REWARD - MISSING RADIATED SUBADULT - LAKE WORTH, FL (now FOUND!!)

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Wonderful news!! That must have been one big happy reunion. So happy for you!!
 

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Oh my gosh I can't believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is so awesome! I am so happy for you! Yay, yay, hooray, praise God!!! Pictures, pictures!!!!!
 

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I'm so happy for you! The longest one of my tortoises has been gone is 3 days. And I was a wreck. Now that you know that the tortoise wasn't stolen you need to figure out how he got out of his enclosure... When mine went missing I wasn't sure what happened. When I found her I figured out what happened. She was on the other side of the chain link fence so she had to have gone UNDER both the chain link fence and her enclosure fence where they butted up together to get on the other side of it. I don't put them in that enclosure anymore...
 

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1.jpg 2.jpg I CAN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER!! And I love everyone's enthusiasm, thank you AGAIN & AGAIN!!!

First time I've walked the dogs in 5 months and not been preoccupied looking...thinking...and sometimes disturbing thoughts like "maybe the vegetation truck picked her up and squashed her or burned her or shredded her..." YUP! Sad but true...where is she?? Will she show up? I even called her name out loud (no one heard me and thought I was crazy but the dogs).

So! I do NOT have a chain link fence. I have a 6 foot wooden fence completely surround my property except for a large double-door gate. It is through this gate that in May that I dragged an insane amount of dead hedge (let's not get started on how my neighbor's yardman poisoned my ground-to-sky night-blooming jasmine hedge). Although I was VERY careful, I never saw LaBella after that day so obviously I was an idiot. *NOTE: LOVED the suggestion about the 2" x 4" across the ground as a temporary tortoise barrier for when the gate's open...I've placed one there permanently, thank you!*

Anyway, she's back, HALLELUJAH! A couple pix from Sunday night...haven't had time to take any since...

You Forum Friends ROCK! Thank you so VERY much!

PATTY
 

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Wowwww!!!! I am so happy for you and i am so happy that i still following your thread so i always get notification when someone write something.
Hey it means i am not giving up too!! And waiting someday you will say exactly like what you just said...
YOU FOUND HER!!!

Do you have any idea whether she is growing or stunted? I assume she was searching his own food in the wild.
 

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WOW! Congratulations Patty! I'm so happy for you. I know you're feeling on top of the world, and you should. Your LaBella is is absolutely stunning, and is clearly very street savvy. That's an incredibly busy area, I'm sooooo happy she was able to negotiate it. We all love happy endings. Welcome Home LaBella!!!
 

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View attachment 221185 View attachment 221186 I CAN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER!! And I love everyone's enthusiasm, thank you AGAIN & AGAIN!!!

First time I've walked the dogs in 5 months and not been preoccupied looking...thinking...and sometimes disturbing thoughts like "maybe the vegetation truck picked her up and squashed her or burned her or shredded her..." YUP! Sad but true...where is she?? Will she show up? I even called her name out loud (no one heard me and thought I was crazy but the dogs).

So! I do NOT have a chain link fence. I have a 6 foot wooden fence completely surround my property except for a large double-door gate. It is through this gate that in May that I dragged an insane amount of dead hedge (let's not get started on how my neighbor's yardman poisoned my ground-to-sky night-blooming jasmine hedge). Although I was VERY careful, I never saw LaBella after that day so obviously I was an idiot. *NOTE: LOVED the suggestion about the 2" x 4" across the ground as a temporary tortoise barrier for when the gate's open...I've placed one there permanently, thank you!*

Anyway, she's back, HALLELUJAH! A couple pix from Sunday night...haven't had time to take any since...

You Forum Friends ROCK! Thank you so VERY much!

PATTY

How did I miss this thread? Several weeks ago some friends of mine here in Lake Worth (I've lived here pretty much my whole life) told me they saw a flier about a missing tortoise and wondered if it was mine. I assumed it was yet another sulcata...
WRONG!
Patty, I'm so thrilled to learn that you found your radiated tortoise and am shocked that she crossed Dixie Hwy---unharmed!
I lost a prize male Brazilian red-foot tortoise back in '04 after Hurricane Jeanne wrecked my fence gate that I didn't realize was damaged until after I put my tortoises back outside. Never found him, but I know the feelings you experienced all too well.
Sadly, I assume that Little Dude crawled into one of the huge trash piles that were all over Lake Worth and then was picked up later by the trash crews.
Sorry for the late response but I'm happy to learn of a fellow tortoise keeper here by the beach!
 

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Omg! What a marvelous news!!! I’ve been off the Forum for a while due to being preoccupied with child’s illness, and today the Forum app icon flushed in my face and I got on to let my Friends know “I’m still here!” and the forum opens to this thread! What a great coincidence! I often thought about you and Labella, hoping you’d keep searching. And you did! And you’ve found her!!!!! I can’t tell you how happy I am to hear this! It has truly made my day! My Tucker was tiny, only 7 months old and went missing in February which often is the coldest month of the year in this area of Texas. He was gone for 4 weeks!!!!! And I wasn’t giving up my hope of finding him either. 5 months is so much longer. And crossing Dixie!!! Wow! I used to live in Lighthouse Point and later Boca Raton, little South from you, and know all about Dixie Hwy. incredible! Miracle! I strongly believe that all the positive energy that many people generate and put out by prayer, or meditation, or just thinking/talking positively joining with you in your search helps. So glad you turned here and to other social media for support! Congratulations on finding LaBella!!!! Very very happy for you!!!![emoji173]️[emoji217][emoji173]️
 

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Greetings....just another CONGRATULATIONS on the return! I wonder if some kind soul or two might have assisted your tort across the Highway. Was recently on Anastasia Island, Fl, when we spotted a nice large Florida gopher tortose about 1/3 of the way across the A1A.... we stopped, slowly went around as did others.
  • Glad your buddy was found and returned!
 

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LaBella is indeed "The Beauty" - what a fabulous looking animal!!!
SO glad she is back safe and sound!!! (Even if she was ugly, which she is not.):)
Have you weighed her, can you compare her weight when you found her with her weight before she went away? That would be interesting.
 

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