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Anonymous
Hello /an/, tonight I let my dogs out to go to the bathroom and one of them found a rather big painted turtle in my backyard.

Which is.. completely strange, considering my entire yard is fenced off. The nearest large water source is atleast a few blocks away too :| How a turtle walked that far, crossed the street multiple times, and managed to jump/dig under my 4ft. fence is just beyond me.

Anyways, i'm keeping it until the morning and i'm going to drive it to a nearby pond thing outside a nature center. The turtle is under a laundry basket(large one) with a shallow dish of water in it for him.

Will that be enough for the turtle until the morning? Should I keep it outside or bring it in?
>> Anonymous
I would stick him in something deep enough to submerge in just to get a drink and wet the skin if he's not already wet but he should be fine overnight in the laundry basket, just put something heavy on top to keep him in/keep him from leaving and taking your basket with him
>> Anonymous
maybe the turtle is a pet from someone around your hose.
>> Anonymous
yea should be fine. Bring it inside, last thing u need is some lucky raccoon to find him.

Oddly enough, I found a turtle today too and I'm at least 8 blocks from any water. But it was a snapper and was severely overfed. So I'm certain it was somones pet. I'm deciding whether or not to keep it. I've wanted one but this might be a bad time for me.
>> Anonymous
>>260143
even wild snappers tend to be fattys, it's a normal time for females to be far from water looking for a good nesting site, being full of eggs might also make it look like a fatty. let it continue on it's way . Snappers get big so they need a bigbig tank and got filtration, and if it is a gravid female taking it in where it cant find a suitable place to lays it's eggs means she probably wont lay them, become egg bound, die..all that good stuff
>> Anonymous
>>260145
its not gravid. All the fat is on the front two legs which hang horrendously past the shell.

What you say is true though. Cept for the big part...which i guess could vary depending upon your definition of big. Alligator snapping turtles get big. Common Snappers dont.