I've had this big, motherloving copper colored salamander or lizard or whatever in my house for over a week. No idea how it got in, but it's always been poking its head around in the open before darting off as it sees me. I've kept a tufferware set out just in case I got the chance. It paid off. I don't know why it didn't try to run away at first, my guess was that it was starving and didn't have the energy.
I saw it just now in my kitchen and plopped the bottom on top of it.
I'm holding the bottom down in this picture because the beastly son of a bitch was pushing it everywhere around in the kitchen.
I slid the lid under it, moved it to the counter.
It was successfully transplanted to the outside where it darted off.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED