Earlier this summer, Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers lining her driveway. Solving the mystery this week, it turned out that baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard.
reports that the turtles had recently hatched and were about the size of a half dollar coin.
"They just keep popping up out of the hole," said Cliff Hanson, Kratzke's brother-in-law.
Family members ended up finding 44 turtles in all. They were put in a cardboard box and taken to the James River nearby.
Snapping turtles can live to be decades old and can end up weighing up to 40 pounds, According to Gene Van Eeckhout, a biologist with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, they do not make nice pets.
The woman had thought it was a muskrat or a raccoon that had been disturbing her flowers. Sometimes it is the creature least expected.
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Woman has yard full of snapping turtles
Debra Myers (skyangel)
