On 07/25/2011 12:53 PM, Dawn Moneyhan wrote:
> There is a lake off the Mississippi River that I would love to swim in, water not nearly as clear as the lake you were at... but the thing that keeps me out of the water are the large snapping turtles that will literally attack. A couple of summers ago we had to fight with a snapper who's head was bigger than my hand, he kept stealing the fish out of our basket, even tried to climb into the boat a few times.
I grew up along the Ohio river and I never saw that. He must have been
really hungry :-).
We did have one as a pet. He'd lay his head all the way back on his
shell with his neck stretched out for us to scratch it. I'm not sure if
it was me or my friend who was foolhardy enough to try it the first
time. Unfortunately, he ate all the goldfish in the pond at my friends
place and his mother had turtle soup for dinner that night :-).
Larry B
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It's turtles, all the way down!
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