In August, this snapper slugged up onto my yard in the 100 degree heat, and only after a dousing with the garden hose, and help from a spade, did the beast with the 13 inch diameter shell get coaxed back into the water. You can see his size relative to the shadow of the garden spade.
2 comments:
Wow he looks like a real killer. Could've made a beautiful soup outta him. Nice pic.
He tried to snap the handle off the shovel. Powerful. Flipped him over, and he used that muscular neck to flip himself back in a flash. Fairly dumb, though. 100 degrees, and he waddled over 25 yards up onto my backyard before becoming delirious, and had I not drenched him with the hose, I'd have been moving a 25 lb. wad of dead, stinking flesh with that shovel later that afternoon.
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