Shell disease identification

[Turtleenough]

Can someone help identify? This is a friend who lives in the Midwest it wandered into her property and wandered away but wanted to identify what it has in case it comes back and she can capture thanks

 

[Yvonne G]

It might be old chewed on marks.

 

[Maggie3fan]

Can someone help identify? This is a friend who lives in the Midwest it wandered into her property and wandered away but wanted to identify what it has in case it comes back and she can capture thanks

Don't try an capture that turtle...He can snap your hand right off...he's a wild animal, and if he's a pest call Dept of Fish and Game to come and get him...but if you, or your friend are not way experienced..don't mess with this old turtle...he's lived a long time it looks, and made it through and he's dangerous

 

[zovick]

Can someone help identify? This is a friend who lives in the Midwest it wandered into her property and wandered away but wanted to identify what it has in case it comes back and she can capture thanks

That is a full grown female Snapping Turtle that is probably looking for a place to lay her eggs (or had just recently finished laying them). They are not friendly, so warn your friend not to get too close to the head. The neck can extend as far out as the shell is long, so care is needed to catch/move them without getting bitten.

 

[RandyTortoise]

Don't try an capture that turtle...He can snap your hand right off...he's a wild animal, and if he's a pest call Dept of Fish and Game to come and get him...but if you, or your friend are not way experienced..don't mess with this old turtle...he's lived a long time it looks, and made it through and he's dangerous

Here in the Chicago burbs, every year we run across four or five of these big snapping turtles that have left their ponds and wandered on to the street. I keep leather gloves in my car so I can pick them up, get them off the road way and get them back to their ponds or if they wandered too far and I don’t know where it came from, I put them I. The pond in my backyard. Yeah, these babies bite and can take off a finger!

 

[RandyTortoise]

Can someone help identify? This is a friend who lives in the Midwest it wandered into her property and wandered away but wanted to identify what it has in case it comes back and she can capture thanks

He could also just be very very old and those are battle scars and he is just beat to hell.