Woman Has Yard Full of Snapping Turtles
Earlier this summer, Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers that line her driveway. Solving the mystery this week proved to be a snap _ when baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard.
“They just keep popping up out of the hole,” said Cliff Hanson, Kratzke’s brother-in-law.
The turtles had recently hatched and were no bigger than a half dollar coin, said Darrell Perry, another brother-in-law.
Family members scooped up 44 turtles in all. They were put in a cardboard box and taken to the nearby James River.
