KRC
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During our walk in the forest yesterday our newly acquired half-lab retriever (rescue dog) sniffed out and grabbed 5 box turtles. Is this something other labs do?
Turtle Dog?
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- Jul 29, 2014
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Wish I had him when I was a kid!
- Jan 30, 2013
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Mine liked tennis balls.
You aren’t kidding!!
johnkn
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- Feb 27, 2012
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When I was a kid I had a mixed dog who found turtles all the time and would bring them home wet with spit but unharmed.
Brickman301
Ultimate Member
My blue tick coon hound would do the same.
My last dog (a Jack Russell mix) was fascinated by turtles, but she didn't know what to make of them. In her first few encounters, she would position herself between you and the turtle and would bark at you if you got to close as if to say "stay back, it may be dangerous". After she realized that they were safe, she would actively seek them out and try to bury them in vegetation or mulch using her snout as a shovel. We saw more than a few mulch covered turtles walking down our back pathway in the last few years.
Cool, I had a half lab that would do the same thing.
- Jul 29, 2014
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Not a turtle dog story, but one wram-ish sunny day bow hunting, I was sitting in my stand. I kept hearing a clacking noise behind me and I couldn't figure out where the hell it was coming from. Finally I stood up and leaned out over my stand and looked straight down. At the base of my tree, two box turtles were 'having relations'. It sounded like two skeletons on a tin roof!
Maybe it’s an all dog thing
Our dachshunds seem to find box turtles every so often in our yard then won’t stop barking at them. Once under the AC unit and we could not figure it out till we looked hard as it was dug into the mulch. Yesterday’s haul was in the middle of the grass. Looked like it dug a hole to drop eggs?
With all the dirt I thought it was stuck till I lifted it up to relocate it.
We put it back and took the dogs back inside.
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Our dachshunds seem to find box turtles every so often in our yard then won’t stop barking at them. Once under the AC unit and we could not figure it out till we looked hard as it was dug into the mulch. Yesterday’s haul was in the middle of the grass. Looked like it dug a hole to drop eggs?
With all the dirt I thought it was stuck till I lifted it up to relocate it.
We put it back and took the dogs back inside.
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eightshot627
Active Member
As a kid we had a Brittany that would point box turtles.
mauser58
My home is a sports store
We have like 4 box turtles that have been hanging around for at least ten years now. Property is fenced so they cant get too far. Was more at one time and several found openings I guess and crawled away. They mate and lay eggs as I have watched them in July. Usually about 2nd week in July. They dont hatch till end of September as I cover the spot with wire cloth so we dont walk on them. I have seen many babies and several this week. They are the size of a quarter. I have read about dogs trained to sniff out box turtles though. They are getting rare it seems. There are groups that clear land of them before its bulldozed to build. They sniff them out and they round them up and relocated them. In the area I live you rarely see them around anymore
Since no one else has said it, it's fine to have them sniff out the turts but don't let them touch it. Like frogs, snakes and other reptiles, they can carry Salmonella and it can kill your pet. If he picked them up, I would call my vet and see if there is a test then can do to see if he caught it.
I had a GSD growing up that would catch 3 or 4 turtles every evening in the summer, take them into the garage, turn them upside down, and spin them like a top with his nose. He didn't reallly hurt them, just probably made them dizzy. In the morning we would collect them out of the garage and set them free. We eventually put tiny magic marker dots on their shells to see if he was catching the same ones. I think one got caught 3 times and that was the record.
Yes, I've heard they aren't doing well, that their population has been significantly reduced.
I'm glad to see all these posts reporting tortoise sightings, and I hope everyone will be kind to our slow moving reptilian buddies.
Just remember, if you see one crossing the road, move it in the direction it is going or it will wind up in the road again.
lowoncash
Baned
Tried turtle soup. Liked it.
Blacksmith101
Grumpy Old Man
- Jun 22, 2012
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I have seen two snapping turtles this past week looking for a place to lay eggs. In the past I have watched them lay eggs and in every case the night following the egg laying some night critter dug up the eggs and ate them. I one case I saw the culprit and it was a skunk.
Yes. There was an article on it back when the ICC was being built. The county hired a woman who's dog was trained to (or was just good at) sniff out turtles. She walked through the intended path of the road and pulled out any turtles that they found, and moved them to a safer place.
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