I guess my euphemisms are obtuse.  Fluffy is dead.

He was estimated to be about 50 years old when we got him and we had
him for 15 years.  We had been thinking that we'd have to make
arrangements for him in our estate planning!  He was an Eastern Red
Eared Slider.  I don't know how they do in the wild.

-jc


On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 06:13  PM, Ruth Barton wrote:

> What a great name for a turtle.  I take it Fluffy has gone to "The
> Great
> Swamp in the Sky," or where ever good turtles go for their eternal
> reward?
> How old was he?  In turtle years, that is.  Ruth
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> At 6:38 AM -0500 7/3/03, John Callan wrote:
>> He was too old and too large to be cute.  So the pet store gave him to
>> Suzy to be a classroom pet.  He did well.  The children found him
>> entertaining, if not friendly.  Suzy took him home for the summer,
>> back
>> to school in the fall, home for the Holidays and back to school again.
>> Eventually, school was secondary, his real occupation was family pet.
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