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For now, the transplanted Fullerton resident will be heavily fed with chicken, rodents, shrimp, fish and smelt, then placed in double burlap bags and hosed down until his transcontinental journey.

"We will put him in a pet carrier, then in a crate to be shipped on a red-eye flight in the cool night air," Paquette said.

I am very happy that I will not behind all this at the securtiy inspection line when the turtle flys. Funny thing is that they will take away your nail clippers but not your 100 pound snapping turtle! But it is nice to see hat the turtle gets the same airline food as the regular pasengers.