DO I call animal control? It's pretty big and I can't pick ttah thing up, what if it doesn't go away and it bites one of my kid?
I have a pic...
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DO I call animal control? It's pretty big and I can't pick ttah thing up, what if it doesn't go away and it bites one of my kid?
I have a pic...
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AWWWWWWWWW he so cute.
Maybe he is someone's pet.
Be careful they can bite straight through the bone in your finger and are as fast as light (well not quite).
Yes I say call animal control and let someone with proper equipment handle it.
But I loveeeeee reptiles and he so cute.
yes call somone, you dont want that to bite you.
I called hte township cause I have no wild life rescue around here for some reason! Well it's cute but I don't want to get bit!it keeps going out ot the yard and then comes back to the door, poor thing.





Yeh dont put your fingers anywhere near it!!
Are they native where u live or would it be a pet?
maybe but the poor thing is trying to climb my fence!





Oh wow its a good climber!!
What is at the back of your house a road?
I forgot about the time diff it's midnight here in australia, when i saw the pic I was like oh it's daylight duhhh.
Are the animal control people on their way?
NO they haven't even called!
No I live at the end of a dead end st.





it looks small enough, you should be able to scoop it up with a shovel and/or nudge it into a big box... it probably needs water, so give it a deep dish with water in it and some crickets or even throw a couple of goldfish in the dish for it to eat until you can find it a home.
OR...put it in a deep box and take it to a lake or a pond and set it free!
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Well it didn't make it far, I just checked on it and it's laying in the shade, I have an old ferret cage, I'm going to put it in htere cause they haven't called and I don't want the poor thing to die, wish me luck...
Ok I got it! OMG it was so freaking hard! But I got it!
Off to take pics...
I had no clue the hissed! I gave it water, it was thirsty but it ain't friendly!





I had a turtle for like 13 years. They do hiss, and when they bite it HURTS. Mine was really sweet though. She LOVED LOVED LOVED a dinner of crickets and fresh strawberries or peaches. Mmm mmm she'd tell me.
WEll my husband took it to a creek around us, I hope it's ok he left teh cage open and tilted it a bit. He said it must of came from there and he hopes it it doesn't have babies cause it might be lostWell I'm off but thanks for the help, beliee me I felt bad for it but I wsa scared shitless cause my kids are little and if they see it they would want to touch it.





Most likely it's a female out laying eggs. It's really the only time snappers leave the body of water they live in.
Snapping turtles have deadly long necks and can generally reach to the back of thier shell. The lbs per inch pressure in thier jaws is crazy. You DO NOT want to be bitten.
Put her back where you found her. She'll eventually move along. They're heavy and moving on land takes a lot of of them so the rest often while traveling. In addition, if she hasn't laid yet you don't want to keep her waiting, she can become egg bound which can lead to death.
Here's one I found on her way back to water (I ended up moving her closer to water so she wouldn't get hit by a car.
*Note how I moved her, I put her in a container she couldnt turn around I or flip her head/neck up and back in
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^ that's a huge-ass turtle!
it's cute!
so is high_heel_lover's.



Wow I had no idea snapping turtles could be so big!
They get far bigger than that.There was a record setter (alligator snapper) in Kansas that was a tad over 400lbs if I remember correctly.
They're good for the ecology though as they're primarily scavengers and eat dead stuff off the bottoms of lakes etc keeping the water clean.
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omg wow those r huge.....i think we have like 5 turtles here now because everytime we see on on the road, we stop and take them home lol





Damn those are big turtles! They are cute though.
woah! those would of freaked me out!
We put her back where we thought she or was from, my mom was like why didn't you bring it to me? she willl keep anything as a pet lol
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