I have a Therapy Turtle.
It gets me to the front of the line at a lot of places and good seats at restauraunts which helps after I use my fake handi-cap sticker cause I am to frigen lazy to park where I am supposed to.
Well, good luck to you. I’m thinking you may actually have a small tortoise vs a turtle. Aren’t tortoises mostly land based? Whereas a turtle is always searching for the next pool or puddle of water. And search they will. I think they can smell the water.