Another amazing animal moment caught on film. I’ve never seen a turtle move this fast. I didn’t think they could move with so much agility. Never knew turtles had a playful competitive side either. Wow, this is a head scratcher.
this is fun to watch. I’m fascinated that he never once retreats back into his shell.
We have snapping turtles in my state and in Louisiana. I’ll be much more wary of them from now on. Turtles aren’t slow and cumbersome at all.
Anyone else have a pet turtle as a kid? My mom bought me one at a pet store It came with a plastic dish thing. With a raised area “island” and even a plastic palm tree. Good times until mom read kids handling turtles were getting sick from salmonella. I came home from school and my turtle was gone. 
Mine was really small. Maybe the size of a Kennedy half dollar?
My sibs and I each got one every summer, from a gift shop at the Jersey Shore (Lucy Evelyn, anyone?) They all eventually escaped, and we found them all over the house eventually. Flat and dry.
My mom must have taken mine away before it escaped. I’m glad that it didn’t die in the house.
Cats like turtles.
http://www.petsfoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/cat-turtle-pet-friends.jpg
I’d enjoy having a turtle again. This aquarium is interesting
I move turtles off the road all the time. I often wonder what they think when this giant swoops them up, and they go flying, only to magically land where they were headed.
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In the ocean, turtles usually swim faster than people. I was actually surprised last time I was snorkeling and saw one, and it hung around, swimming slowly while we took pictures.
My pet male dachshund adopted a desert tortoise.
He was a life-long spoiled indoor dog who refused to sleep outside. (Or, more precisely, he always wanted to be where the people were, wherever that was.) One day, though, we found him furiously pawing and fussing at the bottom of the fence near the gate. So we looked around outside the gate, and found a desert tortoise in the ivy. He was clearly someone’s pet tortoise, because the back of his shell was painted gold.
We put him in the backyard. The dog immediately adopted him. For the next week, he slept outside. When the gardener tried to pick him up to mow the lawn, the dog lunged at his face. (He never did anything like that before or since.)
After about a week, a neighborhood kid came around looking for him, and took him back.
Is that a turtle or a tortoise? I thought turtles were mostly water based.
I don’t think the turtle’s intention was to play soccer with a dog. I think the turtle’s intention was to mate with the ball and the dog was cock-blocking him.