next message in archive
next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects
Index of Subjects
On 6/24/2014 10:54 AM, Winifred Kettleson wrote:
> I am old enough to remember a time when there was a fad to buy wee turtles from pet stores. That died out quite quickly because it was said that they carried salmonella. Is that true? W. Kettleson, Truro
* those were Red-eared Sliders, a southern US Mississippi drainage
species, that were grotesquely marketed, with massive mortality, and
capturing of gravid females form the wild -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eared_slider#Red-eared_sliders_as_pets
- and of which, some decades ago, Canada had the good sense to ban the
import with the justification that some of the little Turtles had
Salmonella on them, and kids would put them in their mouths...
fred.
------------------------------------------------------------
Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/
study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm
RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
(613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
------------------------------------------------------------
next message in archive
next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects