The date was the 21st of September. While taking a walk by a lake a father and daughter found something out of the ordinary. A small shell laying in the middle of the walk way. “ Should we touch him?” the father questioned. The daugher with no hesitation excitedly responded, “YES!”.
Shell of a dark green moss shading and covered in a layer of dull edged spikes. The small creature doesn’t move as they reach to save him from a collision with another walkers feet. carefully moving him they realize his skin is flakey and dry. The creature is discovered to be a new hatchling snapping turtle. They were astonished to find something so unexpected.
They soon name the little snapping turtle sam because their reason was “It’s a neutral name , it can be used for boys or girls.” They walk “Sam” over to a side pond next to the lake. The turtle is released into the water to live a normal life in the wild. Weather Sam lives or dies the viewers of this event may never know, but they can always hope he is living a happy life in the wild at the top of the food chain. Leaving the sight of the phenomenon , all they could take from it was a lesson. Animals need to be wild and free if that’s how they came in to the world. Wild animals shouldn’t be contained in cages all their lives. The world is an animals litter box.
I like how specific you are on how you think about the turtle and what the thing that are around you.
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