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.
Mark Powell,...
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