HELP NEEDED IMMEDIATELY! Rescued turtle!
Okay so I was looking out into my parents' backyard and I see a massive turtle making a break for the bamboo. I was admiring how massive he is and was going to go out to look at him. My mother said "that thing looks like the creature from the Black Lagoon", because apparently he has stuff stuck to him and looks nasty and ahs something stuck to his foot. Now I go from curious to concerned. I go out to get him, and good LORD, I swear he has some sort of TAR caked onto him. This is no mud or sludge I've never seen; it's this disgusting, thick black GUNK that apparently was also there a few weeks ago when my mother saw him. I get the hose and try to rinse it off for him, but water won't do. I try dawn soap (but no scrub brush or sponge) and I got off the extra accumulated stuff by scraping it off with my fingers, but unfortunately I couldn't get further than that. It took me 10 minutes to scrub the stuff off my hands. I have him in a bucket in my room so I could come here and ask what to do. If you give me a second, a picture is on its way.
I have no clue what kind of turtle it is, but maybe some sort of snapping turtle? He has yet to retreat into his shell and instead keeps stretching his neck out. The only snapping turtle I'm familiar with is an alligator snapping turtle (which he is not) so I don't know. Sludge covers up his pattern.
Re: HELP NEEDED IMMEDIATELY! Rescued turtle!
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OctagonGecko729
Leave him soaking in the warm Dawn dish washing soap for at least 30 minutes and put enough so its soapy in there. Not sure what he got into but it looks like he had tar poured on him.
Thats why I was wondering if there was any road construction in the area because they tar over the layers of asphalt, maybe it got caught in the road when they were doing that.