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Source Say: Fear the turtle - especially if it can climb your steps

Published 08/14/09

When Kathy Schaffhauser glanced out her front window one morning last week, something caught her eye: an uninvited visitor ascending the stairs.

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 Kathy Schaffhauser was surprised to find this 14- or 15-inch-long snapping turtle climbing the seventh step to the front porch of her Crofton home last week. Luckily, a passer-by stopped to help move the unwanted guest, but not before the turtle could live up to its name with a few angry snaps. No one was injured in the incident.
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A snapping turtle she estimated was 14 or 15 inches long was on the seventh step of the 10 leading to her Crofton home.

"It has climbed up there himself, I assumed," she said.

Schaffhauser's husband wasn't home, and she didn't know what to do. As she stood outside, contemplating her options, Mark Powell and his son, Frank, pedaled by. She pointed out the shelled visitor to the Powells, who stopped their bicycles to take a look, she said.

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