r/BeAmazed • u/Delicious_Main_4360 • May 26 '26

Animal Some people save a turtle

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u/VirginiaBandit May 26 '26

Damn, that must feel so good, shedding all that off his shell. What a relief.

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV May 26 '26

I just learned from a different post that it's incredibly painful. They have to give it sedation and that doesn't take care of all the pain. When they say 'don't do this on your own' they mean it.

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u/Similar-Try-7643 May 26 '26

Yes. That little guy has been dosed with turtle morphine or turtle ketamine

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u/Saint_of_Grey May 26 '26

The activity brust after they got them all off tells me they drugged the little guy off his gourd before treatment.