Groggily, I went outside with my dog, so that I could try to see if he would poop. Being 14-15 years old, his pooping schedule changes on a dime, and it’s among the most frustrating things in the world when he goes stretches of 36+ hours between poops, and I have no idea when to expect him needing to go again. It was 7 a.m.-something, which meant all the grass would be wet and dewy and I don’t like to get my feet wet, but I had just cut it the day prior, so perhaps it wouldn’t be so terrible.
As we walked through the field next to my driveway, I spotted something out of the ordinary not far from us: a turtle. It looked like a box turtle, which meant that it was mostly harmless, unlike their prehistoric cousins, the snapping turtle. But it doesn’t matter if you’re eight or 38, if there’s a turtle out in the wild, it’s worth checking out, so I went over to it just so I could snap a picture of it and show mythical wife later on when she woke up.
After taking the first picture, I thought hm, maybe I should try from the other side, so there’s no big fat shadow cast over it, so I walked to the opposite side of the turtle, and that’s when I noticed that it wasn’t just a turtle, but it was two turtles…
Yup, they were having sex. Right in the middle of a big grassy field, one turtle mounted right on top of the other.
Well, after getting photographic evidence of the tryst, I let them be; far be it for me to intrude any further on their intimate moment. But there we have it; saw some wild turtles in nature for the first time in eons, and they just so happened to be banging out in public. Color me amused.
