Cute turtle. You may have noticed the pond in the background of my garden photos ... it is full of red-eared sliders, which is largely what the stores used to sell us with a little plastic bowl and the obligatory plastic palm tree that every turtle needs for life to be complete. The females lay eggs all over my yard, and they especially seem to like the damp and shady spots under/behind the shrubs that surround the house. I can't tell you how many little turtles the size of a quarter that I've rescued from inside the garage because they took a premature turn on their way to the pond.
Every time I see a turtle crossing the road, I pull over and carry it to the other side. A very large male snapper was quite rude about the whole thing last Sunday, and all the while I'm trying to tell him that I'm doing him a favor.
Had a snapper in the big pond a few years ago....Thought he was sticking his head out....BUT when he got into the little gold fish pond realized it was just the “bump” on his snout....He was HUGE! His head was much larger than my hand. Called a neighbor and they had a large pot of soup.