Authorities Euthanize Snapping Turtle After Teacher Allegedly Feeds It A Live Puppy
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March 16, 2018As I mentioned a few days ago, an Idaho science teacher came under fire after he allegedly fed a live puppy with birth defects to a snapping turtle in front of students.
You really should catch up here if you don’t know what I’m talking about.
Anyway… I have an update…
And somehow, the TURTLE got the short end of the stick on this one.
Idaho officials have euthanized a snapping turtle at the center of an probe into whether a biology teacher fed it a sick puppy in front of students.
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture said in a statement Friday that snapping turtles are an invasive species in Idaho requiring a permit. Officials reportedly seized the animal the day before.
An Associated Press report had law enforcement officials saying they had stepped up security for three schools in the Preston School District in eastern Idaho this week following some vague threats connected to an allegation that the puppy was fed to the turtle earlier this month at the district’s junior high.
Two parents have said the teacher fed the turtle a sick puppy.
Call me weird… but I HATE THIS.
THE SNAPPING TURTLE DID NOTHING WRONG!
I mean… sure, it ate a puppy! But it’s not that snapping turtle’s fault! He didn’t know any better! He was FED the puppy!
Full disclosure: Back when I lived in Indiana I pulled over and nudged turtles out of the road ALL THE TIME. When I first got my license I saw a man go out of his way to hit a box turtle. He then reversed and finished the job.
Box turtles are sweet innocent creatures. I followed the guy for MILES honking my horn and crying. I then got a VERY stern talking to from my father about the dangers of road rage. I was 16… ok?!
Ever since then I’d literally block small country roads while I stopped to make sure the turtles wouldn’t get hit. Once I encountered a snapping turtle that was just sitting in the middle of the road.(anyone who knows snapping turtles knows they’re NO fun to have to move) So I grabbed my ice scraper (one of those long ones with a brush on the other side) and tap tap tapped it over to the side of the road. The thing hated me for it, and kept opening its big ol’ mouth like it was going to bite me…. but yeah. I stop for turtles.
RIP, Puppy Eater.
