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In reply to the discussion: Yesterday [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)36. I live in a dirt road amidst a national forest.
When I drive in the warm months (Michigan) I always am on the lookout for turtles who apparently like to sun themselves on the gravel roads here. I have seen too damned many of them squashed by car or tractor tires. What we have here are the more common turtles, not snappers -- although they inevitably try to bite your fingers off when you attempt to assist them.
The secret is to grab them from the back of their shell, shoving their rear legs into their shell -- those legs do have claws -- and carry them in the direction they're pointing on the road, or towards the nearest wet place, whichever is closest.
I have done this a few times each year and it is a very satisfying thing to do.
Thanks for the post.
R&K
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