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  • I took the turtles, so we're good.

  • I love them all.

  • This is Pat.

  • This is Kendrick.

  • That one's Tafiti.

  • That one's Stewart.

  • That's Rob.

  • That's Chyna. There's tater tot.

  • There's Crash and Squirt. Hey, buddy.

  • This has to be one of the weirder things I've done in my life.

  • I don't even know how to start this one.

  • I guess- I guess I'll just like cut right to it.

  • This is the story of how I went to go get my hair cut.

  • And came home with 80 turtles

  • I actually cannot get over this snapping turtle. Right here, guys.

  • Look at him~

  • He's just takin' a little nap.

  • He's just doin' his best.

  • I LOVE that one right there.

  • I love that one right there, with his little feet sticking straight out.

  • How you doing buddy, hanging in there?

  • Get it? Cause you're like hanging on.

  • You know when you were in school, or if you're still in school?

  • And there's those math problems that are like

  • Sally bought 50 tomatoes with her friend who also got?

  • 35 dogs, and what could the possible equation be of the watermelon

  • And then you read those problems and

  • You're like who would buy-

  • 50 Tomatoes or whatever you know

  • Well, I've become a living math problem because I went to go get my haircut and I came home

  • With 80 turtles yeah, that's- that's right quite a few. A lot. Okay, that's a lot of turtles.

  • Let's

  • Get to the story, shall we.

  • So, I went to go get my hair cut, the other day.

  • Which you can never tell when I do, because

  • I have extensions in my hair

  • I was actually out running errands with my mom so she dropped me off at the hairstylist

  • She went out and she continued to do her thing and then when I was done.

  • She came and she picked me up

  • Well, my mom made a big mistake, or maybe

  • Maybe not because now I have 80 turtles.

  • My mom decided to mention that she saw a guy on the side of the road selling turtles.

  • And I- That set me off. If you don't know selling turtles on the side of the road

  • 99% of the time is illegal.

  • I don't know where you live if

  • This is a normal thing, but in Texas sadly, I see it all the time.

  • There's guys and girls on the side of the road selling what normally are baby Red-Eared Sliders

  • That were taken from the wild.

  • There is a loophole around this being illegal. Basically if they're over four inches

  • You can sell them legally on the side of the street.

  • Most of the time, they're not that big.

  • Now, these people sell them for some insanely cheap price like five dollars for a turtle.

  • And they give you a little container for the turtle to go in and they just send you on your way with the turtle.

  • And they tell you nothing about the care that goes into this turtle.

  • Nothing about the fact that they'll get 12 inches in diameter.

  • Nothing about the fact that they need land and water and a filter and a heater and a basking spot

  • They don't tell you anything

  • Just ship you off with your tiny cute little baby turtle for your little kid

  • And they tell you to have a good day, and that turtle lives a miserable life until it ultimately dies

  • Sorry if I sound weird I have bronchitis.

  • Anyway,

  • Basically if you see a guy on the side of the road selling turtles. Don't tell your friends about it,

  • Don't take pictures with the turtle. Don't buy a turtle which I know this is going to sound very

  • Contradicting to the fact that there are 80 of them in my kitchen, but just hear me out here, okay

  • So my mom told me that there was a guy selling turtle in the side of the street

  • And I just had to go look at him. I had to go talk to the guy

  • I had to tell him what he was doing was wrong.

  • Because no matter what even if it was completely legal,

  • Selling turtles for five dollars on the side the street and not informing people

  • Anything about the care that goes into them is wrong. I don't care if he has a permit

  • I don't care if it's legal. It's wrong

  • I went over there, and I walked up to him, and it's really hard to hear on my footage, but this is what happened

  • Saw them in little tubs

  • Hi guys

  • What?

  • Like where did you get them? Did yall have a permit to do this?

  • Cause they're really small and if they're under 4 inches then they can only be sold for educational purposes.

  • You know that this kind of stuff isn't sustainable for them, right?

  • but do you let the people know who are buying them that they get massive?

  • They get the size of a dinner plate, they do. They need one side that has 90 degrees-

  • Are you here to buy or?

  • I'm here to look because they are for sale on the side of the road for 5 dollars.

  • Man: Is getting harassed by people- The best cop that came told me that if we get harassed by people again just call them.

  • Well, you can call them.

  • it's fine that it's legal but it's still unfair for them

  • and where they're going.

  • People don't know what they're going into.

  • What kind of home are these guys going to? Are they getting a good home?

  • exactly

  • But why do you want your business to be about animals not getting good homes.

  • they're not just selling them in little containers.

  • At the pet store, they tell them 'oh you have to get them big containers'

  • Man: Anybody would know that its temporary.

  • I've had many people come in not knowing it's temporary

  • Man: They're healthy

  • I know yeah, but people just see them and go. Oh five dollars. I can grab my kid a turtle

  • They'll love it, and it's going to go home and it's going to die.

  • Man: Well, that would be the public's misunderstanding.

  • I know that's just why- why even put it out there for people to do that is what I'm saying.

  • Basically, I went up to him,

  • I asked for, you know, his permit. I asked if what he was doing was legal.

  • He ensured me that what he was doing was very legal and that he got all of these turtles from a pet shop in El Paso

  • I said, "what's the name of the pet shop?" He just said "somewhere in El Paso"

  • I was like "well if you got a hundred turtles from there-

  • you should probably know the name of them. Since it's probably what you do for a living.

  • Doesn't know the name of the pet store

  • So this tells me one thing. No matter where he went and got them from if it was a friend or something.

  • They were caught from the wild.

  • He's selling them for five bucks on the side of the road

  • He did not go to a store and pay full price for them to sell them for five bucks on the side of the road

  • And he can't even tell me where they're from.

  • Let me interject real quick here also and throw this in real quick before I continue

  • I am in no way trying to demonize this person

  • I talked to this guy and apparently he's fresh out of jail and has a family support and can't get a job anywhere

  • Okay, sure he needs to make a living because he has a wife and a kid I completely understand

  • But why not go sell ice cream or something?

  • Why do you need to sell a living being on the side of the road? Go make ice cream or something okay?

  • I understand, Times are tough, sure, he's not like "I hate animals. I want to make them suffer."

  • I'm positive that is not where his state of mind was but it's still wrong.

  • Just wanted to throw that in there that I'm not trying to make this guy out to be like the devil or something

  • I'm just trying to say, this is not

  • Good.

  • He told me that they were from El Paso somewhere

  • But he couldn't really tell me where for some reason and it's completely illegal and that

  • It's not his fault if people go home and don't take care of the turtles

  • That's the person's fault for impulse buying a turtle.

  • Well, who else do you think is going to buy turtles off the side of the road

  • Do you really think it's someone who has just been dying for a pet turtle?

  • But cannot humanely find a turtle available anywhere except the side of the road?

  • No

  • There are people who are just driving home and go

  • "Oh turtle! Let's get that for my kid for five bucks!"

  • Every person you're selling them to is an impulse buy.

  • Okay, when I used to work at a place. We'll call PetShmo

  • I used to have people come in all the time with their kids

  • I used to have people come in all the time with their kids holding a little turtle in a little jar going-

  • "Excuse me, what should I feed this?"

  • I just bought it off the side of the road and when I broke the news of them that

  • They're going to need a 40 gallon tank

  • That they're going to need a basking spot. So they need filtered water a UV lamp. They just go crazy.

  • They're like well the people that sold me this didn't tell me that! I'm not going to pay all that.

  • Please

  • Do your research

  • Before you buy a pet

  • This guy was just trying to give me every excuse in the book.

  • Showed me his permit, his permit clearly stated that if they were over four inches he could sell them.

  • If they were under four inches he could only sell them for educational purposes

  • These turtles were an inch and a half he was not selling them to a school

  • He was not selling them to an education program

  • He was selling them to random people on the side of the street

  • So then we left and I went and we drove around for a while

  • And it kept getting hotter outside it got to about 105 degrees

  • And I started to like panic about the turtles

  • thinking about them boiling outside in little containers all stuffed together.

  • I know it's going to pay this guy for the day

  • I know he's going to go home and have a good meal profiting off his little turtle illegal turtle thing

  • But I need these turtles to be okay, so then I went to the bank and withdrawed $500.

  • We're gonna save some turtles! We're gonna save some turtles!

  • Turtle saving today, Woo!

  • I have a weird question, but do yall guys only take cash or do yall do card too?

  • only cash

  • so if I go get cash

  • How many of these guys would you give to me?

  • If I brought enough money for all of them would you give me all of them?

  • So I have the bucket and my money. So I'm gonna go sit with them until

  • the dad gets back and then we're going to try to get all the turtles

  • They look pretty healthy which is good, but there's just so many of them

  • Now I took the turtles, so we're good

  • So now these guys are going to go find a new home.

  • So, permits for educational purposes only I guess you know that loophole.

  • So I'm actually falling in love.

  • They are

  • So cute. Oh, they're so hot! Babies~

  • Oh my oh my God

  • Plan is we're going to move my betta fish from the Beta Sorority tank into the ten gallon tank

  • Temporarily

  • Then all- all of the turtles are going to go into the

  • 46 Gallon bow front tank in my kitchen

  • And we're going to keep them there until we can find them new home

  • What did you do with your day? Well? I got a haircut, and then I just casually picked up

  • You know like 80 turtles or something like that.

  • Then I came home.

  • This has to be one of the weirder things I've donein my life.

  • Baby, oh, you're so cute

  • Generally, please don't buy any of them to "save" them just call the game warden guy.

  • Just call the FDA.

  • Call whoever locally takes care of those kinds of problems.

  • The only reason I bought them is because this video is worth way more than $500

  • I could spread so much awareness with these turtles.

  • We're actually taking these turtles to a turtle sanctuary

  • We're doing a whole other video about re-releasing these turtles and giving them a new home and a giant ponds at a turtle sanctuary

  • Because I have these resources this is why I bought them.

  • Not because you should always go out and buy them every time you see them, ok?

  • That's how I ended up with 80 turtles.

  • This is like the weirdest story I have to say this is like, It's a new new

  • High?

  • I wouldn't say a new low.

  • I mean you wouldn't call owning 80 turtles a low.

  • It's a high thing.

  • Another great thing is the game warden guy did call us back.

  • Did let us know that what he's doing is illegal

  • Did get his name. did get his information and is going to pursue something against him.

  • So, this wasn't all for nothing.

  • If you're having a conversation with people that want pets.

  • If you're having a conversation just about animals in general

  • Bring up the fact that the turtles on the side of the road are illegal.

  • Bring up the fact that they're taken from the wild.

  • Bring up all of that.

  • I know that seems like a really random thing to bring up to your friend to your aunt to your grandma

  • But the cool thing about that is then they'll probably tell other people if they ever hear about

  • Turtle being sold on the side of the road.

  • They'll be like:

  • "Oh my daughter my granddaughter my friend my nephew my niece. They told me they told me that this was illegal"

  • "They told me that this isn't right."

  • Maybe those train of conversations will stop people from impulse buying them on the side of the road

  • No animal is cheap

  • No animal is $5.00

  • No animal is stress-free, cost-free, worry-free.

  • Every animal you bring into your home is your responsibility until they die.

  • Which you should aim for them to live the longest they can.

  • So please!

  • Don't buy turtles on the side of the road!

  • Thank you for listening to my story about

  • How I went to go get my hair cut and came home with 80 turtles.

  • So until we get the turtles to the sanctuary my bettas are living in here.

  • We have all my 4 bettas that I actually started a beta sorority tank and that video is coming soon

  • I started a beta sorority tank again, and I made a whole video about it, but then my turtle thing happened

  • And we had to take the betas out of the sorority tank which was this tank right here and fill it with 80 turtles

  • I'm gonna feed them so you guys can watch how cute they are when they eat.

  • Cute. Look at that little guy's foot

  • He's just trying to do a swim

  • He's so cute. He's like having a little turtle dreams

  • His little foot was moving.

  • I hope you have a good day, and yeah

  • Thanks

I took the turtles, so we're good.

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