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Happy New Year, turtle fans! Sorry I've been lax in keeping the blog updated recently. This is always my busiest time of year, and I'm now playing catch-up. I hope you'll forgive me.
Also for making the assumption that anybody's actually reading Turtles All The Way Down, especially during this busy time of year! ;)
On to the first news item of the year, and it's great news!
Hey, beachers! Leave those turtles alone!
Curiosity kills tiny turtle hatchlings at city beach
Dogs recruited to sniff out tortoises
183 tortoise recovered, three arrested
Three-toed box turtle creeps toward state reptile status
Turtle Thought Extinct Found in Thailand
Rare giant turtle rediscovered in Thailand
Turtle lovers, I have had absolutely nothing to say about turtles for several weeks, and for that I apologize. Whilst maintaining the reptilian current events on The Basking Spot my idea for a blog was borne; it seemed that there were always interesting, harrowing, or infuriating news of turtles and tortoises such as the news we hear of developers burying tortoises alive ... yes, mainly that one. I can recall wanting to fume about that nearly every day and thinking, "if only this forum were more like a blog I could go postal all over this," but as it turned out it's just not something I have the energy for every day. Going postal. It takes a lot out of me.
So here it is, well into the first month of 2007, the year of the turtle over and done, and I felt the need to pop in and reassure you that a human being does actually live here.
In fact, this human being has finally gotten the chance to start reading Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile, on which I blogged back on 10/25/06. Thank you, Amazon.com wish list!
(No, that is not shameless self promotion, that was merely self indulgence. If I had linked HERE it would have been self promotion.)
So hopefully there will be some fantastic tortoise news in the near future that will inspire me to blog poetic. In the meanwhile, I continue to read Timothy's tale.
Would I be chastised, crucified, ostracized, or [insert cool sounding rhyming word here] by everyone I know if I name my daughter Olive Ridley? I think it's a beautiful name.
Why is it that we need to forcibly prevent people from causing such harm? Things like this make me feel much less selfish than I normally consider myself. And much sadder than I normally am. But it's not all about me. Please read on:
Britain: They were a fixture of Blue Peter and the pet of the 1970s. But is it wrong to own a tortoise? The trouble with tortoises...
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