animal awareness

So yesterday was animal awareness day for me.
In the span of about an hour I saw:
a chipmunk cross the road and stop 1/2 way; so I stopped until it continued on.
a cat running in a yard (I thought it was going into the street but it detoured at the last minute).
a toad in the road. It was at a 4-way intersection and I pulled up right next to it.
It sat completely still and so then I stuck on my hazards, veered the car behind me to go around, and picked up the toad (well, after a couple of hops) and put him in the grass.
I feel like this is the natural thing anyone would do (I mean, it was at a slow stop intersection not in the middle of the highway) but my hairdresser disagreed.
I then told her about when I did something similar a couple of years ago, only it was on a back road highway and instead of a toad it was a large snapping turtle. (I dropped it when it tried to get my finger, but evenso, it was much closer to the shoulder and headed towards grass!)