We have a new pet! It was very unexpected, and Bryan thinks that it's god-given. Here's the story!
About a month ago, I was in the car with the rest of Bryan's family, when his mom spoke up, suddenly remembered something.
Auntie: Oh yeah! Bryan you so mischievous ar! Go and put a tortoise in the house pond!
Bryan: EH? Where got? What tortoise???
Auntie: You didn't meh? How come there is a tortoise in our pond?
Bryan: There is a tortoise in our pond?!
The moment we reached home and got out of the car, all of us peered into the pond and found a tortoise about 4 inches long!!! Nobody placed him there (We haven't had time to determine the gender of it, so we're assuming it's a male for now!) and him ended up in the Lim's pond still remains a mystery until today!
We didn't know what to do with the tortoise. Bryan's sisters tried feeding him with cabbage, but he didn't eat it. Only much later, that we realized he ate fish food!
Honestly, Bryan and I were both occupied with work that time, so we didn't give the tortoise much thought. But some days, I would think to myself if we should release him to the public ponds. But the tortoise seemed as if he was previously a pet. If he was, could he handle being out there in the wild?
A couple of weeks passed, and I decided to check on the tortoise. He was very shy, as usual, always hiding at a corner when we are around! I also found out that Bryan's parents have not been feeding the tortoise, because apparently, they eat algae -_-
I think a tortoise his size would starve if he were to eat only algae! Plus, there isn't much algae in the pond to begin with.
So I got Bryan to feed the tortoise at least once a day. That poor thing must have not eaten anything during our one-week work trip overseas! The pond didn't have any landing platform for him to sunbathe too. Imagine him being submerged all the time T_____T
When we found out the fish food was running out, Bryan said...
Bryan: After the fish food finishes, I'll go buy some real tortoise food for him.
Me: Wow! It's like you've decided to keep him as your pet!
Bryan: YEAH! Why not?! I think I will just adopt him as my pet! I'm going to name him....
And just like that, we have a new pet :)
