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Jenny
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Jenny sunning by pool |
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Jenny enjoying the outside
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Jenny: The Love of Bitty’s Life
Jenny is a Red-eared Slider turtle that just appeared one day
in a neighbor’s yard. She could not have been a wild Slider
because she was found nowhere near a water source and could not
have survived that far away from water. The neighbors went door
to door looking for her family but no one seemed to know where
she came from. They brought her to Healing HEART Sanctuary out
of desperation, as they were not equipped to keep her.
She had a little fungal problem that was easily fixed and the
next step was to find her a new home when the unexpected happened.
Bitty and Jenny fell in
love! Remember, Bitty is a 51 pound African Sulcata Tortoise
who could easily grow to 150 pounds, and Jenny is a little eight-inch
1 to 2 pound Slider. Bitty had been lonely for a while after
needing to be separated from his brother Itty because of fighting.
Bitty was fascinated by Jenny but Executive
Director Laura Bradshaw wasn’t comfortable at first
letting Jenny free to hang out with him as it wouldn’t
have taken much for her to be hurt or killed. Laura finally
got brave enough to let Jenny out one day, with supervision;
and the most amazing thing happened.
Jenny went straight up to Bitty, laid her shell on the ground
and went into a yoga pose (which they are famous for). She then
took one step forward and put her shell on the ground again and
struck another pose. She did this same pattern for about 5 minutes
much to Bitty’s delight. She was definitely showing him
her best stuff and he was thrilled. During the colder winter months, accommodations are made to make sure they have time together as Jenny needs to mostly stay inside.
It didn’t take long to realize that he would never hurt
her and so the two of them have been tooling around the yard
together ever since.
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