first thing I'd probably do is get a stick, hold down its head and pick it up. but I dont have a 4 year degree so I can do that. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Will my pocket do?Originally posted by Yig:
All you have to do is get a branch, put it on his head, and grab him behind the neck. Have something to put him in.
True story:
When I first started here, one of the other drafters who was deaf was one of the first to introduce himself. I came to find out he was also a heavy pot smoker, and more than a little burnt out. Anyway, one day we were returning from lunch through the vestibule out back, and there was a large brown moth (one of those with "eyes" on its wings) newly emerged from its coccoon and its wings were still pretty shriveled up. He had apparently never seen anything like that and wanted to look at it closely. I told him what it was doing, and he got in to look at the wings for a few minutes (at that stage they literally grow before your eyes). With his face really close to it, I mouthed, "careful, it's a flesh-eater." He jumped up in a panic and flailed about with a muted scream, and then he saw me laughing, but he still wasn't sure about the bug. So I reached over and coerced it into my palm, and then he really started freaking out seeing that its girth nearly covered my hand. I convinced him that it was harmless, but I couldn't resist when he leaned in to look at it again I winced and made like it was devouring my hand. He didn't speak to me for some time after that.
first thing I'd probably do is get a stick, hold down its head and pick it up. but I dont have a 4 year degree so I can do that. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
LOL [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I remember one day, a few years ago, I heard our dogs in the front yard barking insanely. It was the kind of barking they do when they've found something, so I went outside to check on them, and discovered a snapping turtle the size of a large dinner plate in the yard. It must have been at least 20 pounds (those things can get up to 100 pounds). They had it cornered against the house and were going nuts trying to bite it. Naturally the snapping turtle was defending itself, though it never managed to actually bite anything.Originally posted by Spore:
Poisonous snakes is only dangerous if ya gits bit... I like to poke dangerous animals... snappin' turtles is fun to poke too...
I rolled a trash can up beside it and flipped it in with a shovel, cause a snapper that big is friggin dangerous, especially to the dumbass dogs who were hell bent on attacking the damned thing.
My dad ended up taking the trash can contained turtle to the creek down the road and tipping it into the water.
I love snapping turtles. You can pick them up by thier tails or if they weigh too much you can wedge your hand directly above thier heads gripping the front of their shell and you will be safe from getting bit.
A trick with alligator snappers is to rub a stick on the top back of their skull and they will stop flailing about trying to bite you and just remain stationary with their mouths open and hissing.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I used to have an alligator snapper as a pet when I was a kid. It was just a baby though. It would hiss and snap at everyone but me. I ended up letting it go, because no matter how often I cleaned its tank and changed its water, the thing stank like a swamp.Originally posted by Yig:
I love snapping turtles. You can pick them up by thier tails or if they weigh too much you can wedge your hand directly above thier heads gripping the front of their shell and you will be safe from getting bit.
A trick with alligator snappers is to rub a stick on the top back of their skull and they will stop flailing about trying to bite you and just remain stationary with their mouths open and hissing.
I currently have a false map turtle that had a run-in with a snapper when he was a baby..lost one of his hind legs to it. He gets around pretty well though.
I dunno about you all, but if I had a golf club, I'd so some snake huntin!
I love map turtles too Tort.
I once had a baby snapper in a tank with some grown turtles when I was around 12-13. The water was muddy and they must have nipped at him and went a little crazy, I found him with the entire lower half of his body missing with his entrails hanging out. He was still alive and wildly snapping.
I paniced. All I could do was grab a hammer, take him onto the concrete porch, and end his misery in one swift blow. I had tears in my eyes. [img]biggrin.gif[/img] It was a kodak moment.
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tears of INSANE CHILD BLOODLUST! [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That sucks. When the snapper had my current turtle, I whacked the thing with a shovel until it let go. It didn't hurt the snapping turtle, but it did stun it enough to allow me to grab poor Mario and hustle him to safety. That was when I learned that it's a bad idea to set free a baby turtle into a pond that contains other turtles much bigger and meaner than it...they become lunch. Lucky for Mario that the snapper only got his hind leg, and not his neck as well.Originally posted by Yig:
I love map turtles too Tort.
I once had a baby snapper in a tank with some grown turtles when I was around 12-13. The water was muddy and they must have nipped at him and went a little crazy, I found him with the entire lower half of his body missing with his entrails hanging out. He was still alive and wildly snapping.
I paniced. All I could do was grab a hammer, take him onto the concrete porch, and end his misery in one swift blow. I had tears in my eyes. [img]biggrin.gif[/img] It was a kodak moment.
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When we still lived in florida, there was a massive old tortoise that would come into the back yard every day because my mother would give it bits of banana and plums. It would take the food right out of your hand. I always wondered what happened to it after we moved..if it still kept showing up for its fruit every day.
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