Saved me a turtle today

[tortdad]

My wife called me to say she almost ran over a turtle in front of our house. I happened to be right around the corner so I came and got it. Normally you should just help it across the road and be on your way but in my neighborhood there's no good reason for a turtle to be this far down the neighborhood unless some kids took it from the park an released it near me. Our community has a park and a walking trail that goes around a big pond filled filled with turtles. This guy had dry mud all over him and you could tell he was stressed walking on hot blacktop so I took him back to the pond where I know he came from.

He didn't move until I backed up about 6' and he made a real quick B-line for the water.


0.0.1 Redfoot (Spike)
0.0.1 Cherryhead Redfoot (Bruce Wayne)
1.0 Sulcata (Hal Jordan)

 

[lismar79]

Good save

 

[lynnedit]

Well done!

 

[Maro2Bear]

Nice going!

 

[tortdad]

My son named him Leonardo and that "it's a perfect name dad" then he told me how the turtle hated me


0.0.1 Redfoot (Spike)
0.0.1 Cherryhead Redfoot (Bruce Wayne)
1.0 Sulcata (Hal Jordan)

 

[wellington]

Haha, kids are so funny. Nice save. That turtle will love you forever. Well, that's if he knew what you had done for him

 

[Jabuticaba]

Good job!!


May, Aussies, & Hermannis
IG: @AUSSOMEAUSSIES

 

[kathyth]

Excellent save!

 

[tortdad]

My wife had to take Noah by the park today so he could go see if his turtle was there. Of course he saw 100 of them and they were all HIS turtle


0.0.1 Redfoot (Spike)
0.0.1 Cherryhead Redfoot (Bruce Wayne)
1.0 Sulcata (Hal Jordan)

 

[bouaboua]

Indeed!!!! Good save.

 

[bouaboua]

Indeed!!!! Good save.

 

[Moozillion]

Good save on everyone's part!!

 

[tryme]

Well done

Coming from london i read this in a real deep south forest gump accent lol

 

[WillTort2]

Make that a John Wayne accent Pilgrim! Texas is almost as much west as it is south.

 

[Tyanna]

Love it! I've done that a few times. It's a reward watching them rush back into the water!

 

[Abdulla6169]

Yay! Glad Leonardo is safe

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

He sure looks like a nice specimen I bet you'll see him cruising around again

 

[tortdad]

He sure looks like a nice specimen I bet you'll see him cruising around again

I saved another one in my backyard last weekend. Same kind of turtle only smaller.



0.0.1 Redfoot (Spike)
0.0.1 Cherryhead Redfoot (Bruce Wayne)
1.0 Sulcata (Hal Jordan)

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

At least you know you have a healthy population there! The first one looked like my RES, expect she's got like, this, FAT head! I think she's bit bigger too... have you seen any other types of turtles around? 'scuse the ignorance, but do painted turtles live around there? They are so cute, I beleive RES and most painted turtles s0pecies are 'colonial' so they must live some where around together... (expect here! )

 

[Moozillion]

Wow! Another great save!