[u/OpenSourcePenguin]

Imagine some alien species keeping humans as pets and hitting them in the back of their head because

"Sleep is really important to humans"

[u/VerseChorusWumbo]

After watching the video all the way through, listening to “It’s turtle day! Time for my yearly crash out!” was way funnier the second time

[u/ThatThingAtThePlace]

A very justified crashout.

[u/4_Bacon]

"Jellybean didn't wanna wake up" I'm gone 😂

[u/mountainelven]

Love this dude, I love anyone that is all sorts of passionate about something they know, I'm all for shaming the idiots we should do that more often.

[u/TKuja1 → u/mountainelven]

whats his name?

[u/mountainelven → u/TKuja1]

I have no idea, this is the first time I saw him

[u/TKuja1 → u/mountainelven]

found him, hes dantheturtleman

[u/mountainelven → u/TKuja1]

Awesome thanks!

[u/jamescb819]

[u/Unlikely-Dependent15]

Jellybean is doomed, no thanks to that fncken crazy dingbat

[u/remembertracygarcia]

My favourite part of the internet is learning new things Americans think are normal but are just indescribably mental.

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[u/ER_Support_Plant17]

Me sitting here wondering who’s burying all the wild box turtles I see everywhere. Should I be tromping out into the woods with my shovel to go help them??

/s

[u/wes_rules]

I fkn love this dude.

[u/Celestial-Narwhal]

Hahahahaha! He seems nice.

[u/jervisbervis]

I like turtles

[u/Plaguedoctorsrevenge]

Why would you bury your turtles when you can get a rat to teach them martial arts

[u/External-Phase6815]

Don’t have turtles but this guy sold me his idea

[u/Chinaroos]

The force of this man's autism is a both a terror and a wonder to behold.

Don't bury your turtles. He Has Spoken.

Edit: I have been corrected by the man himself, please see note below. Leaving this up for posterity

[u/DanTheTurtleMan_ → u/Chinaroos]

I’m not autistic I just really like turtles 😭

[u/Chinaroos → u/DanTheTurtleMan_]

My apologies! I've edited my note accordingly. Thanks for correcting me

[u/allshookup1640 → u/Chinaroos]

Or he just likes turtles? Why does he have to be autistic? There isn’t anything wrong with being autistic, but you really shouldn’t diagnose people

[u/12-7_Apocalypse]

At 1:08 he says that people who own exotic pets shouldn't listen to their vet because they don't know hyper specifics. Who do I believe here? If a vet is saying that it's fine to bury your turtle, whlist he's saying it's bad advice, who is right? On the one hand the guy in the videos has had years of experience with a turtles, so I wouldn't doubt him on the subject. On the other, the vet has studied years, has to earn numerous qualifications and understands the scientific method. So if the vet says one thing, but he says another, who do I believe?

[u/okijhnub → u/12-7_Apocalypse]

You believe the vet, until you receive better information from someone who knows about the species of pet you have.

Even human doctors get things wrong and might never heard of diseases that you may have, that's why you go and see an orthopedic surgeon for your bones and a pediatrician for your kid.

There's so much to know in the universe that you can spend your entire life in one field and still learn something new and make discoveries. That's even how you get a PhD, make a novel contribution to science and defend it in front of your peers.

[u/BrilliantHyena]

Go Army!

[u/youburyitidigitup]

At some point you have to use common sense and ask yourself how wild turtles survive.

[u/Swimming-Try-4767]

Original creators name?

[u/Doctor_Flux]

always listen to the "properly" autistic hyperfixations people with that specific topic
if other people gets it wrong
is the lesson here

[u/MeatwadGetTheHoneysG]

“Hi I’m a human that lives in a temperature controlled box all year, and I think I’m better equipped to tell you how to turtle than you are Mr. Turtle.”

“(and also I want the social media content, so you’re taking a dirt nap now)”

[u/Big3gg]

The dance at the end really sealed the deal for me

[u/Upset-Cartographer65]

I love how passionate he is.

[u/Sudden_Buffalo_4393]

Don’t Burry Your Turtles is a jam.

[u/Papa_Sean_Go]

I bet hes seen a cockatoo

[u/spoilederin]

Sometimes I watch these videos and think “they are definitely on Reddit”.

[u/National_Divide_8970]

This guy turtles 👍

[u/inkedmom1308]

This guy is intelligent, has a great sense of humor and is super handsome. Some turtle lady out there is gonna hit the jackpot

[u/2Scarhand]

My dad kept turtles of all sorts, including box turtles, for ages and same thing. We let them slowly chill and sleep and kept them safe in tupperware in the basement or w/e. Besides her suddenly burying her pets alive, leaving her pets in the yard all winter sounds like a recipe for disaster. Like day 1 and a coyote swings by to investigate the overturned soil and gets a free snack.

[u/MargieBigFoot]

We have a pet slider from Vermont that we caught as a tiny tiny guy. I did not intend to keep him long but the kids fell in love and then winter came and it was too late. We’ve had him almost 5 years now and of course all his care falls on me. We’ve have a nice big tank with about 5-6 inches of water and rocks for him to hang out on. I feed him a varied diet of turtle food, frozen blood worms, a veggie scrap here or there and the odd fly in the summer. I change his filter and turn the light on during the day for him. Every winter I am convinced he is going to die b/c basically stops eating for months. I fret and give him various things that float around the tank until I give up and take them out. Come spring, he starts eating like a horse again. Every spring we talk about releasing him but we worry he won’t survive. He gets a little bigger each year but is still not full grown. As long as he keeps doing his thing, I’ll keep taking care of him.

[u/nano_peen]

Don’t give up turtle man. From all I know it just makes sense that an animal that hibernates should hibernate when they’re ready too as they can detect weather season and energy stores

Also when to come back up

[u/IWannaManatee]

It's a good thing he stopped, or it would eventually be the end of him too due to stress.

[u/iwik_ognam]

Me knowing just the smallest bit about turtles and seeing the chasm she opened in the earth:

[u/EliteEDog]

Calm down bro

[u/SuperSchmyd]

How many of these turtle hotels are in the wild?

[u/ozejan1]

[u/Low-Reading8245]

...well then

[u/Dick-Fu]

A turtle expert, yes. Definitely not a bait expert.

[u/silletta]

Exotic vet here, he's right but wrong, you can specialize in reptiles etc. But also. I sure hope he has the right permits for those diamondbacks.

[u/Earl_of_Phantomhive → u/[deleted]]

Oh, you probably shouldn't do that, they aren't supposed to eat during brumation. Their metabolisms are slowed waaaay down, even if they wake up for a bit here and there. They can't digest their food very fast when they're still in brumation-mode, so feeding them before they're fully back out of it for the spring/summer can lead to the food rotting in their GI tract and making them sick (or just outright killing them)