View Full Version : Huge Snapping Turtle at my local wildlife center
I snapped a few picks of this guy. I don't know how much it weighs but it's head is bigger than my fist. Looks like they overfeed it to me.
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Q
lol does look FAT (never knew turtles could be "fat")
Rbishop
04-06-2008, 2:55 PM
...soup time!
jaysen
04-06-2008, 3:43 PM
looks so cute, i just want to put my hand in his mouth and tickle his tongue! im sure he is friendly.
msjinkzd
04-06-2008, 3:45 PM
wow! thanks for sharing, soup does sound good bob....
captmicha
04-06-2008, 3:49 PM
Que, don't take jaysen's advice! It's a trick!
Yeah, that is one FAT turtle. I'm surprised a wildlife center would let it get that fat. Obesity in animals is way more unhealthy than in people. Well... People are animals too...
Snapping turtles can actually become very tame. I used to belong to a turtle forum when my turtle was alive and this girl's snapper had a dog bed and she would come into her room to find that he climbed out of his tank and climbed up into her bed and was fast asleep. She could sit next to him and everything. I don't know about petting.
The only fair way to keep them as a pet is to make sure that you have a HUGGGEEEEE aquarium because they need a lot of room to swim or a pond. Obviously. I want to get one one of these days... When I put in a pond of course. Or not b/c I wouldn't be able to have any other turtles in the pond.
jm1212
04-06-2008, 3:57 PM
he is huge!
duke33
04-06-2008, 3:58 PM
Wow!
Bnoble
04-06-2008, 6:23 PM
ninja turtle? (dude is huge)
Sploke
04-06-2008, 6:33 PM
Nice common...and yeah that thing is chunky. Its easy to overfeed snappers, especially since in captivity they just kind of sit there.
cool pic Que :)
my LFS has one of these - it roams around pretty much at will; I am waiting for the day when it picks off a customer (lawsuit!) :D
cool pic Que :)
my LFS has one of these - it roams around pretty much at will; I am waiting for the day when it picks off a customer (lawsuit!) :D
So instead of chasing ambulances you hang out at fish stores? My kinda lawyer.
Q
Vicious_Fish
04-07-2008, 10:20 AM
Yeah, that is one FAT turtle. I'm surprised a wildlife center would let it get that fat. Obesity in animals is way more unhealthy than in people. Well... People are animals too...
You've obviously have never kept Chelydra serpentina. They have a very small plastron so their skin bulges out and they look over weight. But it's totally normal. Most captive animals don't get the exercise they need. Commons are very active turtles so yeah, they can pack on the pounds. But he's not too fat.
Catpicklesdog
04-07-2008, 12:53 PM
WOW he's one mean looking beast! I want one!
Notophthalmus
04-07-2008, 1:01 PM
I think the record-sized captive common snapper was somewhere around 85 pounds- now that must have been a fat turtle!
I have a couple of adult male commons. I take them outside and put them in the grass on sunny days to give them a little fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. It sure pisses them off, though.
http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z161/Newt1453/bigsnapper.jpg
Vicious_Fish
04-07-2008, 2:43 PM
Nice snapper! My last rehabilitated snapper escaped out of my "escape proof" turtle pond a few years ago. I found him on the State Game Lands near my house one fall. He was hit by a mower or something and I nursed him back to health and kept him over the winter. in the spring I placed him in a 500 gallon pond for a little while to regain his strength and when I came out to check on him then next day he was gone. Hope he made it home safe and sound.
Some pics of him.
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc213/The_Interloper/Reptiles/snapper2.gif
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc213/The_Interloper/Reptiles/snapper1.gif
Reddog80p
04-07-2008, 4:29 PM
reminds me of jabba the hut :grinyes:
Lupin
04-07-2008, 11:40 PM
Cool!
Sarge_857
04-11-2008, 7:31 PM
...soup time!
indeed so!
one of my dads friends had a bunch of these in the swamp behind his house. 2 of there shells were 3 feet across!
BigFishKeeper
04-12-2008, 6:55 AM
****! Hes cute but huge!
Mgamer20o0
04-26-2008, 11:53 PM
its a monster
vaindioux
05-03-2008, 9:00 PM
Hi
I use to fish (No more) and there was a pond by my house that was loaded with all kind of fish and there were these huge snapping turtles that would pop their head out of the water a few feet away and look at me, they used to freak me out, I was always thinking what would happen if I had ever fallen in there and one was close by (Probably nothing I guess or maybe human soup? LOL!)
Patrick