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I am sure that it was a good thing that you got to your cat before she got snapped by that snapping turtle, Kfander.
When I lived in Missouri, there was a catfish pond outback, and it also had snapping turtles in it. Since they mainly stayed under the water, it was hard to know that they were in there unless you happened to have one take the hook when you were fishing.
Then it seemed like you had a big catfish when you reeled the turtle in, and once you actually had it out of the water, then you had to figure out how to get it off of the hook, because by then, that turtle was really mad !
At about that point was when it would raise straight up on those stubby little legs, and come after you with its mouth open and hissing as it advanced.
Sometimes, we had to just cut the line, take the turtle down to the little creek, and hope it would not find its way back to my catfish pond.
I had no idea that a turtle coulld be so agressively bad tempered, until I encountered my first snapping turtle.
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