Thank you. Yeah my initial thought was to leave him be, it is native, but then I realized there's really nowhere for him to go. I was pretty sure he'd either get ran over in the street or attacked by a dog. He did start sheltering behind my shed. I've put some hollow logs back there for him...
A desert box turtle wandered into my back yard. I live in the middle of a New Mexico city in a neighborhood with small townhouses and small yards. There's really nowhere for him to live around here except in someone's yard and it's luck of the draw with that I suppose. So I've been leaving a...