Post #346,437
8/19/11 2:50:50 PM
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snapper hunting? Easy peasey
hold out stick, snapper clamps on. Pull a little then swipe off head with sharp knife, put into collection sack for making soup later (body, not head)
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Post #346,438
8/19/11 2:51:27 PM
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What if you want them alive?
I'm assuming there are people who sometimes do want them alive.
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Drew
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Post #346,439
8/19/11 3:08:20 PM
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Can't imagine why
and I did grow up in snapper country (though never witnessed anything this stupid)
And the broomstick comment..thats a normal size...big ones would take more than one finger at a time...and they aren't (contrary to turtle lore) slow about doing it.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #346,441
8/19/11 3:11:38 PM
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Tortoises are slow, turtles are fast.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
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Post #346,443
8/19/11 3:17:17 PM
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dont cut off the head, they will hang on stick for long time
make lousy pets tho
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Post #346,475
8/20/11 6:58:04 AM
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I had one
It lived under the bush in front of my driveway.
Got it as a baby. Bit me once or twice when I was feeding it, simply because it missed the food, but other than that, nope.
Note: I do NOT assign human (or even my perspective of mammalian) emotions to reptiles, I'm not pretending it even liked me. But I did not need to worry about it biting me on purpose.
My daughter got a baby turtle and a 50 gallon tank a few years ago. This thing would swim around the tank, following the movements of her hand, and wanted to be handled, even when it was not hungry. It got pretty big. She gave it away. I don't recall it ever biting her.
On the other hand, remember the stories of her killer hamster that would jump across the cage and sink his teeth into us every chance it got?
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Post #346,480
8/20/11 8:54:46 AM
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That wouldn't have been a real snapper
One, you still have fingers and two, it's a water turtle.
We have yertle here...a gopher tortoise that lives out back about 18 inches nose to tail
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
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Post #346,504
8/20/11 4:14:10 PM
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Her's was a water turtle
And I do not know what it was.And yes, I KNOW snappers are going to instinctually snap.
Mine lived under a bush.
I don't claim mine was a snapper. But it was a reptile, it was an omnivore, and it connected me as a harmless food source to be tolerated.
I'm just pointing out that pet or not, you don't need to kill things for fun, at least I don't, and people who do like to kill things for fun are probably fucked up in the head, and not just in the apparent area.
And organized events that kill things for fun that you bring your kids to take it to the next level. Grooming the next generation of serial killers is not something that I support, and raises to the level of something I'd actively oppose.
Except at that point I'd be publicly opposing the actions of a group of people that probably have a decent selection of serial killers in it, so I'd most likely just keep my mouth shut.
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Post #346,444
8/19/11 3:21:04 PM
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When I was a kid there was a technique
We caught them by sneaking up on them in the water and grabbing them more than half way back on their shell. It wasn't easy. Their head can come back around about half their body width and they have powerful jaws. I never got a big one. Some of the adults got a big one and I saw it cooked alive. I quit catching them. They don't make good pets and my sense of humor never ran that way.
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