Gotta love it Bert,great stuff!!
I “love” snapping turtles .... they are awesome, as long as one isn’t latched on to one of your body parts! The biggest one I ever saw was on an interstate road - evidently decided to cross for some reason. It was as big as a car tire - seriously.
The funniest one was a large snapper crossing the road & it was large enough to cause a traffic snarl - no one wanted to hit it. A police officer had stopped to help out with traffic. Evidently, the turtle was moving too slowly (or not at all) for him so he called (me - I was the dispatch officer for his district that day) & asked for the Animal Control officer to come relieve him. The AC officer laughed and told me that he was on the other side of the county - tell the officer to “escort the turtle across the road”. The other officers on the radio got a good laugh ... the turtle escort ... not so much.