I rescued a turtle from certain roadkillitude yesterday. The little thing was crawling directly across a big, fast road. I just had to stop, pick it up, and carry it to a safe place far from the dangers of high-speed cars. It felt good to help one turtle, at least, avoid becoming a hapless victim of a 4-ton piece of steel.

If it had been a squirrel, that's a whole different story. Squirrels and chipmunks have a fighting chance; they can at least theoretically dart quickly out of the way. But when your self-defense mechanism involves freezing and pulling into a shell, you're doomed from the outset.