Huge Snapping Turtle at my local wildlife center
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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!)
So instead of chasing ambulances you hang out at fish stores? My kinda lawyer.
Q
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
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
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.
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.
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.
Some pics of him.
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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!
