Vet Reunites With Wild Turtle Whose Shell She Once Repaired
Shannon Moore discovered her old patient while on a recent walk.
Years after helping treat a badly injured turtle in a feat of medical engineering, an Ohio veterinarian had the unexpected pleasure to reunite with her old patient.
“Several years ago, a client brought me a box turtle that had been hit by a car,” Shannon Moore, owner of Hocking Hills Animal Clinic in Logan, Ohio, wrote on Facebook last week.
“I used fiberglass to repair his broken shell and then released him in my woods. Recently, while walking on my hillside, I spotted an odd pattern in the leaves.”
That odd pattern turned out to be the shell of the very turtle she had helped out years before.
While Moore didn’t keep a record of the exact date when she treated the turtle, it was “at least two years between treating and finding him” and may have been closer to three years, Moore told HuffPost in an email.
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