My brother and I had wild turtles when we were kids. We put a tractor tire in the back yard and landscaped the

interior complete with a little pond we made out of a 5 gallon cherry can or something. We usually had "painted"

tutles that we caught in a nearby creek but at times we had baby snappers, rare yellow spotted, and I remember a few

BOX turtles that looked a lot like VIC. In the late fall we would put their names or our names or a RACING# on their

underbellies with model airplane paint and let them go in the creek. The next summer we would be kickin' around the

creek and catch a few of them again and put them back in the tractor tire. Interesting thing is... Turtles like

carrots too but they like cabbage and brocholli better. The SNAPPERS loved NIGHT CRAWLERS and it was fun to dangle a

crawler in front of their face to watch them snap them in half, Snapper in one hand and Crawler in the other.

The snappers were not big on veggies but the would eat gold fish, crickets, grasshoppers, moths, hot dogs,

hamburgers, flys, and just about anything.

Big fun and life growing up in 50's in Northern Michigan.