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Post by bobbbiez on May 18, 2011 21:51:20 GMT -5
 This was funny as hell. We were driving home from Utica on Rt 12-N when I spotted a huge snapping turtle in the middle of the road and I made RJ pull over. It was so busy on Rt 12 since it was the time everyone was getting out of work, but there we were in the middle of the road trying to get this huge turtle out of danger with nothing in the car to lift him up with. So, I told RJ to try to kick the turtle off the road with his foot as all the cars passing us were actually slowing down and moving into the other lanes so we can accomplish our feat. The foot wasn't working so I was screaming at RJ to just pick the damn thing up ( I did promise RJ I'd drive him to the emergency room if the turtle bit him.) Now, there is RJ jumping all over Rt 12 as the turtle is jumping at him every time he gets close to it. Got to admit I almost pi**ed my pants laughing so hard. Finally, RJ gets a good grip on the back of him and gets the thing to the side of the road. I was relieved and so was RJ. We start to drive back home when all of a sudden I get this vision of the turtle going back in the middle of Rt 12. You got it........I made RJ go back and start all over again and try to get the turtle in my trunk of my car. Funny, funny, funny! This time I did pi** my pants laughing so hard. RJ succeeded and we drove home with this huge "stinky" turtle in my trunk. Much easier for RJ to get him out of the trunk with a shovel to take him down to our pond and release him to his new home. He looked very happy as he swam under the water. We weighed him before we put him in the pond. He weighed 19+ lbs. Kind of hard to keep him still while we weighed him. ;D ps: I won't go into the part where I fell into our pond trying to take our new friend's picture as he swam away. 
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Post by chris on May 18, 2011 23:35:49 GMT -5
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Post by bobbbiez on May 18, 2011 23:41:06 GMT -5
You're too funny, Chris. ;D Thanks for posting the pictures of our new family member. You're the best girlfriend. 
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Post by Disgusted-Daily on May 19, 2011 0:30:59 GMT -5
Great story with a great ending. It reminds me way back in the day when I was working at the gas station on commercial Drive. They were digging up the road and out came a huge snapping turtle. This thing was huge and pissed off. How it was living under the road always amazed me. No pond near by so we put him back of a dump truck and away he went. I wonder if that was the same turtle.  |
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Post by bobbbiez on May 19, 2011 0:45:33 GMT -5
Todd, I would like to think it is the same little snapping turtle I picked up off the road at my camp at Delta Lake about four years ago. My grandson, little Marco, named him Chomper and I had him for about two years. Then I day I put Chomper in his bath tub on my front porch to get some sun and not realizing he got bigger, he managed to climb out of his tub and just disappeared for good. Marco and I were both heart-broken.  You can bet, I'm gonna tell little Marco that Chomper came home. ;D
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Post by Disgusted-Daily on May 19, 2011 0:49:24 GMT -5
A great addition to your story and little Marco is lucky to have a Grandmother to tell stories that he will remember forever and pass along to his kids. |
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Post by JGRobinson on May 19, 2011 4:54:34 GMT -5
Cute, RJ still got all his fingers? Snapping turtles are stinky! Better warn Marco, dont play with Chomper!
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Post by virgilgal on May 19, 2011 6:35:19 GMT -5
What a great adventure and excellent pictures to accompany it! Thanks for sharing it here! The last picture is the BEST!!! I think you have all the makings of a great kids book if you can continue to track your new friend in its new home. It's certainly a story to pass down through the generations...
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Post by clarencebunsen on May 19, 2011 8:19:54 GMT -5
Bobbiez,
I think you would get along well with my daughter. I thought she was the only one who would rescue a turtle (even paid a vet bill). In her case the "pond" is a 50 gallon one in the middle of her living room.
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Post by Clipper on May 19, 2011 8:24:44 GMT -5
When I was a junior in high school I worked for a vet in Newport, cleaning kennels and assisting him with animals. I was amazed when someone brought in a huge old snapping turtle that had been clipped by a car. He gave it antibiotics, and patched it's cracked shell with auto body putty. Hey, it might not be a clean one owner any more, but how many turtles have you heard of that have bondo in their body work. It saved it's life, haha.
The guy that brought it in said he just clipped the edge of it's shell and flipped it like a tiddly wink, so he stopped and picked it up and brought it to Doc Newman. It was cool. Pink lumpy bondo, but a patch that protected the shell and the turtle from harm.
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Post by firstamendment on May 19, 2011 13:53:14 GMT -5
I am ear to ear right now after reading that!
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2011 14:05:03 GMT -5
I think they sell turtle food at Walmart. He lools like a big eater! Nice photo's and you deserve the Humanitarian Award of the Year---whatever that is in Turtle language.
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Post by clarencebunsen on May 19, 2011 14:52:29 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on May 19, 2011 18:16:46 GMT -5
Turtle food?  That turtle probably eats large house cats and small children. lol   |
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Post by bobbbiez on May 19, 2011 18:29:18 GMT -5
Just want our new Chomper to leave our geese and ducks alone. The rest have to fend for themselves. ;D
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This was funny as hell. We were driving home from Utica on Rt 12-N when I spotted a huge snapping turtle in the middle of the road and I made RJ pull over. It was so busy on Rt 12 since it was the time everyone was getting out of work, but there we were in the middle of the road trying to get this huge turtle out of danger with nothing in the car to lift him up with. So, I told RJ to try to kick the turtle off the road with his foot as all the cars passing us were actually slowing down and moving into the other lanes so we can accomplish our feat. The foot wasn't working so I was screaming at RJ to just pick the damn thing up ( I did promise RJ I'd drive him to the emergency room if the turtle bit him.) 
That turtle probably eats large house cats and small children. lol 
