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You don't live next door to Alexandre Burrows do you?
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Wow, this is really weird. Did the turtle respond to the bite at all? You said that he was "chilling", but does that mean like he didn't act as though he was bitten at all?
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12 turtles in the same pond? If that one is aged, no surprise if it got hit by the red-ears while it swam.
or perhaps the shell collided with the rock so conveniently etched into the picture?
pond specs? lololol
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Well a shark bite wouldn't look like that for one xD.
A joke of course. I mean it just looks like it got snapped but...I have no clue how that could happen. Turtle shells being so hard as well. So uh..good look finding out whats up.
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Gang initiation, 2 red eared turtles held him down and a yellow belly did work on him.
lol, in all seriousness I have no idea. Turtles are bad ass though. You might have a problem on your hands by the looks of it haha.
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Are you sure it's a bite? Maybe it's a wound from something else, like a person throwing a rock into the pond.
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Perhaps racoons?
I knew someone with an outdoor pond with fish and racoons regularly raided the pond
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On July 13 2011 07:54 Gnial wrote:
You don't live next door to Alexandre Burrows do you?
Who? Sorry, don't get the reference.
On July 13 2011 07:55 Aeres wrote:
Wow, this is really weird. Did the turtle respond to the bite at all? You said that he was "chilling", but does that mean like he didn't act as though he was bitten at all?
He acts like it's not even there at all. Only noticed it because it's so big.
On July 13 2011 07:55 Taekwon wrote:
12 turtles in the same pond? If that one is aged, no surprise if it got hit by the red-ears while it swam.
or perhaps the shell collided with the rock so conveniently etched into the picture?
pond specs? lololol
The pond is a size of a juccizi. It's fairly small, maybe 8ftx5ft, but the only problems in the past has been from a snapping turtle we had which bit and killed a juvenile(we got rid of him) and other juveniles which had there tails nipped, I assume by the bigger guys. It's actually big enough that the turtles mate and lay eggs. We've actually gotten babies which is why we have a dozen now when we started with 5 or 6.
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well does it look like the product of a bite or a jigsaw?^^
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On July 13 2011 07:57 Sotamursu wrote:
Are you sure it's a bite? Maybe it's a wound from something else, like a person throwing a rock into the pond.
I doubt that was caused by a rock or something being thrown in the pond. These guys jump in the water as soon as anyone walks up even if they've been in there thier whole life. It seems like a bite or some kind of purposful abuse.
On July 13 2011 08:01 JerKy wrote:
Perhaps racoons?
I knew someone with an outdoor pond with fish and racoons regularly raided the pond
There's been raccoon attacks before(one or two) and they didn't make holes like this.
warning: graphic
+ Show Spoiler +Seriously, do you want to know how a raccoon kills a turtle? + Show Spoiler +They eat out both ends and leave the shell. It wasn't a pretty sight.
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What part of the country do you live in?
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On July 13 2011 08:12 Hyren wrote:
What part of the country do you live in?
I live in southwestern Florida.
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On July 13 2011 08:13 Myles wrote:I live in southwestern Florida.
florida
that means alligators.
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It doesn't really matter if they jump in the water. If it's a big rock like the one in the picture it'll still hit with a lot of force. If all animals are ruled out, I'd bet on something like that. As for purposeful abuse, I don't think anyone would cut a small part of a turtles shell and then just leave it alone. Animal abusers tend to be more brutal.
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On July 13 2011 07:54 Gnial wrote:
You don't live next door to Alexandre Burrows do you?
Hah, you stick your finger into my mouth, or a turtle for that matter, and I may just bite down on it too.
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On July 13 2011 08:37 King K. Rool wrote:Show nested quote +On July 13 2011 08:13 Myles wrote:On July 13 2011 08:12 Hyren wrote:
What part of the country do you live in?
I live in southwestern Florida. florida that means alligators.
Definetly. I hear gator calls from my house regularly. We also have a recent problem of Burmese pythons in the Everglades which can get big enough to eat a gator.
On July 13 2011 08:40 Sotamursu wrote:
It doesn't really matter if they jump in the water. If it's a big rock like the one in the picture it'll still hit with a lot of force. If all animals are ruled out, I'd bet on something like that. As for purposeful abuse, I don't think anyone would cut a small part of a turtles shell and then just leave it alone. Animal abusers tend to be more brutal.
Yea, I guess it's possible. And we do have the same rocks around the edge of the pond, but I don't think one fell in. It just seems unlikely that such a clean break would have happened.
On July 13 2011 08:46 minus_human wrote:
Dog?
I doubt it. They ussually leave puncture wounds. It's happened before a few times. Ussually when we find a new stray that needs a home(5 total, 2 are actual strays, 2 others are adopted, and the other was kinda left in our lap). The house is a pretty much a zoo but with less staff and little training.
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Maybe you took a bite out of it in your sleep?
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Looks more like a human bite than a shark bite.
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