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That box turtle looks like its been

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Posted by: mayday at Mon Apr 3 21:37:39 2006  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mayday ]  
   

through a war! Nice rescue.

I love to see animals that were surely goners but then got saved somehow.

I found a hatchling striped mud turtle several years ago that was being eaten alive by fire ants. They were all over it's umbilical sac and eyes when I found it staggering across a highway. We washed off the ants in a nearby canal and then brought it home. It was covered in horrible welts and the eyes were really swollen shut. After a couple of weeks the eyes were better and the little thing was pretty much OK. After a month it was perfect again.

A friend still has him.

The box turtle looks like a typical female.


   

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