Thank you so much for your response and the link to that wonderful story. That sounds exactly like my turtle except she is much younger and can move the stump that's left. She did lay some eggs not long after we found her (I assume they were hers) and we found a couple laying beside the creek, so maybe she had similiar problems the turtle in that link you posted had. I will definitely keep a close eye on her and bring her in to overwinter if her leg doesn't heal up soon. I didn't know you could release them once they had been in captivity like that. I am glad because I could never reproduce the wonderful habitat she has now and I like leaving her where she is to make more wild box turtles.

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