Blondiee Saves an Alligator Snapping Turtle

‘Blondiee113’ wrote: “Saved this guy’s life yesterday…we were both a bit scared.”

Alligator Snapping Turtle

“He was stuck on the highway trying to cross with a concrete barrier separating the two sides. We had to get him. Now he’s on a farm with a creek and 1000 acres…and other Alligator Snapping Turtles.

He could have been a she…I have no idea how to tell and I wasn’t getting that close! Screamed like the girl I am when it jumped for the first time. The claws are huge too!

When he was in the middle of the highway I realized how big and scary it was…so I made my husband carry it to the car. As he tried to grab him the first time the turtle jumped about 3 inches. Scared the shot out of us.

We put him in the back of the car to take across the highway where he was going. That was a dump, I mean literally a landfill. So we took him out to the country to a friends farm and let him go there.

When I got dressed to go to the farm I wasn’t anticipating that I would be carrying a turtle that size at any point during the day. I only had the jacket on because we had to drive with the windows down because he smelled like sewage.”    🙂

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