Lakeshore Advance, 2013-05-22, Page 7OM nr. photo
Kate Siena handles Porter, an injured male snapping turtle, athe Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre Tuesday.
Porter and another injured female turtle were flown to the Peterborough trauma centre this past weekend.
Volunteers go the distance for snapping turtle
WI Agency
Who says turtles can't fly?
Not a group of volunteers who
went the distance to help a 13 Ib.
snapping turtle this weekend.
When a driver found Porter
the turtle critically injured on a
Port Franks road Friday, wildlife
rescuers knew he would need
more help than they could pro-
vide locally.
"We patched tip his shell, but
his upper and lower Jaws were
injured so severely," said Peggy
Jenkins, of Heaven's Wildlife
Rescue in (oil Springs. "The
quickest way we could think to
get him to the Kawartha Turtle
Trauma Centre was flying hint."
On Saturday, Porter and
another injured turtle made the
one-hour airplane ride from Sar-
nia airport to the Peterborough
turtle hospital.
Windsor pilot Rick Woodall
flew the pair of turtles after he
received an email request from
Pilots N Paws.
The non-profit works with
pilots who volunteer their time
and aircraft to transport animals
across Canada.
Woodall admits he was ini -
tially skeptical of !lying turtles.
However, his 1:1 -year old urged
hie) on to make the trek.
"My daughter insisted if it was
it turtle, I'd have to do it," he
saki.
Woodall stowed the turtles in
boxes in the hack seat of his two-
seater plane.
"'they were Ilict' and quiet," he
joked. "1 think they liked having
a little species camaraderie with
themselves"
Porter has since undergone
surgery al Kawarthil Turtle
Trauma (:entre. Itis jaws have
been realigned and he is
expected to slake a full
recovery.
Drivers should he mindful of
turtles crossing roads this time
of year, Jenkins said. Female tut
ties are especially active as
they're busy laying t'ggs.
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