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Rare Blandings Turtle Rescue by Katheryn Krupa

5/10/2014

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"I can't wait to get out fishing!" exclaimed my brother as we chattered away on our way to my lakeside cottage up north.  Just then I slammed on the brakes!  "What's wrong?" my brother cried.  "A turtle!" I yelled as I leaped from the car and raced to the side of the road.  I grabbed the huge turtle just as another car was rapidly approaching behind us.  Saved!  Rushing back to the car, we examined the huge reptile.  "It's a box turtle" Ben insisted. "And look, its been hit before."  Nope, not a box turtle - I was sure.  But what kind was it?  "Remember when we tried to raise a box turtle as a pet and it got away after one day?" Dan mused.  "Crawled right under the chicken wire and it was history!  (My mother was a kindergarten teacher and avid amateur scientist so we had lots of pets as kids...snakes, a praying mantis, turtles, an alligator, a horned toad, frogs, fish, many guinea pigs, and rabbits).  As soon as we got back, I checked my mom's old pocket guide, the Golden Book of Reptiles.  It was a Blandings turtle!  Rare, endangered! Wow.  Habitat? Woodlands, vernal ponds, marshy, swampy areas...hmmmm.  Not lake turtles. Okay, but behind the neighbor's barn was a huge wetland and swampy area teeming with frogs, insects, snakes and other critters.  Perfect!  After one last look, we released him into his new, safer habitat.  
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