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Snapping Turtle Rescued on North Stratford Road4/23/06
Saturday afternoon Pattie Kraus called me to say, "Help! I'm being attacked by a turtle down the street!" She was driving South on North Stratford on her way home. It was pretty funny because last spring I had "rescued" her from a slightly smaller Snapper in front of her house. I think they have some pictures of that event too. This turtle was in front of Scott Casey's house (just demolished and now being rebuilt) just North of Old Ivy. It seemed even weirder because I found the Chicken Turtle a few houses North the day before. It gets funnier. Friday afternoon, I took the Chicken Turtle (the other picture) back South to the detention pond, for relocation, stopping to let Hunter Hess know I was going to cut through his yard to do so. 24 hours later, when I rang his doorbell, he asked, "Got another turtle?" I put both turtles in the creek behind Hunter's house, just upstream from the detention pond. I trust both are happy in their new neighborhoods. Both were females, and unharmed. The Chicken Turtle had an old and significant wound to her carapace, but time had healed it well. The Snapping Turtle was, true to form, snapping at any and everything. No humans were harmed in the filming of this story. My agent says it's OK to publish, but make sure Pattie gets credit for the discovery. Best to you, Arthur Roberts
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