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08-06-2003, 03:44 PM
mattie
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Wildlife and ponds
(GrampysGurl) wrote in message ...
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I've read you should take the turtle to the side it's headed for, and
place it a few feet off the road facing the way it was going.
Alan
That's what I do
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While driving my husband & I approched a huge turtle in the middle of
the road . I jumped out to help the turtle to the other side of road
like we did in Cal. with a tortoise once. I grabbed the back of the
shell to carry it when it snapped around at me. I screamed and let
go. It had been hit by a car. Their was a pool of blood on the road.
I picked it up again from behind carrying it across to the grass.
We found a wild life rehibilitator & exrays were taken to see if the
turtle would live. If eggs were in the turtle they would save the
eggs.
The turtle weighed 18 1/2 lbs. I didn't even know how stupid I was to
handle this snapping turtle. Believe me, I was lucky! Old man said,
they don't let go once they bite. They can jump with their two front
feet. Their necks are long . Thier swift in biting. You use a long
tree limb to scoot them across the road.
Guess what. If I ever pass a woman in the middle of a road & she's
trying to help a snapping turtle who got run over I will at least tell
her the danger of an inexperienced person trying to do a good deed! No
body did that for me. Dozens' of cars passed by. Luckly, I still
have ten fingers.
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