I got home from work the other day and my beagle was standing in the flower bed wagging her tail and looking at me, then pouncing in the mulch, then looking at me again. I called her to come in…and when she didn’t come went to investigate.
She’d managed to find a teeny baby box turtle, maybe 4" across somewhere and had him carefully buried in the mulch lol. I picked him up and relocated him to the ditch well out of her range.
I do not rescue snapping turtles, all others I will and have. Snappers kill all the baby duck, geese and every other thing they can catch. They do make a good soup after you have put them in a tub and rinsed them out for a while.
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I got home from work the other day and my beagle was standing in the flower bed wagging her tail and looking at me, then pouncing in the mulch, then looking at me again. I called her to come in…and when she didn’t come went to investigate.
She’d managed to find a teeny baby box turtle, maybe 4" across somewhere and had him carefully buried in the mulch lol. I picked him up and relocated him to the ditch well out of her range.[/QUOTE]
We have a household rule – if the Beagle won’t leave a certain spot, RUN, don’t walk – they’re getting themselves into trouble! That’s some pretty cute trouble though, burying a baby turtle :lol:
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I’v told the story of living next to an old quarry, filled in with water, was supposed to be 60 feet deep. Very private, no houses on it, except mine and an old couple’s, and me and my girls would skinny dip on moon-ful nigihts, Lots of fun. Until the day the cat and the horse were getting all worked up at something crashing out of the woodlot between their pasture and the lake, and out of the brush down to the house pond comes this dinosaur, kid you not. Yes, it was at least 3 feet across, about 4 feet long and I was shaking, so see something that large. I didn’t know whether the grab the halterless horse (how?) who wanted to prance around it, or the cat, who wanted to stalk it, first. It went into our pond and of course within a day or two all fish in the pond were gone. I presume it got out of the pond and went back to the lak. We never swam in the lake again, I can tell you that.
It was in Connecticut. I am not exaggerating on the size of that, either. I was flabber-aghasted.[/QUOTE]
This is my favorite turtle story of all time, starting now, and probably my favorite naked swimming story, too. I once saw a water moccasin in a pond I’d just gotten out of (nekkid, yes) . . . but, you shared the water with that dinosaur-turtle :eek: Thanks for retelling!
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I’v told the story of living next to an old quarry, filled in with water, was supposed to be 60 feet deep. Very private, no houses on it, except mine and an old couple’s, and me and my girls would skinny dip on moon-ful nigihts, Lots of fun. Until the day the cat and the horse were getting all worked up at something crashing out of the woodlot between their pasture and the lake, and out of the brush down to the house pond comes this dinosaur, kid you not. Yes, it was at least 3 feet across, about 4 feet long and I was shaking, so see something that large. I didn’t know whether the grab the halterless horse (how?) who wanted to prance around it, or the cat, who wanted to stalk it, first. It went into our pond and of course within a day or two all fish in the pond were gone. I presume it got out of the pond and went back to the lak. We never swam in the lake again, I can tell you that.
It was in Connecticut. I am not exaggerating on the size of that, either. I was flabber-aghasted.[/QUOTE]
I believe you! We have an old pond/creek not too far from us, lots of fauna… hacking by one day I saw a giant ripple crest the water like a shark fin… it was a snapper, not as big as yours but at least two feet across – paddling down stream. It was HUGE and I definitely rethought hanging my toes in the water the next time I went down there sans horse…
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