@BillyBones We named our turtle Lefty Wilbury because he's missing his left foot!

@BillyBones We're not sure, but our guess is a dog. His shell had some damage behind his head but it's healed and grown back pretty well.... Literally rescued him after his previous owner apparently decided to just leave him by a pond in Lincoln Park.

@BillyBones My wife works at a nearby museum that has turtles, and all my friends were already referring to her as "the turtle girl" and the amount of turtle things in the apartment is insane... So I had already been thinking "we should get a turtle" and then she just finds one and is all "Would it be okay with you if I brought him home?" We love the little guy!

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@BillyBones Also, PSA for anyone reading this... Don't just take turtles you find! This one was clearly not wild and not native, and we were instructed by a herpetologist that it needed a home. Wild turtles (as with other animals) should generally stay wild, no matter how cute and pocketable they are. Often times, removing it from the wild means stress and death on a turtle.

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