Why Blake Shelton’s Animal-Cruelty Tweet Matters

in Animal News on August 23, 2012

This is a story of Twitter and the turtle. Blake Shelton, country singer and a star of TV’s “The Voice,” tweeted that he swerved his vehicle to “smash” an Oklahoma box turtle. When my friend, herpetology expert John F. Taylor alerted me to the tweet, I replied to Shelton asking if his comment was a bad joke or he was really so cruel?

Link: NPR.org

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