• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Herping in Texas

AshleyShadows

AshleyShadows

It piss me so bad.
Working at a wildlife center, I find lots of great reptiles and amphibians. And some of them, I'm lucky enough to photograph. And most are in the wrong place like a parking lot or kitchen, so I like to help move them back to where they belong. I'll post more as they come.


Getting a turtle off the road
turtle.jpeg

Relocating a turtle from a lot full of deer to a place with water
turtle 2.jpeg

Relocating a snapper that a lady "rescued" by bringing him far from his home.
Lucky Snapper 2.jpeg

Relocating a rat snake out of a parking lot
Rat snake.jpeg

I suppose the anole would prefer to stay in the kitchen rather than back outside...
Anole.jpeg


Thanks for looking!
 
mike17l said:
That second turtle, a slider of some kind, why did you move it?
Click to expand...


I work at a wildlife center, and it was found in a lot full of 16 deer and a llama that don't watch where they walk. There's also no water anywhere near that area other than in a tall tub that the turtle couldn't get to. So my fellow workers and I moved the turtle to a water source.
 
AshleyShadows said:
I work at a wildlife center, and it was found in a lot full of 16 deer and a llama that don't watch where they walk. There's also no water anywhere near that area other than in a tall tub that the turtle couldn't get to. So my fellow workers and I moved the turtle to a water source.
Click to expand...

Well perhaps if it is not in immediate danger, like a roadway, it should be left as is. Animals do migrate/disperse from areas. I mean if you are trying to "protect" them, they are best left to do what they naturally do.
 
I suppose. I honestly wasn't the one to pick it up, but we all decided as a group that it would have a better chance of surviving outside of that area. The veterinarian that works there also asks us to remove animals found in that particular lot just because of the llama. He's killed plenty of wild animals out there that enter his territory. I'm all for animals killing animals as a food source, but something tells me that the llama and deer wouldn't have feasted on turtle soup.
 
I was the playground snake savior in Houston and Louisiana. I hated it when kids killed snakes and the teachers never cared. I was even the one who got in trouble for saving the poor things.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top