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loved the box turtle when young...fed them lettuce, always move them to the side when they are crossing the road, as others do...
we also had a small snapping turtle who lived buried in a bowl of mud during winter...then during summer, he'd get out and we'd find him around the house. George. Yes, he did bite and yes it hurt...
We found a huge snapping turtle/tortoise? at the eastern coastline....my brother picked it up and it peed on him...served him right.
Lucky enough to make the turtle patrol rounds one yr. at the beach...present when the eggs hatched and all the little guys hurried to the water. Fascinating.
I used to live with a river as the backyard. Every spring the snappers would come up the bank and lay eggs in my backyard. Skunks would eat the eggs. IDK how they continue on. My husband found 3 eggs that skunks missed one year and he got them to hatch!
I used to live with a river as the backyard. Every spring the snappers would come up the bank and lay eggs in my backyard. Skunks would eat the eggs. IDK how they continue on. My husband found 3 eggs that skunks missed one year and he got them to hatch!
I had a friend who lived in Florida near one of beaches that the Sea Turtles came to lay their eggs.
He saw one crossing the highway so he put it in the back seat of his car to take it down to the beach.
When they got there it had gotten stuck under the passenger seat and he couldn't get it out and had to disassemble both seats and the tracks.
He got it out and it waddled off into the sand.
He had lost some parts in the sand and couldn't get the seats back together, so he walked home and reported his car stolen.
The next morning the cops called him and said they had found his car on the beach. They told him the thieves had started to strip it but must have gotten scared and ran off.
That was just what he hoped would happen. He was just about to thank the cops and call the AAA to tow it to the garage to have the seats put back in.
When the cops told him:
"The tide came in and it's now about 50 feet out in the surf. It's a total loss. You had better get it out of there before it gets farther out or you will have to pay a huge fine."
He still likes Turtles, but he hasn't rescued any recently.
We have quite a lot of box turtles where I live. There is nothing more cute as seeing babies traversing my backyard when they are the size of a fifty cent piece. Too cute!
I can remember being very young and sitting on the back of a large turtle ( tortoise, I guess, really) that my brother brought home. I don’t know how he got it home or what happened to it—I just remember being excited to ride on it.
That was the same brother who got into trouble from the game warden for bringing home a baby alligator.
I had three small green turtles in succession from the dime store. Thank goodness, they are no longer allowed to be sold. I named them all Willis Gordon. Each died. They had elaborate funerals and I buried them in the back yard.
I can remember being very young and sitting on the back of a large turtle ( tortoise, I guess, really) that my brother brought home. I don’t know how he got it home or what happened to it—I just remember being excited to ride on it.
That was the same brother who got into trouble from the game warden for bringing home a baby alligator.
I had three small green turtles in succession from the dime store. Thank goodness, they are no longer allowed to be sold. Each died. They were all named Willis Gordon.
LOL...3 Willis Gordons!
I had those too, from the dime store...
Riding a tortoise when young was a lot of fun, I bet.
Riding a tortoise when young was a lot of fun, I bet.
It was fun. I can remember very clearly sitting on the big tortoise and being happy. Not much else.
I don’t know where I got the name Willis Gordon, but I had Willis Gordon I, II, III.
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