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How very sweet!

I was able to save a big, heavy snapper a couple of weeks ago. I wonder how old she was? She kept turning around and snapping when I put her down, hoping that she would head to the pond a little ways away. I didn't want to leave her heading in the wrong direction towards heavy traffic, but I didn't want any ticks, so I was hoping rather than turning and snapping she would head for the pond. I kept getting her closer to the pond, but she wasn't cooperating. Finally, I believe, The LORD said to me in my heart, talk to her. So I started to talked to her and she calmed right down and stopped snapping. I was able to put her nearer to the pond without her being spastic, and she was headed in the right direction.

Later on the way back I checked the highway, but she wasn't dead on it. She must have gone into the pond. I was glad to see the road empty of of a dead turtle. There was a nasty tick on my coat, though, and all kinds of turtle slime:)

A while ago I was able to save a snapper who sat on my lap and behaved for about 30 miles all the way to the vet. We have an animal clinic in Madison that takes wild animals, treats them, and then gives them to someone who rehabilitates them and either get them back out into nature, if possible, or gives them to good souls who adopt them. The place has been a real God send.

We've shared our snapper stories B4....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2727874/replies?c=36

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2533095/replies?c=22

I never did find the article from Yankee Magazine a few years back about a fellow in the Northeast who rescues snappers and relocates them in other ponds/marshes for people who want them evacuated.

When we lived on a lake, we'd catch them and put them in marshlands far from us, two towns over. Vicious critters. Big as doormats. After I read the article, I figured that as fast as we were removing them, this guy was probably putting them back in our lake. ;)