I have a habit of stopping to escort animals out of the road. It usually does not matter what animal it is. Snakes, frogs, turtles (even snapping turtles) possums...
Well I found a turtle, and decided since I was close to the refuge I would drive it over there and drop it off.
I plopped it in the passenger seat, assuming it would stay put as most of the other turtles I rescue tend to do and started driving. The 6 to 8 inch long turtle decided it would not stay put and lept off the seat, getting stuck, butt up in the air, between the seat and the door. so without looking over I reached over and pulled it back into the seat, and the turtled launched into the floor board and proceeded to make LAPS around the car.
The turtle zoomed under the seats over the back floor boards up under my seat under my legs over the dividing bump between the driver's seat and the front passenger seat, and back again.
By the time I reached the refuge, I had lost track of the turtle but I could smell a "present" from the little wet racer. I pulled over by a beaver dam and got out and spent ten minutes trying to find it in my relatively clean car. finally I see it, reach for it and it zips away, and I am chasing the turtle around the car.
This is a medium sized turtle, it is not like it can hide easily but it could move under and around the seats and car like a boarder collie on an obstical course. Finally I catch the little devil and it's legs are paddling quickly, it's claws scraping at my hand and it is hissing at me.
I am laughing by now and I carry the squirming struggling little thing over to the water's edge and set it in the grass to give it a choice as to weather it wants to go into the water or not. Instead it sits there and stares at me. I nudge it and tell it it is free to go and it still sits there, no longer having the desire to race around
Well I found a turtle, and decided since I was close to the refuge I would drive it over there and drop it off.
I plopped it in the passenger seat, assuming it would stay put as most of the other turtles I rescue tend to do and started driving. The 6 to 8 inch long turtle decided it would not stay put and lept off the seat, getting stuck, butt up in the air, between the seat and the door. so without looking over I reached over and pulled it back into the seat, and the turtled launched into the floor board and proceeded to make LAPS around the car.
The turtle zoomed under the seats over the back floor boards up under my seat under my legs over the dividing bump between the driver's seat and the front passenger seat, and back again.
By the time I reached the refuge, I had lost track of the turtle but I could smell a "present" from the little wet racer. I pulled over by a beaver dam and got out and spent ten minutes trying to find it in my relatively clean car. finally I see it, reach for it and it zips away, and I am chasing the turtle around the car.
This is a medium sized turtle, it is not like it can hide easily but it could move under and around the seats and car like a boarder collie on an obstical course. Finally I catch the little devil and it's legs are paddling quickly, it's claws scraping at my hand and it is hissing at me.
I am laughing by now and I carry the squirming struggling little thing over to the water's edge and set it in the grass to give it a choice as to weather it wants to go into the water or not. Instead it sits there and stares at me. I nudge it and tell it it is free to go and it still sits there, no longer having the desire to race around
