My 3rd grade teacher gave me one (red-eared slider) as a pet that grew to be much bigger than 4 inches. I did not take any precautions for salmonella. While I was away at college, my mom put it in a large tub in the back yard and it crawled out and disappeared. It made a couple re-appearances over the following decade and hopefully it enjoyed spending its twilight years exploring our neighborhood. (New Orleans’ climate is wet and warm and generally welcoming to the turtles)
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This is also my recollection. Apparently that scene in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing where Fudge swallows the boy’s turtle is based on an actual thing that happens more often than one would think.
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