Barbra said:I stop for turtles every time I see them on or by the road. I especially keep an eye out in the morning if it's rained. I haven't seen too many this year either.
jazz lady said:Same here. Not many turtle around that I've seen.
I did go to help one last year that was crossing in front of St. James Pub - until I realized it was a snapping turtle. He was on his own then.
Funny you should say that. I stopped one day to help a turtle across the road (like I always do) and I walked over to pick him up and it was a snapper! He started getting a huge attitude and hissing and having a fit. I tried talking nice to him :shrug: but the attitude continued, so I booted his butt across the road and into the ditch. Should have left his ungrateful self right there :turtlepie:Pasofever said:I help them too but like this
Pasofever said:I help them too but like this
Snappers that hiss scare meTinkerbell said:Funny you should say that. I stopped one day to help a turtle across the road (like I always do) and I walked over to pick him up and it was a snapper! He started getting a huge attitude and hissing and having a fit. I tried talking nice to him :shrug: but the attitude continued, so I booted his butt across the road and into the ditch. Should have left his ungrateful self right there :turtlepie:
Same here! Hubby and I were driving along many months ago and saw one in the road. We stopped, as did an older pickup truck. Hubby had already picked up the turtle and it was on its way back into the woods when the gentleman approached us. He wanted to use the turtle in soup.Pasofever said:I do that all the time..
Which is why he got my foot in his rear. If he had been nice, he would have been lovingly carried across the road and set down gently.Pete said:Snappers that hiss scare me
Chasey_Lane said:Same here! Hubby and I were driving along many months ago and saw one in the road. We stopped, as did an older pickup truck. Hubby had already picked up the turtle and it was on its way back into the woods when the gentleman approached us. He wanted to use the turtle in soup.
Barbra said:I think he lived somewhere around there because I've come across him too just down the road from the Pub. Tho' the last time he was there, a truck stopped and picked him up by the tail and threw him in the bed of the truck. I don't think he was going to a better place w/ the way he was handled.