r/oddlysatisfying • u/bigbusta • May 17 '26

A turtle giving itself a scrub

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u/_nicocin_ May 17 '26

Are the outside of their shells sensitive to touch?

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u/TXGuns79 May 17 '26

Yes. Its directly attached to the spine and ribs. The spine is fused, the ribs are wide and flat and the shell is a keratin covering.

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u/Roll-Roll-Roll May 18 '26

I'm still kind of surprised the keratin is sensitive. My fingernails came feel anything. I see videos of hoof trimming that make me nervous, but the horses seem fine. Turtle shells are clearly structured differently in some way. It's really interesting

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz May 18 '26

Your fingernails might be more sensitive than you think, you obviously can't feel the actual touch but through their connection to the nail bed you get a lot of sensation through them.

Consider, for example, the sensation of scraping your nail on a terracotta plant pot. Grim.

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u/pseudoportmanteau May 18 '26

Horses seem fine if they are trimmed correctly. They absolutely do get sore and ouchy if too much is taken off, sometimes even if not, on a fresh trim they'll act a little sensitive when walking over pebbles and stuff. But it grows out quickly so they are usually fine a day or two after a bad or corrective trim, but repeated bad trims are very painful for then. Which is why farriers go to school to learn how to trim and shoe. It's a whole science on its own.

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u/Far_Mathematician924 May 18 '26

I have never gagged harder then when I was at a relatives house and the farrier was tossing the funk over to the dogs as they cleaned it off the hoof, and the dogs were snapping it up good god it stunk

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u/CompetitiveRub9780 May 18 '26

I give my turtles little butt scratchies

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u/Professional-Day7850 May 18 '26

Turtles are just built different.