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Eat your greens!
Since we got the turtles (which we're calling Philo & Choire for the moment) Pix and I have started demonstrating some decidedly odd behavior.
On their first night we switched off the light and settled down to watch A.I. only for her to get up and check in on them to see if they were sleeping. Are they? I whispered to her, to which she whispered back "yes"... only for the two of us to realise that there was no need to whisper.
Last night they were fighting. Choire bullies Philo for some reason and they'll fight over the same spot on the floating logs so we seperated them to opposite sides of the tank. The turtle equivalent of being sent to your room I suppose.
Today I noticed that as soon as I dropped a few of the smelly fish food pellets into the water they started to fight over them. In three of the four corneres of the tank floated the fresh spinach leaves I wash and tear up for them every day.
Hey you little dinosaurs! Eat the spinach!
And then it occured to me, why should they? If I had the choice between smelly fishfood pellets and spinach leaves I know I wouldn't eat the greens.
Mar.26.2002