r/snappingturtles

I nearly died.

Gar was hanging out with my housemate and I while one of my best friends was over visiting, and he was being such a companionable little dude - and tonight for the first time, he did the butt scratch dance!

People think im crazy , even the guy talkin in the video , cause i tell em how smart Puff is and how we communicate with each other.

These guys live in a fairly shallow pond, and always come right up when anybody goes near the pond

Had some dog treats, so i threw em in, and the snappers seemed to like em.

My uncle gave me this little snapper that was terrorizing his goldfish, he never told me how he got it but it had a nasty hole on its back. image 4 is when he gave it to me, image 5 is after an iodine cleaning, from there i just coated it in neosporin (the generic additive free one) that i washed off and changed daily. first picture is how he looks today after 4 months. second and third pictures are just showing his chunkyness. i dont have my drivers license and couldn’t convince anyone to drive me to a rehab center since the nearest one is about an hour away. i think he healed up pretty good so far though. he absolutely destroys crayfish and in a few weeks i should be upgrading him from his 20 gallon to a 150 gallon stock tank. Please let me know if you have any recommendations or questions.

He's massive idk why. His shell was like that fresh from the egg. He's going to be upgraded to a 100 gallon tank sooooonnnnn.

So this evening between 6:30 or 7 was driving around town after the gym and saw a bunch of people stopping there cars on a four way road. I ended up seeing the snapping turtle crossing the road some people were worried about it getting hit by a car. The snapping turtle was trying to get to a pond but it's fenced off. So I decided to lift the snapping turtle from the back near its legs was a little weird about getting bite. Got em over the fence and set him down. Immediately went to the pond was cool seeing him move through bushes.

Taken just before we left, the other day. Stumpp did so well with all the people and the kids who had a million questions. She got home to some freshly cleaned water and a big meal.

Proud of my snappy ambassador, and proud of all the kids who were so well behaved.

It is gasping every few minutes with very few movements.

Not sure if alive or reflexes. Not sign of wounds or trauma.

I have it in the shade.

Gar is getting so long, wide, thick bodied, and strong, (I wear a women's US size 7 shoe, that's my foot for scale in the second photo,) but he's still every bit the gentle yet stubborn baby he's been since day one. That being said, he loves his outdoor time, demands being lifted and taken out, loves being held... But those claws, y'all. My hand is always getting scratched and poked inadvertently by his talons, and I'm not sure what the best solution is for either wearing them down, trimming them (kinda hesitant to do that because I'm not sure how he'd feel about that since, y'know, snapping turtle,) or what? Any suggestions?