Dave CH
Member
I just had thought...(rare)... you are going to some lengths to make it easier to catch a wayward tortoise...why not use that very same energy and knowledge to make his pen escape proof?
No pen for the big guys maggie3fan. They have the run of a reasonably big area of garden, with lots of open ground but a lot of cover too. So it can take (the two of us) up to half an hour to find them if they've settled down for the night. Or, on rare occasions, you just don't find them until the morning.
We had to come home from vacation (not too far) a year and a half ago because our "sitter" couldn't find the male.
The entire area is escape proof. It's just finding them in there that can be a struggle some days.
That's why we're keen on a radio emitter system.