thank god that lump in the water moved

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crayfishguy

crayfishguy

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yesterday at a pond I was trying to catch turtles, not having any luck I started walking home as I randomly looked in the water and saw a little lump about a foot away from the edge of the lake move. I walked down to it to see what it was, it was a 12" female res., I reached down to grab it thinking "I'm never gonna get it." I used a stick that was next to the turt and used it to pull her in closer after grabbing her I noticed some fishing line wrapped around the stick and its leg I grabbed my knife and cut the line off the stick and her leg and threw it away. after that i released the turtle



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WTG on helping the turtle. One time my painted turtle got a case of RI and I fed him medicated food and upped his temp. He was "sneezing" and it was so sad. After a couple days he was back to health.
 
just about everything in my collection is a rescue of one sort or the other. The worst was a pair of leopard geckos that the owners fed on the same schedule as their snakes ie. 2 crix a week. they really didn't have any tails to speak of. Within a month of me having them, they looked like any other fat healthy leo, with great tails!
 
crayfishguy;5123218; said:
yesterday at a pond I was trying to catch turtles, not having any luck I started walking home as I randomly looked in the water and saw a little lump about a foot away from the edge of the lake move. I walked down to it to see what it was, it was a 12" female res., I reached down to grab it thinking "I'm never gonna get it." I used a stick that was next to the turt and used it to pull her in closer after grabbing her I noticed some fishing line wrapped around the stick and its leg I grabbed my knife and cut the line off the stick and her leg and threw it away. after that i released the turtle



share the times you helped an animal be it wild or a pet
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You cut here leg off!??!!?!?:WHOA:

Haha JK
 
Every year we collect the fresh road kill herps, especially turtles, and check for eggs in the bodies. We incubate the eggs and release the babies. We have been able to release some blue racers, some box turtles, and over 300 baby common snappers to date. We have also put some fiberglass patches on a few cracked turtle shells and were able to release them again.
 
crayfishguy;5123218;5123218 said:
yesterday at a pond I was trying to catch turtles, not having any luck I started walking home as I randomly looked in the water and saw a little lump about a foot away from the edge of the lake move. I walked down to it to see what it was, it was a 12" female res., I reached down to grab it thinking "I'm never gonna get it." I used a stick that was next to the turt and used it to pull her in closer after grabbing her I noticed some fishing line wrapped around the stick and its leg I grabbed my knife and cut the line off the stick and her leg and threw it away. after that i released the turtle



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one of the most moving threads i ve read in a while ,I salute you ////
 
This has nothing at all to do with turtles or fish buut i did save a wild animal.
Well basically i had just put my PWC down at a slipway, idling the engine to the middle of the area (not a lake here) so when i took the exit of the area through the coral reefs i spotted a small black thing just rippling the surface, i was doing atleast 30 kmph here. So i stopped turned aound and sowly moved towards it as i was curius to what it was. Turned out to be a small Mayna bird, in the middle of the ocean! :O The amazing thing was this lil fella knew i was saving him as he quickly moved towards my PWC, He climbed up on the side and i grabbed him from then on, dried him up and brought him back on land.

Hope my stories clear enough lol. interested to hear others :)
 
I got a 12" RES from a friend who found it in their yard near a local river. I put it in my 96,000 gallon pond so that it wouldn't end up getting into the river system since RESs are not native to PA.

And hat's about where the good part of the story ends. The turtle met its doom months later when my flathead catfish ate it. All I saw was the turtle swimming one minute then a big mouth coming up under it the next...
 
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