{"id":2825,"date":"2009-05-31T10:38:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T15:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2010-01-16T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T17:08:02","slug":"puppy-love-comes-to-a-cape-cod-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=2825","title":{"rendered":"Puppy Love Comes to a Cape Cod Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Turtle)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This tragic\u00c2\u00a0story has been told a million times in books, plays and movies.\u00c2\u00a0 From Homer’s tale of Helen and Paris\u00c2\u00a0set in Troy\u00c2\u00a0nearly 3000 years ago,\u00c2\u00a0to Shakespeare’s impetuous Italian teens “Romeo and Juliet”\u00c2\u00a0penned\u00c2\u00a0in 1597,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Bernstein’s musical\u00c2\u00a0update relocated to New York City with Tony and Maria in the 1957 “West Side Story,” these cross-cultural romances rarely find a happy conclusion.\u00c2\u00a0 And so it was in the salt marsh of Chipman’s Cove one bright spring day when boy from the\u00c2\u00a0upland Canine\u00c2\u00a0Clan\u00c2\u00a0met girl from the brackish Reptile Family.\u00c2\u00a0 From the first you knew nothing good would come of it.<\/p>\n

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First Fateful Meeting of Boy and Girl<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As the Turtle Journal team\u00c2\u00a0censused diamondback terrapins in their mating aggregation on the Outer Cape, along came an energetic canine boy to experience his first encounter with turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 You could see his fascination from the first, as he strained on his leash to investigate these wonderful creatures with that\u00c2\u00a0exotic “Eau du Marsh Parfum.”\u00c2\u00a0 He couldn’t restrain himself as he danced about to the rhythmic cadence of Jets and Sharks.<\/p>\n

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Love Blossoms<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was love at first sight.\u00c2\u00a0 He couldn’t take his eyes (or nose) off her as she strained in the bucket to\u00c2\u00a0flee his native uplands and\u00c2\u00a0escape to her more familiar lowland estuary home.\u00c2\u00a0 The tragic ending came quickly as boy tried to express his devotion with a sniff and a kiss, and\u00c2\u00a0girl rejected his advance with a nip on the nose.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadly, it was doomed from the start and could never have worked.\u00c2\u00a0 They came from two different worlds that only\u00c2\u00a0met on a spring high tide.<\/p>\n

On a happier postscript, boy returned to the marsh a week later, perhaps to refresh memories of\u00c2\u00a0his puppy love.\u00c2\u00a0 Older and wiser, he inspected the new set of bucket girls from afar.\u00c2\u00a0 I could have sworn that he rubbed his paw across his nose as he waved goodbye to the new ladies of the bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Turtle) This tragic\u00c2\u00a0story has been told a million times in books, plays and movies.\u00c2\u00a0 From Homer’s tale of Helen and Paris\u00c2\u00a0set in Troy\u00c2\u00a0nearly 3000 years ago,\u00c2\u00a0to Shakespeare’s impetuous Italian teens “Romeo and Juliet”\u00c2\u00a0penned\u00c2\u00a0in 1597,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Bernstein’s musical\u00c2\u00a0update relocated to New York City with Tony and Maria in the 1957 “West Side Story,” these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}