As I've said before, n8ly, your subjects are really using the Cheyenne method of FPPT which has the signature effect of an eye to eye relationship.
As far as the snapping turtle, I assume you are wearing a steel-mesh jock-strap?
Excerpt from Robert Crais' "The Monkey's Raincoat:" "She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."