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I don't condone harrassing any animal, and most of the snappers I dealt with just got transported far far away unless they were just too large or agressive. It's easy enough to just say to keep kids and pets away from the pond, but when a pond is built for swimming, water for the house, and fishing the snapper is the intruder, and is definately an intruder when you find it on your front porch. I also agree that they wont start chasing you, but if you unknowingly come across one you could be in trouble. You are also correct in needing a natural preditor for a pond that is lacking a preditory fish, but I would look for an alternative. These are just my experiences and in no way should anyone abuse, harrase or otherwise torment any animal no matter what it is, but sometimes a potentially hazzardous animal has to be removed.
 
:thm: that's cool then. Call animal control and they'll relocate 'em for you too (at least around here they do)... When I read the first post I thought you were like the crocodile hunter for snappers or something... I run into snappers quite a bit, but I've yet to have a problem that necessitated killing one.

Does kind of get annoying when one sets up shop in my favorite trout brook and I start catching beat up fish (if you catch them at all, a snapper will clean a brook out pretty quick).
 
roflmao i cant belive i heard someone advise pickign up a snapper by the shell.

lol you try that and we will be calling you nubs. the shovel ideas ok for smaller snappers but a LARGE snapper would be hard to even turn over with a shovel.

retty much if you come across a LARGE snapper just leave it or call animal control (although if your in a area where theres animal control a snapper of real size would be rare) but hell just leave it and be happy you still have a foot (yes a snapoper can take an adults foot off if it wants to . i acctually know a guy who is missing a hand due to a snapper he thought was a catfish (this involved noodling so it was stupid anyhow)

but lol yeah saying grab the shapper by the shell is like sayign just grab a tiger by its tail. haha you know how long a snapper neck is(espessially the species here in oklahoma , aligator snapping turtles) i bet a full size one could prolly bite you if you had it by the tail.
 
I always worry about them when I'm fishing... sometimes I'll walk into a pond or river wearing aqua socks on my feet... good for glass shards, no chance it would stop a riled snapper.

I'd never grab one by the shell they can extend that neck VERY far out and do so VERY quickly, it's their main trick when hunting... sit... sit... sit... snap!

I once saw a deer carcass at the water's edge of a large lake and there were three BIG snappers taking chunks out of it (I'm sure they didn't kill it, probably died of disease or poachers, but they're opportunistic scavengers/hunters).

Also saw one latched on to a great blue heron and if I hadn't intervened probably would have cost the bird it's foot/life (I whacked it on the shell with a branch and the turtle let go, I figured it was 50/50, either it would bite through or let go and the bird got lucky!) This has gone totally :OT:
 
jump??

i used to to watch snappers and big catfish strait up snatch ducks from the top of my grandparents pond . one second they were there the next spash and they are gone.
 
grafic design r: No I'm not the "snapper hunter" but I used to have so many people ask me to take care of snappers for them I would take a 22 and a shovel. Most of the snappers could be picked up with the shovel (very heavy), but some of the monsters would require two men to pick up and there is no way I was ever going to try to pick one up by the shell with them necks that are very very long. Those ones got a quick death with a bullet in the head. I hated doing it, but where I lived (out in the middle of nowhere) there was no real animal control (only in the closest city a half hour away) and the department of fish and game could care less so we were left to fend for ourselves, and for some reason everyone called me, even people I didn't know. I don't live there anymore so I don't know if fish and game ever started doing there job or not.

Onepawnup: Yes they jump! Thats what I meant about agressive they wont chase you or anything, but as soon as you get close to one he thinks he can eat you, or maybe he just feels threatned. If you ever come across one, at a safe distance, hold something over its head. When using the shovel to pick them up once for some reason I got distracted and was holding the shovel over him, and I turned around just in time to see a flying turtle, It scared the crap out of me. So I held the shovel over him again and sure enough he jumped probably 6" off the ground to get that shovel. I tried this with other turtles just to see if it was a freak turtle, but it wasn't, 98% of the snappers I did this with would try to get the shovel. It's amazing to see an animal jump that doesn't seem to have been built for it and that is so big it doesn't seem like it could drag its own body weight much less jump.
 
I tried, I really did...

But I just couldn't help myself. A snapper can strike, waddle and swim. Maybe if it was really PO'ed it could move quickly across the ground, but the day I see one do anything like jump (fleas jump, spiders jump, we're not talking a 3 or four inch hop towards the water off a raised rock...) I'll eat my hat.

 
Lol!!! Well, the next time you come across an aligator snapper, try the shovel trick, if he's pissed off enough at you being around you'll be eating your hat. Ok, so it wont jump around like a bunny rabbit, but it will jump up to 6 in. straight up to try and get whatevers on top of it. Like I said, it freaked me out the first time :eek: but I sware they can do it.
P.S. Nice pic. :laugh: ... waight a minute, are you makeing fun of me? :confused: :sad: Meanie! :joke:
 
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P.S. Nice pic. :laugh: ... waight a minute, are you makeing fun of me? :confused: :sad: Meanie! :joke:
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Nah, I just had this image of a snapping turtle pouncing on someone like a panther (THAT would be scary LMAO). What a great idea for a B movie:

Dorky looking scientist: "We genetically engineered frog genes into snapping turtles in order to research the medical benefits, but now they've escaped the compound."

<cut scene to swamp a beautiful snowy egret is winging across the marsh when BAM it suddenly bleats and is torn from the air by an unseen force, a member of the "turtle recovery team" looks up nervously at the sound>

Guy in fatigues: "What was that?"

Indian guide: "They say the wendigos haunt these woods."

Ice Cube: "Wendigos my @$$, let's bust a cap on this freak!"
 
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