NWR: cant believe i forgot to post this, we saved a turtle!
saturday we're going to the deer park outlets and on the way FH says 'hey is that guy stopped in front of a turtle?' my BF/MOH is going to school to be a zoo keeper so of course she yells 'turn around lets see'. so i turn around, and we park and get out to see what this group of people are looking at. then we see this huge turtle just sitting on the street, dry as can be just laying there. we call the animal hospital, because of course MOH has it on speed dial, and they tell us we can bring it there. someone from the group thats now formed picks it up by its tail and flings it on the grass, then it starts snapping! Of course everyone in the group is insisting someone do something, but no one wants to put it in their car, of course darling MOH volunteers my car.
FH and another guy go up to the building we're out side of as we're near the industrial park more than the outlets, and they tell the woman who is talking on her phone in a security shirt that they need to take the bucket thats filled with sand and cigg butts to use for the turtle. she barely speaks english and just goes ok ok. so we get the huge turtle in the now empty rinsed out bucket and now MOH is holding the bucket sideways using a paper box lid to keep the turtle in. We situate her in my car and just as we're leaving the security lady walks up taps on my window and goes 'oh, no, give bucket' we explain we need it and that we'll return it, she says no a few more times, then she stares at my license plate and starts dialing. Is she calling the cops? her boss? we have no idea, we dont care.
we drive from the outlets all the way to the animal hospital in commack, only to have the receptionist tell us 'we'll check him out if he's ok you can take him back and let him out in the woods' b!tch, i'm not taking this thing back! at this point FH says lets just drop and ditch the turtle, but MOH now wants to know everything she can about it. so we stay and the vet techs take the bucket and let the turtle out. i guess they thought we had like a pet sized turtle? yea, no this thing was huge! they call the guy next door who owns the pet den and he comes in to take a look. turns out it was a 25 lb 25-27 year old male snapping turtle we rescued. one of the techs was going to take him and release him later that night. in the end, i named him Sasper the Sassy Snappin' Turtle.![]()
*edited because i suck at spelling lol
FH and another guy go up to the building we're out side of as we're near the industrial park more than the outlets, and they tell the woman who is talking on her phone in a security shirt that they need to take the bucket thats filled with sand and cigg butts to use for the turtle. she barely speaks english and just goes ok ok. so we get the huge turtle in the now empty rinsed out bucket and now MOH is holding the bucket sideways using a paper box lid to keep the turtle in. We situate her in my car and just as we're leaving the security lady walks up taps on my window and goes 'oh, no, give bucket' we explain we need it and that we'll return it, she says no a few more times, then she stares at my license plate and starts dialing. Is she calling the cops? her boss? we have no idea, we dont care.
we drive from the outlets all the way to the animal hospital in commack, only to have the receptionist tell us 'we'll check him out if he's ok you can take him back and let him out in the woods' b!tch, i'm not taking this thing back! at this point FH says lets just drop and ditch the turtle, but MOH now wants to know everything she can about it. so we stay and the vet techs take the bucket and let the turtle out. i guess they thought we had like a pet sized turtle? yea, no this thing was huge! they call the guy next door who owns the pet den and he comes in to take a look. turns out it was a 25 lb 25-27 year old male snapping turtle we rescued. one of the techs was going to take him and release him later that night. in the end, i named him Sasper the Sassy Snappin' Turtle.
*edited because i suck at spelling lol
