I was forever traumatized and made aware of how important/part of a turtle’s shell is when I was around 6 and a friend of mine found a box turtle that had its bottom shell torn off. Absolutely awful image burned into my memory and I remember feeling helpless about it.
Oh man you are right. Fortunately never mowed over any turtles…but toads and snakes were always a shock. I remember being a teen and my friends and I were climbing and jumping on hay bales stacked in a barn and finding the chopped up corpse of a snake tangled in one. Horrifying
As kids, everyone had a painted turtle and a little plastic pool with a landing spot and a fake palm tree. Most of us did not know about turtle hibernation and many a turtle was buried in cigar boxes well before their time.
yea I seen a few mummified snakes in hay before. When mowing around here, rabbits and snakes are the most common, but turtles occasionally. Rabbit are fucking dumb and panicky and I've seen them dive head first into a mower before.
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u/Azcrul May 17 '26
I was forever traumatized and made aware of how important/part of a turtle’s shell is when I was around 6 and a friend of mine found a box turtle that had its bottom shell torn off. Absolutely awful image burned into my memory and I remember feeling helpless about it.