Aunty Carol's Good Deed for the Day

Mom came back with this interesting story to tell us. She'd taken the Kid out for lunch with Aunty Carol and her human boys this afternoon after feeding us a scrumptious lunch of course.

Aunty Carol had been in Hong Kong and while dining in a restaurant, saw a spiky shelled turtle in a tank. She couldn't bear that it might be cooked and promptly negotiated to buy it from the restaurant.

The restaurant was reluctant to let it go but agreed to sell it to her at market price, which turned out to be S$600 (around US$400)! But she figured turtles live a long time and the critter was probably only 20 so she'd be giving it another 80 years at least.

The lovely Aunty then took a cab with turtle in plastic bag (lousy restaurant didn't even have a box to give her) to the nearest shore and met a diver there who told her that this was a fresh water turtle!

Relieved Aunty told the nice cab driver to take her to the nearest fresh water body, which happened to be some sort of reservoir with fish in them, and she released the grateful turtle there.

Although it cost her most of her arm and two legs, Aunty Carol was happy that she gave the turtle a new lease of life. Now that is what we cats call, a hero.