Ok. It is starting to get nice and warm outside so I decided to take both of the box turtles out to the turtle box to sun themselves and wake up after their winter naps. All day they were fine. they stayed in their sunny spots and the dogs left them alone. I got to work and when I come back 3 hours later I see Beka, my husbands little pup. chewing on a turtle. I blew up. I rescued the mangled, but still alive turtle and beat the hell out of the dog. she has not been allowed off the chain sense then. So I go to take both turtles inside and.... the male is missing. we spent an hour looking with no turtle in site. Now, my husband believes that Beka ate the male. But we found no shell and no bones or anything. So I am believing that he ran away while the female was being attacked.
April is fine by the way. her shell is a bit tore up and some of the underside has to heal a bit but she is alive and hiding inside in her box. My hopes is that she was bred before the attack and we can get some babies out of her this year.
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