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Same neighbor with the water heater turtle brought me this one at 7:30 this morning.
She was hit by car on that same highway where Janie came from, the same highway where the speed limit is 55 but people do 70 & we find so many dead ones.
This little girl got lucky because the neighbor picked her up before another car could smash her. Her plastron is cracked so the vet is taking her at 2:00PM today.
I have no plans to keep her myself but I'll stay updated on her.
She's pretty, they all are.

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PHRatz

I must admit, the world is my race track... but I live where seeing a herp cross the road is like finding the end to the rainbow. Whenever I go south my eyes are so glued to the shoulder in excitement I just don't have the attention to drive anything faster than the speed limit.

Ian

Ian
I know what you mean. LOL
On days like yesterday when the weather is right for box turtles to be out roaming I can't drive too fast, I'm scanning the road all the time looking for that familiar lump sitting somewhere on it.
This particular stretch is our only way into town, and we have to drive about 2 miles to get to there.
I never speed because I drive that road daily, I see too many cops waiting to hand out tickets so I know better but more importantly I see too many turtles on it, usually dead.
So I want to make sure I don't hit any that are alive.

This girl yesterday wasn't hurt too badly but because I could see a fracture I just had to get her to the vet. It wasn't a very bad fracture but it was enough to let infection in. Infection would kill her before the fracture will.

She'll be fine I'm sure & when she's healed maybe she'll be breeding with the boy found trapped between the water heaters.
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PHRatz

Someone called me about her this morning. She's repaired & doing fine. I was very glad to hear that but I still don't want to keep her myself.
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PHRatz

Is it to late to keep her as a release candidate?

Ian

>>Is it to late to keep her as a release candidate?
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>>Ian

I'm sure that's just what the vet will do. She has so much more room than I do, so many acres of land..
She repaired the fracture so my guess is this one will take at least a year to heal so she won't be going anywhere for at least that long.
IF I had my PEN that STILL isn't built (insert cuss words here) lol I would have the room but until it's done I just can't take any more in.
My summer kid's classes start tomorrow, since my DH hasn't had time to build my pen when I get my pay for these kid classes, I'm hiring someone to build it for me.
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PHRatz