Quote Originally Posted by Kurt View Post
Just tell people the reason why its a bad idea and why its illegal! If you catch some doing this, you report them to Fish & Wildlife (DNR)

Also there are for subspecies of painted turtle, Chrysemys picta and they are not all native to the same area. They are all distinctly different too.
western, C. p. belli
eastern, C. p. picta
southern, C. p. dorsalis
midland, C. p. marginata
Yes I know yhe different subspecies. guy said it was an eastern painter. But I strongly doubt it, if he got it from the pa, hamburg festival either that was an illegal buy or he got the wrong species. Because any native animal to pa is illegal to buy in pa. Easterns range through pa. It goes from the middle east of the states to the upper parts. I dont know if it reaches florida tis why I said middle east. But yeah. I dont know the dnr. And how am I supposed to get the names of the people throwing the animals away?