Yep. The neck on those things can really freak you out! When I worked for a park management company, I got a frantic call from one of our elderly residents saying a turtle was trying to tear into their screened porch. I assured them that wasn't its intent, as it was simply trying to reach the water that it knew resided somewhere on the other side of their house, and didn't know how to get there. When I got over to their house, I tried to pick up the turtle to move it around the house, and the thing proceeded to stretch its head out a good six inches or so and curve around and try to see what had a hold of it. Freaky! It was about the size of the one in your picture. Very heavy! Too large to try to hold it way back by its back legs, and if I held it further up, it could reach me with it's beak. I wound up putting it back on the ground and then, wearing my dress and high heels, I proceeded to prod it the 100 feet to the canal. They are freaky! Neat, but freaky!

That is Trachemys scripta, the Red-eared or Yellow-bellied Slider. Trachemys eggs usually hatch around 60 days after they are laid., but if it is warmer than usual they can hatch sooner.

Thats definitely a female Slider (Trachemys scripta). The particular subspecies (if you believe in that sort of thing) looks to be a yellowbelly slider (T. s. scripta). She was probably looking for a spot to lay her eggs or had finished and was heading back to her pond. I'd release her in a nearby pond/river/lake. While the injury looks nasty, I have little doubt she'll recover from it - I've got a turtle that had an injury almost exactly like that (nose was bitten off) and she recovered just fine with no help from me. I wouldn't entrust her to a wildlife rehab center - if its anything like the one's I've worked at its run by people who love bunnies and chipmunks and cute and fuzzy things and don't know jack about reptiles - the end result being that the turtles and other reptiles are severely neglected and not properly cared for. I would definitely have no hesitation about putting her back - trust me, she'll be just fine. ~Mike

I can't ID any of them, sorry, but I can tell you those last cacti are planted wayyyyy to deeply inside those pots! Cacti prefer full sun, those poor things can't even see the light they're so low down. The soil needs to be around 1cm below the rim, always. Gill