Turtle, 1/2 pint
 

While taking my pup for her morning pee she found this baby in the road at the edge of our driveway. It looked dead, head down, eyes closed. I picked it up and brought it inside. I put it in a container with room temp well water and it perked right up. I live on a fairway and the mowers were out this morning, I think this little one got lucky. There is a large farm pond across the highway behind our house and I'm guessing this may be where it was heading.

I plan to let it go tomorrow after my daughter gets home to see it. She has a thing for turtles. It's very cute!

Looks like a snapper!

I'm pretty sure it is. We have huge turtles like this that come from a farm pond behind our house, across the highway and spend a day going to another pond on the golf course. They travel back to the farm pond in the fall. This little guy was waaay off track on the opposite side of our yard, 3 acres, and quite a distance from any water. Maybe a bird had gotten him? Cute as a bug at this size.

It is cool, the tail is so long! It seems to have recovered from being dried out on the pavement, awfully hot here today for the little guy. He ate some ham but not a bug or lettuce. Go figure. His shell is not much bigger than a quarter.

He's a cutie alright.

I am glad you saved the little turtle! Very cute!

He is so cute. I love to see the big ones. They are so prehistoric looking. Glad you were able to save it.

very very cute...

Up date on 1/2 pint. We took him to the farm pond, golf course pond probably has too many chemicals in it. My daughter had the pleasure of letting him go and he went straight into the water and latched onto a huge snail! Then he wiggled himself into the mud bottom and waved goodbye to us with a big smile on his tiny face! He disappeared into the mud. A good release!

His new home, pretty nice with fish, snails and lots of plants.

Tindomul,
Thanks, me too! Really cool turtles. I think this one will make it.

A happy ending.