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WOULD YOU LIKE A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR BOX TURTLES?
“Box Turtles” by Lolly Brown is a comprehensive guide for anybody planning on keeping Box Turtles as pets. While Box Turtles are gentle and hardy creatures that are well-suited for first time turtle keepers, the species does require specific and particular care in captivity. And the best way of ensuring that your turtle lives a long and healthy life is by doing your research and gathering information before you even bring one of these amazing creatures home. Objectively assess your capacity to care for one of these high maintenance pets, and only after you can say that you are fully capable of keeping a Box Turtle for the long term, then you can welcome one to become a part of your household.
This book contains much of the important information you will need to know about how to take care of a Box Turtle as a pet. Whether you are keeping them indoors or outdoors, are planning on breeding your turtle or not, or are planning on keeping more than one Box Turtle, you will find the information you are looking for within the pages of this book.
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I collect these kinds of books as I raise box turtles and have a tortoise as well.
– Betty Saylor
MEET LOLLY BROWN
As a child, Brown first learned about fish and aquaria when her father brought home a 10-gallon aquarium as a surprise for his daughter. Within months, the father-daughter team graduated to a 120-gallon tank and were immersed in the intricacies of tank population management.
“We had that go-big-or-go-home mentality common to the hobby,” Brown said. “Now I look back and think about what we did to Mama’s living room! She was very patient with us.”
Brown’s fascination with animals continued in college, where she took numerous field biology and wildlife classes that allowed her to view the behavior of many species in their native habitats.
She calls this period of her life the “rodent years,” since her only apartment roommates were two hamsters, Hemingway and Leo (Tolstoy). “I also adopted a Guinea pig purely because I couldn’t stand the conditions in the pet store,” she said. “Trust me, I was in no way prepared to care for Molly and I had to learn fast!”
“The only other time I went into a pet adoption blind,” Brown added, “I came home with two green anole lizards. Then I found out I was going to have to feed them live crickets. Read More
