Coleman's Pet Page

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Coleman loves animals and he's always finding critters that he wants to keep as pets.

Here are a few of the animals that we actually did keep.

Here are the turtles.... the American Snapping Turtle on the left and the Eastern Painted Turtle.

Coleman just calls thePainted turtle "Turtle". We found her in the middle of the road when she was fairly young and brought her home.

I estimate her to be about five years old.

Here's the snapper... she's about the same size as the painted turtle now and she's only about a little over a year old.

Coleman found her as a hatchling in a friend's backyard. She is an excellent hunter and she's very well camoflaged.

Here's a photo of the two turtles from about a year ago.

Here's Carl, our Northern Flying Squirrel

He just loves walnuts. Well, he'll run to grab pretty much any nut you have from your fingers.

Isn't he cute. You'll never guess where we found him.... in our toilet! Yup, the poor little guy nearly downed and I almost flushed him thinking he was someone's unfinished business, but luckily he moved a little and I realized he was an animal, not waste.

We'd heard him living in the ceiling and I even saw him a few months beforehand, in the hall closet, trying to construct a nest out of insulation, so we knew if we let him free he'd just make his way back into our house. We figure, if he's gonna live in our home with us and steal our food, we might as well be able to enjy watching him.

So Brian built him a great cage around a living Ficus tree, but as you may have noticed, Carl's chewing has pretty much killed his tree.

 

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