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after the rain last night my yard has turned into a rice paddy field,and my younger dog sniffed out a alligator turtle. are they good eatting? or are they indanger list? will set em free if nt good to eat or indanger. but he sure eatten good fed em two mullets and ate em real fast.

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thanks for the info. was'nt sure so on my way to the surf tomorrow i will put em out to pasture in a good way. still puzzled on how the heck it found it's way to my yard have no pond or creek near me.  getting low on mullet too so his freeloading days are over tomorrow lol.  dang can he eat. also he ant that little lol. but will release em in a nice area all the fish he can eat.  will stick to rattle snake in a can for a fast snack.

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In Old Virginia, there is a bunch of them, as in a few in every pond. Nasty devils, they are lightning quick and bite hard.

 

The old timers up there keep them in drums for about a month, flushing the water and feeding them regularily. They say it helps with the taste. I didn't like it, and a few years in a tub wouldn't have helped. It was difficult to clean the thing, and I decided that eating turtles was not the way to go.

In Washington DC, in a museum up there, they had one that came out of the Mississippi river. It was huge. Probably about four feet across, with a head that could swallow your arm. That turtle was probably over a hundred years old- no good for eating, but very impressive.

Release the thing and don't figure you missed anything worth while.