r/TurtleFacts Jun 09 '21

FACT: this little guy (or girl) is adorable

1.4k Upvotes

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u/Mizango Jun 09 '21

I love baby muskies. I see them a lot behind my house.

Great find :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

So cute, used to see them when we would float down the springs in central Florida

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u/Mizango Jun 09 '21

Right on. Happy cake day!

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u/WeenieHuttGod2 Jun 10 '21

Lucky, I’d love to be able to go behind my house and find a bunch of turtles

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u/podank99 Jun 09 '21

i've held a few dudes like this. One time it was a lil baby alligator snapping turtle. I took him home for the winter and released his fat smelly ass the next summer back in the same lake 4 hours away from my home. We moved away, lost the cottage on the lake, and probably 20 years goes by. I went back and in the same part of this small lake, caught a HUGE snapping turtle in a net. I am convinced it was him.

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u/gnurdette Jun 09 '21

oh the little claws

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u/natureswoodwork Jun 10 '21

I know! So freaking adorable

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u/The-Empty-Teacup Jun 09 '21

Aawwww it’s so cute!!!

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u/notvithechemist Jun 10 '21

This is the tiniest, purest thing to exist and I love him

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '21

Fact: The gender neutral term would have been turtle

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

I've started to notice how some animals are immediately gendered as male. Never would have picked up on this before 10 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

So many people call all dogs he and all cats she. Its pretty fucked up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

My grandfather did that

I'm glad how the world is changing in this regard

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '21

The fact that this is being downvoted is depressing. Your pet obviously doesn't care, but its still a bad habit to have an arbitrary gender bias.

My inlaws do this constantly with their female dog and male cat, and the only reason for it is ignorance.

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u/ghost-church Jun 09 '21

The Great God Om: Put me down or be impaled on fiery stakes!

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u/WilliamW2010 Jun 10 '21

I gave a free silver award to say yes

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u/natureswoodwork Jun 10 '21

That was very kind of you. Thank you so much!

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u/WilliamW2010 Jun 19 '21

Think about that for a sec with the free gift silver award from reddit I got by chance I said yes if you don't see what subreddit that kind of act goes on you might have 0 IQ

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u/WilliamW2010 Jun 19 '21

I also gave it a hugz award to say yes and it too was a random gift

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u/Senninha27 Jun 10 '21

Hello, little friend!

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u/0The_monkey_man0 Jun 10 '21

Are you scared to misgender a turtle

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u/natureswoodwork Jun 10 '21

Yes. Yes I am.

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u/0The_monkey_man0 Jun 11 '21

But why

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u/natureswoodwork Jun 11 '21

Because turtle feelings matter too

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u/catgamer109 Jun 10 '21

Why are you afraid of misgendering a turtle

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u/Happy-Map7656 Jun 15 '21

Have a picture of a baby turtle from Tingley Beach, Albucracky, NM.

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u/benmcgag Jun 27 '21

This ones adorable. I have musks around the dock at my cottage. I don't know if I could say they age well haha.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '21

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