There are lots of reasons. First, turtles don't care. Their little reptile brain doesn't process emotion, mostly just fear and hunger. Second, turtles can carry diseases like salmonella, cholera or typhoid fever. Then there this:
They bite. And some of them bite darned hard:
They're called 'snapping' turtles for a very good reason, but this hapless animal lover just had to find out the hard way and ended up in hospital.
The Chinese man was reportedly releasing the ferocious-looking creature into the wild but decided he had to give it a goodbye kiss first.
Unfortunately the love was not exactly requited and the snapping turtle did what snapping turtles do and snapped him on the lip.
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