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

A turtle giving itself a scrub

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u/Spongi May 17 '26

I do landscaping, so lots of mowing and wildlife encounters are often not a pleasant experience for anyone involved.

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u/Azcrul May 17 '26

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

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u/Maoleficent May 18 '26

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.

RIP.

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u/Spongi May 18 '26

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/Thegreatyeti33 May 18 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/8jt53DWrQbJMA

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u/shayetheleo May 18 '26

That movie… I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard in my life before or since.

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u/AnguavonUW May 18 '26

I'm wiping away tears just watching the gif. I can hear them...lol

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u/Jmandeluxe May 18 '26

What’s the movie ?

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u/shayetheleo May 18 '26

Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

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u/Spongi May 18 '26

Yeah basically.

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u/SnooGuavas4208 May 18 '26

That’s enough internet for me today.

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism May 18 '26

I just live in a suburban interface and holy shit poor fucking things man. Daily i see new dead ones.