Richard
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- Knoxville, TN
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- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
A year, perhaps almost two years ago... my neighbors helper brought to our house to show my wife, what turned out to be a baby snapping turtle.
She, in her ever so thoughtful ways, had him put it into our recirculating pond right behind the house. The one that has frogs (no fish) and the one the dogs walk into to cool themselves down....as much as we tell them to get out.
We've been trying to catch the growing turtle to get it out of the pond, so far, with no luck.
Down the field a bit is a dry pond. Never has water until/unless it rains, then it goes to about ankle or ankle "+" deep... and when rain stops, will slowly dry up over a couple days.
This morning, taking two dogs out, Pyrnese in one hand, Border Collie in other, both on leashes, one in each hand. Guess what I see walking across the grass but, Sammy the Snapper. He's inching his way from the baby pond behind the house, to the Luxury Pond in the field (little does he know it dries up pretty quickly!)
Backhoe is right there....if only I could grab his tail, toss him into bucket, I could keep him on ice while I finish taking dogs out but alas, that is not to be the case. Both dogs get VERY interested in this new species they've never seen and I'll just leave it at the excited Border Collie can be a handful and the Pyrnese is easily twice his size so I was busy.
Finished their walk, hurried back to house, put them in their room, got shovel, boots....went back to pond and Sammy the Snapper was gone. He's evidently made it to the water and now I have no idea where he is.
The pond has a flat bottom full of grass that I cut pretty short so there is nothing in there that he can hide under, beside, around....nothing. Right now, his only cover is water.
Left shovel by pond and now I just wait.
My intent is to find him, scoop him up, dump him into backhoe bucket and then drive him down to the "community pond" (the full blown lake from where he originated).
We'll see....
She, in her ever so thoughtful ways, had him put it into our recirculating pond right behind the house. The one that has frogs (no fish) and the one the dogs walk into to cool themselves down....as much as we tell them to get out.
We've been trying to catch the growing turtle to get it out of the pond, so far, with no luck.
Down the field a bit is a dry pond. Never has water until/unless it rains, then it goes to about ankle or ankle "+" deep... and when rain stops, will slowly dry up over a couple days.
This morning, taking two dogs out, Pyrnese in one hand, Border Collie in other, both on leashes, one in each hand. Guess what I see walking across the grass but, Sammy the Snapper. He's inching his way from the baby pond behind the house, to the Luxury Pond in the field (little does he know it dries up pretty quickly!)
Backhoe is right there....if only I could grab his tail, toss him into bucket, I could keep him on ice while I finish taking dogs out but alas, that is not to be the case. Both dogs get VERY interested in this new species they've never seen and I'll just leave it at the excited Border Collie can be a handful and the Pyrnese is easily twice his size so I was busy.
Finished their walk, hurried back to house, put them in their room, got shovel, boots....went back to pond and Sammy the Snapper was gone. He's evidently made it to the water and now I have no idea where he is.
The pond has a flat bottom full of grass that I cut pretty short so there is nothing in there that he can hide under, beside, around....nothing. Right now, his only cover is water.
Left shovel by pond and now I just wait.
My intent is to find him, scoop him up, dump him into backhoe bucket and then drive him down to the "community pond" (the full blown lake from where he originated).
We'll see....
