# Turtle and a dog playing with a ball. Say what?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 13, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013 "2014-07-13T19:38:20Z")
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/1 "2014-07-13T19:38:20Z")
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.
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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.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/2 "2014-07-13T19:51:49Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/3 "2014-07-13T20:31:27Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> 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. ☹
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/4 "2014-07-13T20:35:27Z")
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](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
[ ](http://turtletanksetup.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pet-turtle.jpg)
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/5 "2014-07-14T02:14:39Z")
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.
StG
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/6 "2014-07-14T03:39:30Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Turtles aren’t slow and cumbersome at all.
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.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/7 "2014-07-14T04:28:17Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/8 "2014-07-14T04:36:27Z")
Is that a turtle or a tortoise? I thought turtles were mostly water based.
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2014, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turtle-and-a-dog-playing-with-a-ball-say-what/693013/9 "2014-07-14T09:49:15Z")
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.