Little Visitors

This morning I was in the kitchen getting Arden's food ready and I heard a noise at the door. It sounded like maybe someone was putting a flyer in the door. Then I kept hearing it. I thought OK that can't be someone dropping a flyer by because they've been there way too long. The cats were freaking out and I was convinced someone was trying to break in with a credit card (it wasn't loud enough to be someone breaking the door down). The noise finally stopped and I got the nerve to look out the door. I didn't see anything. No flyers, no people, no credit cards left behind from a failed attempt....then I looked down. There was the robber in the corner. A turtle. Apparently he was trying to climb up the door. I decided that the turtle needed to be near water so I got Arden ready, found a container to put him in ( I read that it had to big enough so that if the turtle freaked out and rolled onto it's back he'd have enough room to roll back over or else they could DIE).
You know, I THOUGHT than turtles were scared of people and put their legs and head in their shell when someone came near them or tried to pick them up. How silly of me. Of course they need to protect themselves. I tried picking up this little guy with red eyes and long claws and and his neck seemed to grow by the second and his legs kept coming out each time I tried to pick him up. And what a wiggly thing! He would also apparently dig his claws or suction his feet into the concrete and brick and I couldn't get him off the ground (partly because his red eyes and constantly growing neck and legs scared me) so I gave up (or chickened out) and after being on the porch fighting with guy for 45 minutes, my little helper gave up on me and decided to take a nap to pass the time. Then I spotted this guy on the door, but I didn't mess with him because I saw him eating bugs.