Jenny the spaniel works as a turtle tracker and retriever at a grasslands preserve (story inside)

You can read more about Jenny here.

TL;DR: Jenny the Boykin spaniel helps search for ornate box turtles at the Conservancy’s Nachusa Grasslands Preserve in Central Illinois. The dogs find more turtles in 2-3 hours than humans would in a week. The dogs are very gentle, and they carry the turtles without injuring them. The turtles are tracked and tested for preservation purposes.

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LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y (2 replies)

that dog when

ickplant@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Nooooooooooooooo!

zazaserty@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y

Lmao

candyman337@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I thought they said turtle CRACKER and I was very distraught for a moment lmao

ickplant@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

No turtles were cracked in the making of this Lemmy post!

restlessyet@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

same here, lol

Astroturfed@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

I found a box tortoise when I was a child and brought it to show and tell. Teacher apparently freaked out my mom about how bad it was that I put it in a box and we took it somewhere like this lol.

otter@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

I'm just imagining it from the turtle's perspective.

Little guy is cowering in his shell

silly_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 2y
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