14 DAY TRIAL // They say no good deed goes unpunished. This may or may not be true, but what is as clear as day is that, be it only every once in a while, a good deed can have your name plastered across the front page of dozens of news magazines.
This is precisely what happened to a woman named Kathleen Talbot, who ended up making headlines after stumbling upon and lending a helping hand to a two-headed baby snapping turtle in distress.
One two-headed turtle this way comes
Media reports say the woman, who now lives in the town of Hudson in Maine, US, found the two-headed turtle, a photo of which is available next to this article, just a few days ago.
Talking to the press, Kathleen Talbot explained that she was merely watching a group of turtle hatchlings crossing a local road when she noticed one of them was in dire need of help making it to the other side.
The woman rushed to its help and picked it up from the ground. Because the baby snapping turtle was covered in dirt, the woman first assumed that it had some weird legs sticking out of the front of its shell.
However, after giving the creature a good scrub, Kathleen Talbot found that what she assumed were two legs was actually a perfectly formed set of heads. Needless to say, this discovery took her quite by surprise.
“I thought he had two feet in the front, I thought he was deformed,” the turtle lover told the press in a recent interview, as cited by Mirror. “I didn't realize it was two heads until I got him home and washed him,” she added.
Seeing how it is not all that often that one finds two-headed turtles wondering the streets, Kathleen Talbot took the baby snapping turtle back home with her. Here, she fed it and helped it get back on its feet.
It even named it Frank and Stein, as in “Frankenstein.” Given this baby turtle's odd anatomy, there is little doubt these two names suit it just fine. The only problem is the creature is yet to learn to answer when called.
What will happen to Frank and Stein?
Kathleen Talbot says that, although she is glad she managed to save this two-headed turtle, she has absolutely no intention to keep it as a pet. However, the woman does not want to simply abandon it either.
With a little bit of luck, Frank and Stein might soon be welcomed by a marine park in the country. Here, it would get to spend the rest of its life playing with other turtles of its kind.