These boys found turtles squashed on the road. Now they spend their days helping other turtles cross
These boys found turtles squashed on the road. Now they spend their days helping other turtles get across.
Brothers Cole and Blake Meyer — ages 10 and 8 — were on their bikes headed to go fishing last month when they saw something awful down the road from their northern Iowa home.
There were a bunch of dead baby turtles, flattened by cars on the thoroughfare between two wetlands, Ventura Marsh and Clear Lake.
“They were all squished, and their shells were broken,” said Cole, who lives with his family in the small city of Ventura. “We felt really sad for them.”
The two boys climbed off their bikes and began helping other small turtles that were slowly (very slowly) crossing to the other side of the road looking for new nesting spots.
“We picked up one in each hand and took them across, then we went back for some more,” Cole said. “We spent the whole day out there, saving turtles.”
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Hats off to these good kids!
These are good kids to care for fragile creatures the way they do. My friends and I would have done the same at their age. We loved all creatures great and small - well, maybe not snakes and spiders so much, but we didn't try to kill them.
It's nice to see young boys do something so life affirming. Well done, young men! 
in them. 
