4 years ago I pulled over to the side of the road to help a box turtle that was stuck at the curb and could not get over it. When I pick her up I noticed the bottom of her shell was covered in blood. When I checked her out I could not find were a car had hit her. Then I notice that the blood was coming from a stump on her missing back right leg.

I took her home and put some antibiotic cream on the stump. She spent lots of time soaking her tub I made for her in my back yard. She made a complete recovery and eats more than any of my other turtles. She is always the last to go into hibernation and the fist to come out in the spring.

This year she has been mating with my new male box turtle. On June 30th she laid 6 eggs. I was very surprised at how deep her nest was. The only problem she had was that 3 of the eggs did not fall down the whole she dug. But the others did and she managed to cover them up with just one leg and you could never tell that she made her nest there. I have all 6 eggs in my house and they should hatch in about a month.

I always wonder what happened to her. Were I found her there are lots of houses and I was thinking that maybe she ran into a dog. But is anyone’s guess as to what happened to her.
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Jack

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