#there's a secret pond towards the very back of our local botanical garden
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Helped a friend cross the road safely today C: it's a Florida Softshell Turtle!
#not pictured: me and my gf ushering him around like a pair of underwhelming bodyguards#didnt want to pick him up if we didnt have to so that he wasnt as stressed#so we just kinda stood in between him and cars as he made his own way across and into the bigass neighborhood pond#also had to stop my MIL from picking him up and moving him herself#bc she thought that since i said it wasnt a snapper that it was 100% safe to pick up#like mom.....its still a wild animal with a nasty bite. just not the one that's guaranteed to break bones w the bite#softshells have Incredibly long necks too so you gotta be precise with how u grab em from the back#its actually sorta like holding a pizza box#except the pizza box has a head and will bite you if youre hand is anywhere except the bottom of it#anyways i fucking adore softshells and their stupid faces#there's a secret pond towards the very back of our local botanical garden#and there's a pair of softshells + i believe a map turtle that always greet me when i walk down there#i also saw a very tiny hatchling softshell during the last baby reptile season when i went to sit by the pond#as well as a hatchling watersnake. i believe it was a banded watersnake?#but their markings are all v similar when it comes to the non venomous watersnakes around there
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