dbt in chinese markets
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Good news I checked out fifteen chinese supermarket in five cities in the L.A. area(Rosemead, San Gabriel, El Monte, Alhambra, and Monterey Park). I did not find ANY terrapins!!! Unfortunately one store I did find about thirty red ear slider and in an other store I found three Florida soft shelled turtles. This was the first time I have ever looked for turtles in any markets. I don’t know if it was just that dbts are out of season or not. Has anyone ever found dbts in chinese markets in the LA area. Jonathan
Attachments :My adult female is from the Chinese market in Toronto , Canada. She was purchased not by myself, about 3 years ago.I have had to do major rehab work on her since i purchased her. Since then, I have been scanning both the Toronto and Montreal chinese food markets searching to rescue more.Unfortunately I had no sucess. I say unfortunately because since new importation laws have been in place, I believe the markets must now hide the specimens they have for sale since it is illigal to sell live turtles in the markets. I am caucasian so they believed that i am going to report them and they deny that they ever had turtles for sale. Hopefully, these places are no longer supplying live turtles, but I doubt this very much since eating turtles is a strong part of asian culture. The chinese have have almost eating my beloved chinese box turtles to extinction in china.There is a season for finding turtles in the markets.I belive it is between the chinese New Year, and spring. We should start to see a saturation of the market of baby diamondbacks because many will purchse gravid females from themarkets, collect their eggs and let the female die since they are in such bad shape. I have attached a picture of my adult female. Julie Montreal,Quebec http://www.chelonian.net Jonathan wrote:
I found mine in a Chinese market in Cleveland, Ohio in May. According to my mother, they were selling live DBTs all the way into November. At the last check a few weeks ago, however, all of the dbts they had were frozen )-: Rowena
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