Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Hand feeding.

Well today I actually tried handfeeding Squirt. 

He did really well, at first he was a bit skittish, but after a few inspections he came right up and took the pellet from my hand. I fed him his daily 4 pellets by hand today. It was pretty cool, I can definitely see how it could be called "bonding" time with your turtle. 

I was a little skittish of even feeding him the pellet, for fear of him missing and nabbing my hand. But people had said if they nip you hand while feeding it isn't as hard as a aggressive bite. So I just went for it. 

So all in all it worked great, but I don't know how often I'll do it because it is somewhat time consuming compared to just tossing in 4 pellets and watching them disappear in 10 seconds or less. 

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