Wildlife

Two different fawns that I saw this past week. Already oblivious to my dogs and dogs oblivious to them. I’ve seen them left by their mom before. The one on a lawn a few feet from the road surprised me. They usually are somewhat concealed and not out in the open. The other one ironically is in a cage that I put up to protect a sapling from the deer.


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Best thing you can use to help the turtles is a shovel. Scoop em up or nudge them in the direction that they are going. If you move them the opposite way that they are going, then they will just turn around and go into the road again. Also don't move them by the tail. That can damage their spine. I stopped to move one near Stephens the other day and a guy that raises turtles stopped to help and dropped some info. It good to see people stop and help these guys from getting run over by oblivious drivers.
 
xc62701 said:
Best thing you can use to help the turtles is a shovel. Scoop em up or nudge them in the direction that they are going. If you move them the opposite way that they are going, then they will just turn around and go into the road again. Also don't move them by the tail. That can damage their spine. I stopped to move one near Stephens the other day and a guy that raises turtles stopped to help and dropped some info. It good to see people stop and help these guys from getting run over by oblivious drivers.
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Your last sentence reminds me of a time a few years ago coming home from Cape May. On Fulling Mill Rd out of the Villas heading towards Rt 47. Big snapper like the 1 in the pic from @ebarker9. I pull over to help nudge it along. Before I can even take a step towards it, a senior couple in a Honda Accord makes no attempt to dodge it or slow down. I get back in our car to continue our drive home. They are oblivious it's wedged under the car and continues to drive the 2miles to Rt 47. Smoke, noise and parts of the turtle are trickling out. Never touched the brakes.
 
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I need to find the reel of the guy picking a big snapper up - it wasn't happy.....
he seemed to know what he was doing tho - as he had all of his fingers when done.
 
JDurk said:
Your last sentence reminds me of a time a few years ago coming home from Cape May. On Fulling Mill Rd out of the Villas heading towards Rt 47. Big snapper like the 1 in the pic from @ebarker9. I pull over to help nudge it along. Before I can even take a step towards it, a senior couple in a Honda Accord makes no attempt to dodge it or slow down. I get back in our car to continue our drive home. They are oblivious it's wedged under the car and continues to drive the 2miles to Rt 47. Smoke, noise and parts of the turtle are trickling out. Never touched the brakes.
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I always wonder how it’s possible for people to hit something that big. How much other stuff do they not see and still hit it? Oh look there’s 100 pound rock. Let me steer my car right at it…
 
Patrick said:
I need to find the reel of the guy picking a big snapper up - it wasn't happy.....
he seemed to know what he was doing tho - as he had all of his fingers when done.
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I think I’ve seen that one. You can handle them like that if it’s a certain type of snapper. I forget which one. But you better know what you’re doing.
 
xc62701 said:
I think I’ve seen that one. You can handle them like that if it’s a certain type of snapper. I forget which one. But you better know what you’re doing.
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The last two that I’ve seen on rides were YUGE and since I like all my fingers I decided I wasn’t taking any risk to try and move them.

If I did have a way to I would have tried to prevent getting hit but I just hoped for the best
 
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