Poisoned
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- Jun 27, 2014
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I hope this is the right area of the forum, sorry otherwise.
Me and at least one other friend are going to go try to save some snapping turtles, they're in a man-made large pond. The homeowner is going to kill them or have them killed if nobody can get them out, because they want to use the pond for their animals and the turtles are killing/eating them.
One turtle is either being extremely exaggerated about - or is ANCIENT, OR, a Gator Snapping turtle and not just a common snapping turtle like the rest. Either way, unless they are seriously exaggerating, he has a head the size of a dinner plate.
I have a few plans here to remove them, at least the smaller ones.. I don't even know how deep this pond is. It's a 80 mile trip there so I really can't go once to just check it out.
I'm planning to bait a lot of jugs and use them as bobber, tying hunks of meat to the other ends so I can see where a turtle is that has some.
Then, just wading (hopefully the entire pond is wade-able) while feeling with a probe for turtles and going from there, I have a single large net that'll work for fairly large common snappers.
If these turtles can be coaxed with food, another thing I'd like to try it luring them over a net I can pull up.
Any advice is very appreciated, I've never done this before but I don't want them killed for being turtles.
Me and at least one other friend are going to go try to save some snapping turtles, they're in a man-made large pond. The homeowner is going to kill them or have them killed if nobody can get them out, because they want to use the pond for their animals and the turtles are killing/eating them.
One turtle is either being extremely exaggerated about - or is ANCIENT, OR, a Gator Snapping turtle and not just a common snapping turtle like the rest. Either way, unless they are seriously exaggerating, he has a head the size of a dinner plate.
I have a few plans here to remove them, at least the smaller ones.. I don't even know how deep this pond is. It's a 80 mile trip there so I really can't go once to just check it out.
I'm planning to bait a lot of jugs and use them as bobber, tying hunks of meat to the other ends so I can see where a turtle is that has some.
Then, just wading (hopefully the entire pond is wade-able) while feeling with a probe for turtles and going from there, I have a single large net that'll work for fairly large common snappers.
If these turtles can be coaxed with food, another thing I'd like to try it luring them over a net I can pull up.
Any advice is very appreciated, I've never done this before but I don't want them killed for being turtles.