veterinary surgery You Won't Believe It! Snapping Turtle Feeding by Hand (Wichita Falls Reptile Rescue)

After months of rehab with him, we have built up a mutual trust. This illustrates that once these animals know that you mean them no harm, they are indeed capable of being very gentle creatures. People whom pass around the beliefs that snapping turtles, snakes, and other animals are "vicious", are often taught this mindless propaganda by their elders, who were cruel to these animals. The kind of people who attempted to capture and/or kill them...then branded them with prejudiced labels because the animal defended itself.

Donner was hurt badly and bleeding nonstop when he came here, after having been run over by a car and having his shell fractured in several places, and a large section on the top of his carapace having been pulled right off his back, above the spine. He was in a lot of pain and he was very defensive toward me, and he snapped at me often when he first got here. After some time, he began to associate my interaction with him as making him feel better, because I would administer pain medications to him. He soon became completely trusting of me, and I noticed that he could tell when my hand contained food, and when it didn't. He would make no effort to bite me, and would take his food carefully from my hand, even failing to secure large enough bites on his food in many cases in order to avoid biting me. These turtles are extremely intelligent, and not many wild animals would take such care to avoid biting you, if you were to offer them food by hand. This is an extremely unique case. Donner is an individual, like all animals, however, this shows clearly that even a snapping turtle can judge your character and decide to trust.

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veterinary surgery You Won't Believe It! Snapping Turtle Feeding by Hand (Wichita Falls Reptile Rescue)
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