weirdest pet acquisition
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Nothing exciting like some of you guys accounts but I was walking home one day and as I was walking past a driveway behind some houses a box turtle crossed my path.The turtle surely would have soon gotten crushed by a car so I picked it up and brought it home with me.
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I opened up my front door one morning and a box turtle was on my doorstep right in front of the door. I literally had to roll him over to get out the door. Brought him somewhere else safer and far more enjoyable by turtle standards.
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Thanks! Same to you! I like rescuing turtles when they are trying to cross the roads, too.
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Oh, I remembered another story...
We were at a shooting range on a hot August midday. Lo and behold, my fiance tells me to go cold. As soon as I do, he darts.out onto the range and I notice he's chasing a snake. Halfway there he starts yelling its a rattler and I start cringing. As we both got closer we realized right away it was a pine snake. A big, fat, hot pine snake. Lol he grabs that thing up and it bites him one time. After that he gets the pillowcase out of the truck and says we have a new pet and proceeds to clean up the blood. Lol
We still have that snake, though he isn't enjoying his domestication. That snake is impressive!
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We were at a shooting range on a hot August midday. Lo and behold, my fiance tells me to go cold. As soon as I do, he darts.out onto the range and I notice he's chasing a snake. Halfway there he starts yelling its a rattler and I start cringing. As we both got closer we realized right away it was a pine snake. A big, fat, hot pine snake. Lol he grabs that thing up and it bites him one time. After that he gets the pillowcase out of the truck and says we have a new pet and proceeds to clean up the blood. Lol
We still have that snake, though he isn't enjoying his domestication. That snake is impressive!
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Puts me in the mind of the massive toad crossing near here that will be coming up soon.
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Yeah we will start gearing for the box turtle rescue soon enough here. It's always rewarding saving one of those little guys. I keep hand sanitizer in my car so I don't get too many germs from the little guys.
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There was a pond at the school I taught at. One day on a fish census lab, we would go fishing and tally sizes and species over a seven year period, we found a two inch large mouth bass stuck in an old sandwich bag. It was barely breathing. We put it into an aquarium and it rolled over on its back and stayed there. I grabbed opened its mouth slightly pushing water over its gills witj a small powerhead. It came back after about 15 mins and ended up becoming a class pet for 3 years. In that time he got to over 4 lbs and was a lot of fun for my students to watch eating everything from cut smelt and shrimp to crawfish, frogs, and mice.
Left to start a PhD and left the Marine Biology class in the hands of another teacher. She successfully destroyed the class in one semester. We had 60 aquariums and two 2500 gallon Intex pools modified for aquaculture in a greenhouse. One of the pools was full of africans about 2000 future breeders. She put the bass in there with them because she didnt want to have to come inside and take care of his tank over the summer. He ate every fish over the summer and got huge from what I understand. She then changed the water in the 200 gallon clownfish breeding suatem and didnt add salt to the water wiping out my refugiums. Needless to say what took me 7 years to build up was destroyed in 5 months.
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Left to start a PhD and left the Marine Biology class in the hands of another teacher. She successfully destroyed the class in one semester. We had 60 aquariums and two 2500 gallon Intex pools modified for aquaculture in a greenhouse. One of the pools was full of africans about 2000 future breeders. She put the bass in there with them because she didnt want to have to come inside and take care of his tank over the summer. He ate every fish over the summer and got huge from what I understand. She then changed the water in the 200 gallon clownfish breeding suatem and didnt add salt to the water wiping out my refugiums. Needless to say what took me 7 years to build up was destroyed in 5 months.
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Oh no! That really stinks to hear all that happened, and in such a short time. I have no words for how mad I would be if that happened with my hard work.
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