City Turtle!

At work this morning, a client walked in and said "Did you know you have a turtle in your parking lot?".

We've had a ton of rain lately, and all the streams and ditches are full. This guy was sitting the middle of the (very shallow) puddle in the parking lot. We're in the middle of town...just a bunch of houses and convenience stores around...so I'm not sure where he came from. This evening I'm taking him out to the country and releasing him in a friend's pond where I've seen other snappers. He's a little over a foot long (not including tail) and very very grumpy!

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Looks grumpy!! We put a large one in a rubbermaid trash can to relocate it from heavy traffic, by the time we turned him loose we had holes bitten thru the can. He was in there about 10 min. max and those cans are sturdy!:eek:

I am glad thst some snappers are being helped along. Most people around here see them as nasty things to shoot :(
I am always so amazed by theose CLAWS that they have.. those are some major hugeness.
Mark and I relocated several for our neighbor who breeds fancy koi. It's funny because our neighbor went soft.. he had vicious plans to shoot the evil fish-eating turtles.. but never fired a shot. Instead he begged mark to relocate them.. hehe

Wow look at the size of that thing. I've handled a snapper once and he was maybe 5 inches big. Nearly bit my little fingers off. I put him back in a ditch where I thought he came from.

Awww he is so adorable and looks happy to be rescued from a small puddle. :D

Ah that brings back memories. When I was young (and stupid) and lived in the country. We'd be fishing or hanging out on my friends dock on their lake. And occastionally you'd see one just below the surface and we used to dive in onto their backs and pull them up and out of the water. Those things were M-E-A-N MEAN. Then again, I would be too if some dumb kids just jumped on my back and pulled me out the way we did.

I'm surprised we still have all of our fingers and toes...well except Chris. He lost a toe to one of them (well we think it was one of them) We were swimming one day and he got bit by something, took the toe right next to his pinky toe clean off. Well...maybe not clean.....nice and gory though :-p

My sisters ex-husband is a cop and got a call from an elderly woman who had one in her driveway. He put it in the trunk of his car and brought it to me before he released it. That thing was monstrous I may be exaggerating here but I remember it being around 3 feet long.

It just wanted to give us all Kisses.....Bloody kisses that is.

I love these guys, he's a really pretty one too!