Lucy was a red-earred slider who was not native to our area. She was a pet of
someone who wanted to get rid of her so we took her in.
Though her native habitats in central and eastern USA get colder than here in
zone 7 PNW she did not make it through the winter.
I thought that maybe all her years as a pet she never went through a winter
hibernation and that's why she died over the winter.


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