While your heart is in the right place for wanting to help this turtle, an eight inch box turtle is not a youngster. They are very intelligent and inquistive animals. They adapt readily to changes in their environments, including housing developments. Will the turtle stray onto the road again? That's hard to say but animals die in the wild all the time. That's just life as hard as it may be. To keep an animal captive that's spent it's life in the wild is just cruel. That's why there are wildlife laws in most states dealing with it. I have rehabbed forty-three turtles in eight years hit by cars and lawnmowers or grabbed by dogs or whacked by weedeaters. When I release them, I have no way of knowing whether that same turtles will wander into exactly the same situation all over again but that's the world we live in. We can't take every animal into our homes that we are scared might be hit by a car or otherwise injured by human negligence. Wild animals belong in the wild. They have a place in the ecosystem that can't be replicated by us. Removing them not only affects that animal but the rest of the ecosystem as well.



just my 2 cents,

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