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Stray dog slaughters 23 baby sea turtles just hours after they hatched on Florida beach
NY Post ^

Posted on 08/22/2025 7:03:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin

A stray dog massacred 23 newly hatched sea turtles on a North Florida beach just hours after the babies emerged from their nests, sparking calls for locals to leash their pets.

The tiny carcasses were discovered during a routine survey by the Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol in Atlantic Beach, officials announced in an August 21 Facebook post.

The slaughter occurred near Second Street as the vulnerable hatchlings made their first desperate crawl toward the ocean, investigators say.

Evidence at the gruesome scene pointed to an unleashed pet as the culprit behind the carnage.

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The suspected canine remains at large, prompting Atlantic Beach officials to issue an urgent plea for beachgoers to photograph and report any loose dogs to police immediately.

The timing of the attack makes it particularly heartbreaking. Sea turtles typically come ashore to dig their nests on beaches, with eggs incubating for approximately 60 days in the sun-warmed sand, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dog; dogs; florida; seaturtles; turtle; turtles
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To: piasa

Years ago they used to have open season on “wild dogs” in Minnesota. Any dog (many with collars would join a pack for awhile) chasing deer could be shot. I never did, but it was a thing.

I have a neighbor that brags about the number of rabbits his dog kills and eats. I said “Well - what about the poor coyotes?”


41 posted on 08/23/2025 12:15:26 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: BenLurkin

“…… sparking calls for locals to leash their pets.”

Just like the gun control nuts, punish all of the people who responsibly own pets because one feral mutt did something.

News flash: The STRAY dog doesn’t have owners.

EC


42 posted on 08/23/2025 3:03:43 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: BenLurkin

The turtles have grown complacent towards danger with all the protection they get. Their situational awareness is at an all-time low.


43 posted on 08/23/2025 3:56:12 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: BenLurkin

Rush’s show today would have been interesting. Wasn’t he a target of the tree huggers because of his lights and the poor turtles?


44 posted on 08/23/2025 4:10:24 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: BenLurkin

Dog is irritated - says he ordered 2 dozen - only got 23


45 posted on 08/23/2025 4:10:59 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Rappini
Maybe he was hungry

Nah, consider how much fun that pup had when all those squeaky-toys emerged and flip-flopped towards to water. That dog was in playtime heaven. Not the dogs fault.

Shouldn't have been off-leash, but I wasn’t there….who knows what the circumstances were. Guaranteed the dog had fun. 🤩

46 posted on 08/23/2025 4:20:33 AM PDT by paulcissa
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To: doc maverick

That’s not the real culprit, it was simply added as an example of a dog on the beach.


47 posted on 08/23/2025 4:30:32 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: BenLurkin

23? The claim is that less than 1 in 100 live anyway.


48 posted on 08/23/2025 4:35:38 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: BenLurkin

“Evidence at the gruesome scene pointed to an unleashed pet as the culprit behind the carnage. ..”

Why don’t they ever use that sort of language about abortions or violence in the “Hood(s)”?


49 posted on 08/23/2025 5:04:31 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like ratter genes.
He was only doing what nature would have done anyway once those babies hit the water.
People are very sensitive these days, as long as the slaughtered is not a human.


50 posted on 08/23/2025 5:36:23 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Hang the dog.

We’re talking turtles people, not just stupid “clumps of human cells”. This is unconscionable.

These clumps had a life to live!!!


51 posted on 08/23/2025 7:32:36 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: BenLurkin

Yesterday I was talking to a woman who was horrified because she had just seen an owl with a puppy in its talons, obviously about to be eaten. Who knows? Maybe the puppy would have grown up to be a turtle-killer.


52 posted on 08/23/2025 8:24:00 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: BenLurkin

Slaughters?

There was no forethought. There was no “feeling”.

It was INSTINCT!

It was a killing not a slaughter. It was “natural”.


53 posted on 08/23/2025 10:24:53 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: BenLurkin

See Spot.
See Spot eat.
Eat, Spot, eat.
Eat. Eat. Eat.


54 posted on 08/23/2025 10:25:33 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: x

Calling Kristi Noem.


55 posted on 08/23/2025 10:29:16 AM PDT by toast
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To: BenLurkin

How did anything live before humans had to protect them?


56 posted on 08/23/2025 11:14:31 AM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: BenLurkin

A slaughter of 23 out of how many millions each year?


57 posted on 08/23/2025 11:21:54 AM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: vpintheak
Granted only one in a thousand grew to be an adult. But once they reached adulthood they lived a very long time and reproduced. When you reproduce for a couple hundred years you have at least 30 offspring that become adults.

Humans hunted and ate them as adults. Which was not a problem because there were so many turtles. Until we began doing it commercially.

If you are going to harvest on a commercial level you have to farm on a commercial level as well.

Which is what we are starting to do.

58 posted on 08/23/2025 12:40:27 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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