Must’ve been a snapping turtle. The little Terrapins and Box Turtles we have here don’t make it through traffic, they get crushed. Tender-hearted people stop and carry them across the road, because they move so slowly that they’re very likely to get run over.
Yep, wife rescued a box turle years ago. It lived with us in it’s own little space for quite a few years, tolerating kittens hunting it. Wife read up on them and built a shelter for her to hibernate. She did.
This tender hearted person once pulled a 7 foot bull snake off the road and sent it into the bushes so it would not get run over. It showed it’s gratitude by not biting me.
I have seen people swerve to hit them like it’s a game.
“...because they move so slowly that they’re very likely to get run over.”
Which one...the turtle or the “tender-hearted” Samaritan?
(Yes, I too am guilty of stopping and helping creatures across the road.)
It must have helped my karma because a few day later I found a $100 bill on the floor of a bar, and I lost my clip on sunglasses in a large open space preserve and returned the next day, and found them!
As an aside I have a new musical obsession: Covers of rock and heavy metal songs performed by bluegrass-type people. It's a lot of fun, and Pandora linked me to this odd/interesting band called Trampled by Turtles.