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I Rescued a Turtle
allen griggs
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I saw this guy on Killiam Industrial Boulevard this morning in Laredo.
This is a busy 4 lane road, lots of truck traffic.
As I drove by at 40 mph, it looked like the turtle had gotten flipped upside down, but might not be injured.
So I turned around and stopped in the road.
Sure enough, a car had hit him and flipped him over.
Hard to believe it but he was unharmed. Not a scratch on the shell, the shell was not cracked!
I took him to the side of the road, took him about 50 feet from the road and set him down. I faced him away from the road.
He was quite lively and was wiggling around as I carried him.
I went back by a half hour later to check up on him. He was gone! And he didn't go back into the road.
This turtle had hauled *.
This is a busy 4 lane road, lots of truck traffic.
As I drove by at 40 mph, it looked like the turtle had gotten flipped upside down, but might not be injured.
So I turned around and stopped in the road.
Sure enough, a car had hit him and flipped him over.
Hard to believe it but he was unharmed. Not a scratch on the shell, the shell was not cracked!
I took him to the side of the road, took him about 50 feet from the road and set him down. I faced him away from the road.
He was quite lively and was wiggling around as I carried him.
I went back by a half hour later to check up on him. He was gone! And he didn't go back into the road.
This turtle had hauled *.
Comments
I have done the same thing many times. It has always made me feel good!!
+1
Thanks, Allen.
Peace
Dan
It looks like a red ear slider, and they are invasive in some areas, but indigenous in other areas.
https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/factsheet.aspx?SpeciesID=1261
its nice to see people care says a lot about them
I have stopped and carried turtles off the road a few times in my life even a snake one day [:0]
even if it is "just an old box turtle".
Sometimes I feel like one myself.
We were on a super busy 2 lane highway one Saturday morning and saw this poor little fella in the middle of the road tucked in tight! Cars, trucks, and motorcycles from both directions just whizzing by! Afraid to poke his head out or make a move!! He realized, he was in real big trouble.
We stopped and I dodged traffic to grab the little guy and my kids named him and kept him in a aquarium for a month or so before we released him by the creek at our farm.
We were on a very busy 2 lane highway and traffic was furious!
All of a sudden, she hits her brakes and stops right in the middle of the road! She gets out of her car and runs out in the other lane.
Grabs a big snapping turtle and quickly places it safely on the grassy roadside bank.
Many cars came to roaring stops, including mine!
She may have saved that turtle but nearly ended not only her life but a few other humans in the process.
My sister is the epitome and true picture of a tree hugger!
A couple of years ago, I was following my sister on our way to her house to help her set up for a yard sale.
We were on a very busy 2 lane highway and traffic was furious!
All of a sudden, she hits her brakes and stops right in the middle of the road! She gets out of her car and runs out in the other lane.
Grabs a big snapping turtle and quickly places it safely on the grassy roadside bank.
Many cars came to roaring stops, including mine!
She may have saved that turtle but nearly ended not only her life but a few other humans in the process.
My sister is the epitome and true picture of a tree hugger!
I like her![^]
do it all the time
not buy beer..(well maybe i do) but get Gods creatures out of harms way