Originally Posted by rekmeyata

I use to live in the Mojave Desert of CA and I as well as numerous friends picked those Desert Tortoise up and moved them because they were attempting to cross a road or highway and a few moronic drivers would purposely aim for them and run them over, the Desert Tortoise conservation people even suggested that we move them to prevent death because they were endangered, but not to take them home, so we moved them in their direction of travel and I would carry them about a 10th of mile past the road. In the dozen or so times I did that NONE ever peed, all they would do is hiss, not saying they wouldn't I just never seen or heard of it happening, I think they probably realize they could die if they emptied their bladder. The conservation people were more concerned they get off the road due to imminent danger policy placed on them then they were about them emptying their bladder, of course we weren't suppose to pick one up if found in their natural habitat because there they weren't in any imminent danger...of course just like moronic car drivers there were moronic people walking in the desert who just had to pick one up for some odd reason. Most of the time the turtles were usually crossing a road to get to water anyways.

This turtle thing brings me to another turtle story here in Fort Wayne, I was riding my bike and saw a few stopped cars on the road to what first appeared to be an accident from far away, as I got closer people were outside their cars starring at the road which then I thought great someone hit another cyclist, but as I got closer I saw this good size snapping turtle just setting on the road. So like the Tortoise I was use to picking up I go to pick up this guy and WHOA look out here comes this head attached to a long neck, much longer than the Tortoise that almost got my hand! So we all sat around trying different ways to move him and nothing worked so I used my foot and flipped him over and over until he was off the road. This action did not hurt the turtle, in addition their not on the endangered species list either, but none of us in that stopped crowd wanted to see any car to hit it either. Once the turtle got to the side of the road it crawled off into the grassy area.