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05-12-2015, 10:55 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,626
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The ungrateful turtle!
Yesterday we were on a busy 4-lane road with a grass median when we saw a large turtle trying to cross the road. I've always had a soft spot for turtles crossing the road, so I went to the next crossover, turned around, and went back to help before he got squished! By that time he had gotten into the grass of the median and I had a little trouble finding him. I picked him up, with his head away from me, and started walking him on across the road. Right away I felt something strange, and looked down to see him peeing all over my pants! I had a few choice words for him, but I took him on across the road, down the embankment on the other side, then bid him farewell!
Talk about an ungrateful turtle!!!
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05-12-2015, 11:36 AM
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Registered User
Tiffin Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: North Port, Fl
Posts: 588
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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05-12-2015, 11:54 AM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: E WA or S TX
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Lucky it wasn't a TOAD! You could of had warts in bad places.
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Norm, Donna & Tinker Kat(RIP) 01 Z3
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05-12-2015, 11:59 AM
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Senior Member
Tiffin Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Home in warm Sou Calif for the winter.
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Joe, doing what you did was really nice of you and shows what a good person your are, but causing the turtle to void itself...also will cause it to be dehydrated and possibly cause serious consequences to it.
Of course if you had left it alone, it most definitely could have become road kill....so maybe the dehydration is the better choice.
In any case, you've learned a valuable lesson...one that we desert rats learn at a very young age.
Ron
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05-12-2015, 12:01 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Panama City, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MSHappyCampers
Talk about an ungrateful turtle!!!
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He'd probably just spent the last 2 hours crossing the road and you took him back to the other side again.
I'd have been P*****d as well
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2020 Forest River Sabre 38RDP.
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05-12-2015, 02:48 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 7,406
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05-13-2015, 12:10 PM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club Pond Piggies Club Appalachian Campers Mid Atlantic Campers
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Sarver, PA/Crystal River, FL/Shelocta, PA
Posts: 4,671
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They always do that!
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05-13-2015, 12:22 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: May 2012
Location: DFW, Tex-US
Posts: 6,196
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It's rained SO hard here the last month, that things are coming out of the woods....
Do NOT pick up this type that was in my front yard the other day:
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05-13-2015, 12:34 PM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom N
They always do that!
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Yep!
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Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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05-17-2015, 05:09 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Arkansas
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Thats funny Joe... Glad you helped a critter though.... Turtles need to be relocated going the same way they were,,, or they'll turn around... Friday night (actually Sat morning) I braked the big truck for a fox on the interstate and a dog in town....
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05-18-2015, 07:42 AM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by monkey
Thats funny Joe... Glad you helped a critter though.... Turtles need to be relocated going the same way they were,,, or they'll turn around... Friday night (actually Sat morning) I braked the big truck for a fox on the interstate and a dog in town....
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Yep, I kept him going the same way!
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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05-19-2015, 10:37 PM
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Senior Member
Vintage RV Owners Club
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Kansas
Posts: 4,549
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnBoyToo
It's rained SO hard here the last month, that things are coming out of the woods....
Do NOT pick up this type that was in my front yard the other day:
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You can pick up this kind by the back end of the shell....if they are too big...get a big stic k and get it to snap onto it and pull it in the original direction they were headed...
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05-20-2015, 12:18 PM
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Senior Member/RVM #90
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Columbus, MS
Posts: 54,626
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MartySQ
You can pick up this kind by the back end of the shell....if they are too big...get a big stic k and get it to snap onto it and pull it in the original direction they were headed...
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If I picked him up like that he'd pee in my face!
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Joe & Annette
Sometimes I sits and thinks, sometimes I just sits.....
2002 Monaco Windsor 40PBT, 2013 Honda CRV AWD
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05-20-2015, 02:26 PM
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Senior Member
Newmar Owners Club Spartan Chassis
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Central Florida..
Posts: 238
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Here in Florida the tortoises are protected... But almost daily I have to remove them from my driveway.. Not unusual to look out my window and see 4-5 grazing in the back yard....I to stop and move them out of harms way.. If you keep them straight and head towards you they usually don't Pee..and if they do the barrels pointed the other way..lol
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