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Happy birthday to me! (7) 🎉🎈❤️

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“Ok little tortoise I grew some oat grass in the kitchen window so you could have special fresh grass in winter. I cut it by hand and put it on a plate with dried flowers for you”

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Happy birthday to me! (6)

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Pet Portrait

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Day 622: 🐢 & 🧙‍♀️

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My lil pumpkins 🥲🥲🥲🥲

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Please allow me to introduce my Tiffany turtle. 🥰 🐢

Sooo, I recently had this reblog to grace my dash with an awesome crochet 'stained glass square' by Cookie Snob Crochet.

The square was still floating through my daydreams when the dock turtles (yellow belly slider terrapins) arrived for their afternoon snack.

I really couldn't NOT do the crochet, right? I mean, just crochet the stained glass circle part and then cap it for a shallow bowl shape.

My Tiffany's feets were fashioned after the 'baby sea turtle' by Whistle and Ivy. I think they worked perfectly for this project.

Tiff's belly was made flat and stitched with a wide hem on her front side to better display her signature 'yellow belly'. 🐢

Thank you! 😁

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134 Chinese Lantern Festival 2022

134 Chinese Lantern Festival 2022

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They just creep along… creepily 🐢🐢🐢

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Help our shelled friends out if you find them in danger! Love the turtles and tortoises!

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Turtles and tortoises are among the oldest reptile groups, dating back much further than snakes, crocodiles, and alligators. These incredible creatures even predate dinosaurs, having evolved 250 million years earlier. Yet, even with their long life span, adaptations, and endurance, turtles and tortoises today are at extremely high risk.

Recently, an international team of scientists from the US, France, Australia, and Germany “including Senkenberg researcher Uwe Fritz, published their work identifying all 357 species of turtles, their physiology, and their population status now over time. The overall findings from this work are frightening.

"The results presented by the research group headed by the lead author Anders G.J. Rhodin (Chelonian Research Foundation and Turtle Conservancy) are alarming: About half of the world’s turtle species are threatened with extinction. The animals are particularly affected by habitat loss and excessive capture for consumption and the pet trade.” -via Phys.org

Similar research has confirmed this dire state; in fact, turtle extinction is progressing much faster than during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. At this rate, all turtles could be extinct in a few centuries!

This decline does not only impact the turtles and tortoises themselves. Many turtles and tortoises are keystone species, which allows hundreds of other animals and insects to survive. They are all vital parts of their ecosystem, and their extinction would cause that of so many other creatures.

So as we celebrate our shell friends, it’s time to do our research and do our part to stop this swift decline. We must support legislation protecting these creatures and their habitats and support groups working to stop the exploitation and illegal wildlife trade. If we don’t, we may be sharing these glorious animals through stories and pictures alone.

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You think green nail polish is bad try yellow. Mom almost lost a finger! It’s her fault for trying to trick me 😡

The Great God Om is happy that the dandelions are back. Halfway through filming this video, I started to regret the green nail polish. If I don't learn my lesson, I'm going to lose a finger one of these days.