Originally published at: CDC issues dire warning against kissing, or even snuggling, turtles | Boing Boing
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How could it ever be wrong to kiss a handsome turtleboi?!
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We know where that leads…
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Although any turtle can carry Salmonella germs that can spread to you and make you sick, turtles with shells less than 4 inches long are a known source of illness.
(who knew Salmonella respected imperial units)
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If you do enjoy spending quality time with turtles, “don’t kiss or snuggle your turtle, and don’t eat or drink around it.”
So no martinis with the turtles, then. Understood.
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That’s why you give them a protective coating.
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I mean, it is a disease.
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They’ll stop me from kissing turtles when they pry it from my cold, dead lips!
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On that note a colony of turtles has turned up in my in-laws hometown in Nara Japan. Either that or I never noticed them when visiting.
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I was always very careful about washing my hands after handling my RES or after cleaning it’s tank. I was well aware of the salmonella risk.
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Well, there goes my weekend plans.
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The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
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If I remember right – and this is like half-recollected 3rd-hand knowledge so take it with a grain of salt – the thing about turtles less than 4 inches being banned has to do with the presumption that kids can stick a 4-inch or smaller turtle in their mouth, but I guess turtles bigger than 4 inches are not at risk?
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Fun fact - there is a pet turtle in Rocky, and Sylvester Stallone took it home and still has it.
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The rocket-propelled ones are especially dangerous.
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Cuff… or Link?
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