DAD!!! THERE'S A SNAPPING TURTLE IN THE DRIVEWAY AGAIN!!!
By JJ
@JolietJake (50190)
April 29, 2017 2:44pm CST
We went through this last year.
I came home from work a couple times and found a snapping turtle a few feet from the driveway after a heavy rain. The second time, I relocated him down to the drainage ditch next to the railroad tracks at the bottom of a hill where our property ends.
Didn't want Scar tangling with it, and that seemed to solve the problem.
Now, just over a year later...he's back.
(Just checked facebook, it was April 11th last year)
Or one of the same size, anyway.
Scar let me know something was going on outside, so I went to look, and there at the end of the driveway was Mr. Turtle.
Evil tempered bastage.
So I grabbed him by his tail and took him off to the tracks...he wasn't too pleased by it.
Hopefully this time it gets the message. 
You don't belong here. I expect to see puddles of water in the yard when I come home from work, not puddles of snapping turtles. [em]w00t[/em] Bu there he...
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@crossbones27 (50919)
• Mojave, California
29 Apr 17
Damn, that is messed up. Made him walk for a year out of his way, all to do the same thing over again. Poor guy. 
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@JolietJake (50190)
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29 Apr 17
Scar is too inquisitive and that guy could easily take a few toes off.
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@crossbones27 (50919)
• Mojave, California
29 Apr 17
@JolietJake I hear you, hopefully he goes left this time instead of right. lol
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@NJChicaa (123579)
• United States
29 Apr 17
@JolietJake we have squirrels, possums, maybe a raccoon, rabbits, and the occasional skunk. Nothing exciting.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
29 Apr 17
Oh wow I have not seen a snapping turtle since I was a little girl.
My Dad used to get them and sometimes we used them for bait..mean I know.
I can see he is not pleased look at the open mouth hissing prolly lol
I can see he is not pleased look at the open mouth hissing prolly lol2 people like this
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
29 Apr 17
@JolietJake lol yep fish heads remember them too...once we got a dirty big old catfish and I cut the head off and the body was still swimming ewww haha haunted.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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29 Apr 17
One pond I used to fish was full of them, sometimes I would pull a stringer of fish out to add one to it and the fish on the end would be only a head
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@boiboing (13152)
• Northampton, England
30 Apr 17
@JolietJake Curiosity got the cat bitten on the nose.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
30 Apr 17
The turtle probably just got swooshed up by the water and relocated @JolietJake . But yeah, I can just see Scar smacking Mr. Turtle around. Of course, he could consider it a 'new' 'toy'.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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30 Apr 17
I doubt he'd get any smacks in, he'd probably lose part of a paw. He came uphill against running water to get to my drive...probably looking for food or possibly to lay eggs
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
30 Apr 17
@JolietJake Most turtles will tuck their heads inside their shell, but with a snapping turtle; ya never know. Mr. Turtle must just like your place.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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30 Apr 17
@nanette64 Snappers will almost always fight, and they are extremely quick
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@JolietJake (50190)
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30 Apr 17
It could very well be, I should have 'marked' the shell. I just wish they would stop coming up the hill from the drainage ditch.
@JolietJake (50190)
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30 Apr 17
@diosabella They have a very powerful bite and don't want to let go when they grab on. Scar could easily lose a couple of toes messing with one.
@diosabella (4789)
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30 Apr 17
@JolietJake Are they dangerous? We never had snapping turtle here. Just some green old turtles when ever there's heavy rains and the rice paddies over flows.
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@celticeagle (176809)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Apr 17
Ouch! Those things look nasty. You have your own alarm system there don't you?
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@allknowing (149312)
• India
30 Apr 17
You could have adopted him but I suppose scar and a turtle are not perfect companions (lol)
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@JolietJake (50190)
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30 Apr 17
Seems they want to come up the ditch hunting food when it is full and running heavy
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@JohnRoberts (109845)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Apr 17
That turtle looks like a nasty tempered brute. Scar don't want to mess with that.
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@JolietJake (50190)
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29 Apr 17
I remember catching one as a kid, carrying it along and letting it get a bit too close to my leg...
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@kobesbuddy (78856)
• East Tawas, Michigan
27 May 19
I need to ask you a question. How can you tell the difference between a regular turtle and a snapper? Mom's cousin had snappers living in a pond. A duck landed on the water one day and ended up with a foot missing!
@kobesbuddy (78856)
• East Tawas, Michigan
28 May 19
@myklj999 So they have a mouth like a parrot's beak, they're actually mean by nature.
