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Bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze.

Bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze.

Sit Stay Rollover, Good Turtle.

Mitchell Spero said he has spent 10 years training his pet turtle to do things like sit, heel, stay and roll over. Spero, a psychologist, said his turtle, Florida, has helped children deal with the trials and tribulations of life.

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Spero said the children catch on quickly, but adults are more skeptical. "They think I'm kidding," he said. "'Your turtle does tricks; what are you talking about?'"