Camo The Turtle

When I was around six and eight, me, my brother, and my sister were all walking my dog on a road next to my house. It is a nice road to walk on because it is right next to the country where we can see corn fields and trees on our right, while on our left was the street that we live on.

When we walking down this quiet road we didn't get very far before we saw something very small, green, and looked like a rock, in the middle of the road in front of us. I ran over to it to see what it was and saw that it was a baby red ear slider turtle on the road with no water and was on hot pavement in the sunny day. We took the baby turtle home to show my parents, "Hawks could have easily taken the turtle and harmed it, it's a good thing you found him or he wouldn't have survived." said my mom, "Can we keep him?" I asked my her, "hmmm... ok, we can keep him." she said.

We went to our garage to get a glass tank used to hold fish, turtles, frogs, et cetera, then cleaned it out with a hose. Once that was done I got two medium size rocks we have in our backyard to put in the tank so he could rest and not always have to be in the water we would fill it with. After that i got some twigs with leaves on them so the turtle would feel more at home.

Finally, we could put him in his new home. I carefully picked him up and put him in the tank. Immediately, he went under the leaves to hide. "We should name him Camo!" I said "because he hides like camouflage!" and I could tell that I would enjoy my new pet.