drv@eisx.UUCP (Dennis Vogel) (06/05/84)
Reprinted without permission from the June 2 New Jersey "Courier News" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TURTLE SHOT AFTER BITING COW'S NOSE PENOBSCOT, Maine (AP) - A 24-pound snapping turtle with feet as big as "bear claws" was shot and killed after it bit a 1,400-pound cow on the nose, a woman says. "I've never seen a turtle that big," Elaine Dorr said. She said she and her husband, Ed, found the turtle last week after they went to investigate a commotion in a pasture behind their home in this coastal town. "The cow was in the pasture making this horrid noise" and bleeding profusely from its nose, she said, adding that another cow and a calf that shared the pasture were very agitated. The Dorrs found the turtle in the grass, about 100 yards from the closest water. "Its feet looked like bear claws," Mrs. Dorr said. Fearing for the calf's safety, and not knowing how to approach the turtle, the Dorrs decided to shoot it. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dennis Vogel, AT&T Information Systems