Monday, July 8, 2013
I've just been feeding my terrapin, Ninja. He's been here for over 2 years, and was named by my mum who thought of the cartoon. The name suited him, because he moves around sneakily, dashing off when you don't notice, and loves to climb at every possible place. He looked like a small green lizard with a shell when he first came, and have since grown to one that is bigger than the size of my hand. He grows so well. He eats a lot. He enjoys eating live fishes and displays the classic behaviour of a red-ear slider; being aggressive. Which is making things increasingly harder to keep him. I spent the the entire first year he came convincing my mum that he's here to stay. Finally the thoughts of setting him into the wild are gone, i feel like slapping myself for mentioning him to my grandfather. With an instant effect he mention a temple that takes in unwanted terrapins. Listen to me, he told me, just put him there and don't keep pets. I felt like I've wasted 1 year worth of effort to convince my mum as talks of getting rid of him came back. It's depressing, just because he's growing well, people don't like him. He's not unwanted, why should i ditch him to a temple that feeds him only greens? Why don't people throw their children away as they grow and require more things?
7/08/2013 11:38:00 PM