I meant to post this earlier. Last Friday, I was driving along a remote back road to avoid local flooding when I saw something moving slowly across it. I got pretty close in the heavy rain before I could identify it as a snapping turtle.
I began looking for a pull off where I could park long enough to go move the turtle. As it happened, there was an older gentleman parked in the nearest available spot, and he was already on his way to do the job.
Seeing that gave me a bit of hope.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Hope that someone else would have to risk it? I hear they can be quite vicious?
Salo
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Aug 7, 2018
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you can ipick them up by grasping the rear of their shell or slide them onto something else to scoot them on..They are predictable in their strike and don't do it unless you are messing with them
Of course then there are people like me that don't know all the snappers and pick them up and look straight into their shells. That one had mercy oon me
JimG:
I've never seen one that I'd consider pleasant.
@btroje I used to move a lot of snappers. I always grabbed them by the shell near their rear legs. One day one almost got me cause its neck stretch was the craziest I ever saw. It stuck its neck out and reached back and its head was upside down, but reached all the way to the middle of its shell. Never saw one stretch that far.
@FatherOfNyx sounds like shades of the exorcist
@btroje Tank the turtle is pretty cool. Wouldn't want a wild one following me around though.
@AstralSmoke I don't think they follow. when I lived in Alabama all of them were just trying to get away from two leggers
@btroje I believe you're correct. I've seen a couple of pissed off ones though!
@AstralSmoke pissed off is easy to find. THey are even tempered-always pissed off
