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Any chance he made it all the way to Kansas? This guy was at our gate, teasing the dogs

Probly gonna be ah...slow...return...

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Originally posted by Dean T

Any chance he made it all the way to Kansas? This guy was at our gate, teasing the dogs

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1,000 miles is a long way for a tortoise to travel in just a few days, but if it has a dog tag on its shell and answers to "Peewee", you may have found it.

There is a good sized Box Turtle living by my trash can who pokes his head out when I dump anything as if to say "what's that racket?" but he is not "mine", just a neighbor I greet in the morning. I'm never sure about the turtle/tortise distinction.

Back in the 70's in the UK, so many households had pet tortoises, even the main kids prime time TV show had a tortoise so they could teach us how to get it ready for hibernation every year. Where I lived, you either drilled a hole in its' shell and attached a tether, or painted your house number/name on the shell. it was a fairly common sight to see a kid, tortoise in hand knocking on a neighbours door to return it.

Meandering tortoises appears to be catching on ....

This from Oak Hammock Marsh's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OakHammockMarsh this a.m.:

"TORTOISE you say?!

This past month, several strange reports came in regarding signings of a tortoise tromping about the Marsh. Thanks to the keen eyes of our visitors, we were able to track her down! After some digging, we discovered that we had found Molly the pet African Spurred Tortoise. Molly had been missing for 2 weeks and had somehow managed to travel 20km+ from home!

Canada has no native tortoise species, and while Molly may have passed for a snapping turtle from a distance, she was very out of her element in a wetland ecosystem. African Spurred Tortoises are terrestrial animals native to hot, arid climates like the Saharan Dessert.

After receiving lots of snacks from the Centre staff, Molly was reunited with her family safe and sound, if a little tired. Thank you to everyone that got her there, and thank you to Molly, our honorary Marsh ambassador, for teaching us a little bit about what to expect (and what not to expect) at Oak Hammock Marsh!"

when we use to go frog giggin if we caught a big enough snappin turtle we take it back to grannys and she would cook it up ,,,, pretty good eatin.
but you gotta strip out the mud vein .

You’re bringing back pleasant memories of the turtle aquarium in Bermuda, what a beautiful place