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"Giant" Alligator Snapping Turtle Found in Oregon, Euthanized
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:07 am
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:07 am
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Them folks up North, they're a different breed.
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Its shell is being prepared to become part of the department’s educational display of non-native invasive species, said Greg Jackle, a district biologist in Prineville.
“We euthanized it as soon as we got it back to the office,” he said. “It’s obviously a very large turtle that was not something that we’ve ever seen over here before.”
First reported by an angler at the popular Central Oregon reservoir, it was the first alligator snapping turtle found in the wild in eastern Oregon.
The turtle was killed using protocols established by the American Veterinary Medical Association. In this case, those are sedating the turtle, then dispatching it with a blow to the head.
Them folks up North, they're a different breed.
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“I’d hate to see these turtles get established in Oregon,” he said. “We already have problems in the Willamette Valley with common snapping turtles.”
If you see an alligator or common snapping turtle, contact your local ODFW office.
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Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:08 am to Redfish2010
Dad ate one a few weeks ago
It's head was bigger than the head of a shovel
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It's head was bigger than the head of a shovel
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Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:09 am to Redfish2010
they don't want a non-native species becoming established
I don't see the problem here...
I don't see the problem here...
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:09 am to Redfish2010
Wait, that's a GIANT turtle? 
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:10 am to Redfish2010
What a beast!
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:10 am to Redfish2010
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sedating the turtle, then dispatching it with a blow to the head.
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:13 am to Redfish2010
Wow is all that can be said
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:15 am to Redfish2010
Did somebody turn it into soup?
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:17 am to Redfish2010
I wonder if they fried the backstrap?
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:26 am to Redfish2010
hopefully somebody made a sauce
Posted on 10/25/13 at 10:43 am to Redfish2010
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Giant
I've seen bigger in the drainage ditch behind my house
Posted on 10/25/13 at 11:37 am to Redfish2010
Non native invasive species are a bitch.
I don't think anybody on this board will argue that wild hogs are not a nuisance.
I don't think anybody on this board will argue that wild hogs are not a nuisance.
Posted on 10/25/13 at 11:59 am to Redfish2010
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those are sedating the turtle, then dispatching it with a blow to the head
I thought sedating one was a blow to the head.
Posted on 10/25/13 at 12:11 pm to Redfish2010
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The turtle was killed using protocols established by the American Veterinary Medical Association. In this case, those are sedating the turtle, then dispatching it with a blow to the head.
love how they always say this shite. Why blow a round of sedation on a reptile just to whack his noggin? But its Oregon, so they probably did do this.
Posted on 10/25/13 at 4:36 pm to Redfish2010
surely there's a coonass in Oregon who could show them how to make a turtle soup. I hate to think that thing went to waste.
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