On my way to buy Harry Potter I found a turtle with its shell smashed. I wish I could have done more to help it. It was in so much pain and had little hope of recovering. Plus I have no idea how I could have fixed the shell. It looked horrible. All I could do was to carry it to the lake so it could at least look at it before... Perhaps I should have taken it out of its misery or something, but I don't know how I could bring myself to do something like that. Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Wrap tape around it!
Or take it to a vet. If the vet were a real professional he or she would help the poor animal instead of letting it die.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I thought of tape... I had no duct tape or anything to fix its shell. Really, it must have been one of the most horrible things I've seen.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Have you searched for anything on the internet?
Posted by Chungwa (Member # 6421) on :
It must have been unpleasant, for you as well as the turtle (that wasn't intended to come off as rude - when I'm awake this late I'm not positive that my brain is actually in the same room as me).
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I remember when I was very, very young my parents accidentally ran over a pregnant turtle. Eggs everywhere.
It was a sad, sad, day. Posted by Chungwa (Member # 6421) on :
A few months ago I hit a possum (or is it an opossum?). Those are darn ugly animals - but I still felt very sad. I saw the ugly guy in front of my car and I thought 'if I swerve to the left he'll just run into me, I'll trust him to move.' Well.
Funny that I felt a little sorry for myself after killing him.
I'm calling him him because I'm somewhat sexist and would rather kill a male than a female.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I should have bought it home, but, I can't really do that because I have a rabbit. I read somewhere that turtles, or heard somewhere that many reptiles carry botalism... (sp) Still, i keep thiking about him and his poor broken body Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
{{{Synesthesia}}}
Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
This is such a depressing thread. Posted by stacey (Member # 3661) on :
Possums are a huge pest in NZ, most of us swerve to hit the possum not to miss it. Heh
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
(They are opossums, different species.)
That's very sad about the turtle, though. I'm sorry. Posted by Sid Meier (Member # 6965) on :
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
Oh my, I know how you feel. It is just so... the smashed shell... well, about three weeks ago I also found a turtle like that, only he was already dead.
I found him at about ten at night. I was running around our yard with a flashlight looking for him. I thought he had just escaped from his pen.
I should explain that he was our turtle and we had had him for fifteen years. During the school year he lived in my husband's science classroom, but during the summers, he lived in a pen outdoors. I went to give him food and noticed that there was a hole in the mesh of the pen. I thought that maybe he broke out himself, but it seems that something broke in and got him. We think that something was trying to eat him, like a raccoon or a hawk. Or maybe he broke out, got hit by a car, and crawled back into the yard.
And now he's dead. I kind of wish I had not found the body, so I could think that he had simply escaped to go live in the woods or something.
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