Turtles smell funny. Pete ended up being just the right name...Stinky Pete. haha. Well, I called the UGA Vet school and they said they would take him since having a piece of metal stuck through your shell technically qualifies as "injured." Poor thing. He HATED the car ride over, but I had to do it. Anyway, he is safely in the hands of the wildlife specialists at UGA's Small Animal Clinic- one of the best in the country. And they said that the way the metal was in his shell was NOT a form of tagging. They said the way they do it allows for the tag to eventually come off. This was more like marking him so that if the person saw him again one day he would recognize the turtle. But you should never mark a turtle by driving a piece of metal through it's shell and twisting it up. How awful! He could have gotten snagged on something underwater and drowned or he could have gotten caught above water and never gotten to food or water and died. So mean! By the way, I looked up turtles online and from what I could tell in pictures and reading, I guessed him to be a "slider." They said I was right at the vet school! yay! lol.
Ok, Pete is well on his way to being released again to the wild. Probably at nasty Lake Harrick. Yuck.
Love,
The animal-lover who always has a bleeding heart for animals in need.
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