The animal you pictured is a box turtle (Terrapene carolina). Even when the photo is blown up, the back foot is hard to see, but overall it looks to be a three-toed box turtle (T. c. triunguis). The natural range of that type extends from the Mississippi River Valley in southern Louisiana up through Missouri and beyond, west to Texas and Oklahoma.

Your animal is likely an escaped or liberated "pet" and will need you to read up on temperature, food, and housing requirements (of which plenty of info is to be found). Of all the books out there, I don't know if any will inform you how to teach your new animal how to cheer for the banana slugs. Good luck.

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