my first pet

I barely remember my first pet. I think it was a turtle I was around the age of five when my brother in law took me to buy a pet (that was before he married my sister) we bought 2 turtles and one of them is still alive and roaming somewhere around the house and I see it around 3 times a year because he blends in with the sand and he's grown a lot, his hight is maybe around 10cm, and the other one was murdered by nephew he really likes animals and I was out of the country, and at that time they were still babies so we had to keep them in the house, he took out one of their nails and the next day he took out another and the turtle stopped eating so it starved itself to death.