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On 07 Nov 2004 01:50:31 GMT, Fx199 wrote:
From: Neil Cherry On 06 Nov 2004 17:35:40 GMT, Fx199 wrote: From: mmm (Mike Kruger) but can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very slowly making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite goner. Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites the tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he ****es all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the ******* and start walking home." I just slide turtles off the side of the road with my foot....Duh I wouldn't recommend that with a big snapper. They can inflict some major damage! By the way you don't want to handle turtles, they are salmonella carriers. That's a good point! I feel good about rescuing turtles. I scoot them across with my foot at the tail end. Usually they will tuck in and glare at you, and let you scoot them across. Snappers of course posture and hiss more than the other kinds. Every snapper I've come across (the live one that is) have immediately snapped at the nearest thing. The ones I've seen have been around 18 - 24 inches in size. Nasty temperament! I guess to get to be that size they have to be able to defend themselves. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only) http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II) http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog |
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On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 16:52:50 -0600, Neil Cherry
wrote: On 07 Nov 2004 01:50:31 GMT, Fx199 wrote: From: Neil Cherry On 06 Nov 2004 17:35:40 GMT, Fx199 wrote: From: mmm (Mike Kruger) but can you top this? On the BikeE when I see ... a big snapper very, very slowly making his way across the road. With all the traffic he's a definite goner. Me, I pull up and try to prod him along with my front wheel, until he bites the tire and gives me a flat! When I very, very carefully pick him up--he ****es all over me. So I pitch him into the next pond as far as I can throw the ******* and start walking home." I just slide turtles off the side of the road with my foot....Duh I wouldn't recommend that with a big snapper. They can inflict some major damage! By the way you don't want to handle turtles, they are salmonella carriers. That's a good point! I feel good about rescuing turtles. I scoot them across with my foot at the tail end. Usually they will tuck in and glare at you, and let you scoot them across. Snappers of course posture and hiss more than the other kinds. Every snapper I've come across (the live one that is) have immediately snapped at the nearest thing. The ones I've seen have been around 18 - 24 inches in size. Nasty temperament! I guess to get to be that size they have to be able to defend themselves. Sometimes the only way to move them is to wave something in front of them onto which they will invariably latch, and then drag them off the road. Michael J. Klein Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC Please replace mousepotato with asiancastings --------------------------------------------- |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:18:39 +0800, Michael J. Klein
wrote: snip Every snapper I've come across (the live one that is) have immediately snapped at the nearest thing. The ones I've seen have been around 18 - 24 inches in size. Nasty temperament! I guess to get to be that size they have to be able to defend themselves. Sometimes the only way to move them is to wave something in front of them onto which they will invariably latch, and then drag them off the road. Michael J. Klein Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC Please replace mousepotato with asiancastings --------------------------------------------- About 20 years ago I was going to Arkansas to visit my dad, on the interstate, 40, and pulled over to stretch my legs. The road was almost paved over with turtle shells, the contents of which were splatted out. Turtle genocide by motor vehicles. I scooted about a dozen off of the road before I resumed driving. I have heard stories about efforts to put "turtle tunnels" under some of the turtle paths. The turtles and even the tarantulas in Texas, Arkansas, etc. all have bad attitudes, not mellow like the California counterparts. Bill Baka |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:33:37 -0800, Bill Baka wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:18:39 +0800, Michael J. Klein wrote: snip Every snapper I've come across (the live one that is) have immediately snapped at the nearest thing. The ones I've seen have been around 18 - 24 inches in size. Nasty temperament! I guess to get to be that size they have to be able to defend themselves. Sometimes the only way to move them is to wave something in front of them onto which they will invariably latch, and then drag them off the road. Michael J. Klein Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC Please replace mousepotato with asiancastings --------------------------------------------- About 20 years ago I was going to Arkansas to visit my dad, on the interstate, 40, and pulled over to stretch my legs. The road was almost paved over with turtle shells, the contents of which were splatted out. Turtle genocide by motor vehicles. I scooted about a dozen off of the road before I resumed driving. I have heard stories about efforts to put "turtle tunnels" under some of the turtle paths. The turtles and even the tarantulas in Texas, Arkansas, etc. all have bad attitudes, not mellow like the California counterparts. Bill Baka Bill, I was on an island in the middle of a crab migration. Thousands were hit by cars, but apparently the crabs like to point their claws upwards when the car is about to strike, resulting in a few stabbed tires, lol. I wonder how the population would cope if all those individuals remained alive in the above examples... Michael J. Klein Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC Please replace mousepotato with asiancastings --------------------------------------------- |
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