Should you put your pet turtle back in the wild?

No, your turtle will be used to being fed and die of starvation because it doesn't know how to hunt.

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Not true ! ALL animals have a 'basic instinct' to survive. They will naturally seek out the food they're genetically programmed to eat (nothing to do with what they were fed in captivity)

Look at all those large pythons people have released into the Everglades in Florida - 99% of those will never have had to hunt for their own food before release - yet - they are obviously surviving !

Having said that - you should ONLY release a pet turtle back into the wild IF it can be released into the SAME environment it would NATURALLY be found in !