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Baby. Alligator snapper in Ct. WTF! No water near. In a circle of dead rats. Boy is he lucky I found him. He eats. Poos. And is pampered by me. I don’t think he was an abandoned baby pet. He was hatched in Quinnipiac River. CT. He is far from the South. Idk. But. I do know we are lucky to get acquainted with each other. Matter of fact. I have to tend to him now.
 

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How can something so cute grow up to be so ugly? I mean, don't most of us agree that an adult alligator snapper will never win a beauty contest? :D
 
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What are you going to do with it? They are cute small before they can take your finger off.
 

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He was probably carried away and dropped by a bird. Happens all the time.
 
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Baby. Alligator snapper in Ct. WTF! No water near. In a circle of dead rats. Boy is he lucky I found him. He eats. Poos. And is pampered by me. I don’t think he was an abandoned baby pet. He was hatched in Quinnipiac River. CT. He is far from the South. Idk. But. I do know we are lucky to get acquainted with each other. Matter of fact. I have to tend to him now.
How sure are you that turtle isn't a common Snapping Turtle? The pictures aren't clear enough for me to call that turtle an Alligator Snapper.
 

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You found him outside, in Conn, in FEB??>?? Wow!


I think you have a better chance of catching a baby black bear than a Alligator snapper up there but it's very cool that you were there to save him!!

He is Super Snapper, able to take down an entire circle of rats with one stare! LOL


We had a growing population of Alligator snappers here in Cornfield creek, off the Magothy river, just North of the Bag bridge here in the 60's and early 70's. When the community was built, only 20 homes or so, it was "virgin" area...and we caught the turtles while crabbing with chicken necks at the pier. Remember the old big metal trash cans we had? They were so big, they wouldn't hardly fit! Nasty and aggressive, humped serrated shell. It's a wonder none of us ever lost a limb. As the boats took over, they disappeared in only 10 years or so.

Later in life I learned that they weren't "supposed" to live there, like the water moccasins we had...they weren't supposed to live there either.
 

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Baby. Alligator snapper in Ct. WTF! No water near. In a circle of dead rats. Boy is he lucky I found him. He eats. Poos. And is pampered by me. I don’t think he was an abandoned baby pet. He was hatched in Quinnipiac River. CT. He is far from the South. Idk. But. I do know we are lucky to get acquainted with each other. Matter of fact. I have to tend to him now.
Looks like a common snapper
 

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