Braking for Turtles

Over the past couple of weeks, I have spotted quite a few turtles trying to cross the road. I don't know why they are trying to cross the road. Maybe they are trying to get to the other side or maybe they are looking for the shell station. I am not sure about their intention but my intention is not to hit them.

For those of you who know me best, I fully intend to brake for animals but I have had little success. So far I have hit and killed two birds, the Easter bunny, a snake (hopefully), a possum (maybe it lived?), and a dog (and of course billions of bugs have lost their life on my front bumper). One of the birds I killed stayed in my grill for a couple of days. I told my friend Susan that I was going to try to sell it to MiCasita. Ironically, when I came out of the restaurant, the birdie was missing....hmmmm?!?!?!

Getting back to the turtles.....I really do feel so sorry for them. I think they are so cute! A couple of times I have managed to straddle the turtles and sometimes I see them in the middle of the road or on the side or in the other lane and when I get close to them, they crouch into their shell hoping to survive the passing traffic. I am sure that many turtles haven't been so lucky with other drivers. :(

I can't imagine why there are suddenly so many turtles crossing the roads in Sampson county; but I am going to do my very best to spare the lives of as many of them as I can. This is obviously a difficult task for me even when I have the best of intentions for the sweet turtles. I would like to ask each of you to protect the turtles also. You never know, they could be teenage mutant ninja turtles who need their turtle power to save the world!!!!

ps--just a few hours after writing this blog I was driving home and the car in front of me hit a turtle and it went spinning across the lane like a break dancer. Seriously. I almost hit it but I didn't! It was a close call though.