to think DH is a complete tool for bringing a turtle home?

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DH has brought a turtle home, informed me that DD can pop it into school to show her class, and then he'll release it back where he found it.

We are trying to raise our children to be kind, with respect for all living things, and he has brought home a wild animal....I want to throttle him.....Am I being a joyless harpy or am i right in thinking that is this totally unacceptable?

Those of you talking about babies: please watch a turtle's tale.

Turtle mothers lay eggs and naff off. The little baby turtles hatch and run to sea by themselves. Turtle mothers don't raise their babies.

I would tell him it has to go back and your daughter will certainly not be taking it into school. If he's that arsed then maybe your daughter can take a picture or two of it and do a little story/report on it for school.

You can get freshwater turtles as well.

My DH (also not in UK) offered, without asking, to home a friend's turtle (that he had taken from the wild, but as a baby, so putting it back in the lake was a bad plan).

I made DH apologise and friend found another home.

We're in Malaysia, and turtles are everywhere here - lakes, ponds, shopping centre manky stream/sewerage things.

But no, is cruel, and must go back right now.

is it a proprer turtle or a terripin you cant just randomly pick up wild repitles and take them to school is it big ? I suppose people collect frogs and have spawn in a bucket then realise but a TURTLE

bit bigger than my hand*

oh take the poor thing back take a picture of it as suggested and put it back ,

he is teaching your dd that it is ok to take wild animals fromt heir homes it isn't .

Tortoises are known as land turtles elsewhere.

YANBU OP. What a silly arse.

Ha Ha, I love it.
Is this the extent of his intelligence OP?

I too would take photo's and would also have told my dd it was wrong to take the turtle and your dp was wrong.

well if he lived here he would be doing a good thing we have plenty of non native turtles in our waterways, absolute sod to catch, and are doing a lot of damage.

they like chopped liver.

My dad used to pull shit like this all the time - completely inappropriate and I now believe this this kind of behaviour (in him at least) is symptomatic of his inability to think of anyone but himself which unfortunately includes terrified and unhappy animals.

I rescued a 3 legged box turtle off a road when driving home one day... It was in a residential area without any natural habitat nearby. I researcyed and found it is illegal to have native wild animals as pets here and version are not legally allowed to treat them if brought in by a non charity. I took it to the vet because i was concerned about the missing leg. The vet said it must be a pet one, but I had to take it to the humane society so they could put it in a sanctuary.