My wife picked up a turtle from out on the road a couple of days back. He is a big guy, maybe 9" shell and a great long neck with a yellow stripe down the side.

We have a big 2 1/2 rai plot with two BIG natural ponds with all kinds of fish, frogs and pond life in them which he seems to quite like but he keeps walking up to the house and around the wall as if he is looking for something, maybe a mate? I wonder if we should keep him in our garden where he is safe or should he be outside looking for a friend.

Can't find what type he is on the net or how he should be looked after.

Not sure if we are doing the right thing, keeping him or should we take him down to the ponds at wat yaan where there are many turtles, what do you think?

Can you post a picture? It sounds like it is a tortoise rather than a turtle and most of them can't or don't swim well.

Edited January 5, 201016 yr by GarryP

He's turtle, swims like a fish, walks straight to the pond then dives under the water , looks a little like a red eared sider but but with a higher shell, I can take a pic of his shell if I can find him but I think you mean his head and markings right?

Go to your local food market.

Buy him some friends.

Me and my have bought turtles and released them at the temple for merit.

Okay definitely a turtle. I had two tortoises, Jimmy White and Num Nim, and you would be amazed by how many people said that I should put them in a pond. That would have been the end of them.