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Maggie Cummings
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Well, ya'll know the story of Bob's escapes and his new fence. We are now $900 into this fence, he discovered he could push on my house and ram my house and his continual beating up of my house was making me crazy. So we had to have the fence guys back out to build another section to keep Bob away from my house...
So they showed up and built another section but that created a corner which we had avoided in the original fence. So now I have a corner in my new tortoise fence and Bob discovers it because it's right where he has escaped several times before and you know King Robert III never forgets...
he slept in this day. I love how he looks in his sleeping box...
here he is marching around his yard...
and munching on the clover that's just now coming up...
oh the corner...
Bob uses corners to his advantage...
he can almost see over this fence...
the problem here is that he stands on his back feet then goes into tippie toe mode and falls on his back. That scares me and makes me so nervous that I couldn't think to take a picture of him on his back. I run over right away and turn him over. But maybe I should just leave him laying there...
look at what he is doing to this fence...
He is ruining this fence and will be thru this plank before long. Ethan, the 11 yr old from next door, and I put up a big piece of wood to bar Bob from the corner. But we held it in place with stakes that help Bob stand up. What a horrid tortoise he is. My friend in Montana has 3 Sulcata and her tort fence is wire panels held together with baling wire and zip ties, Bob would be thru it in less than 60 seconds. Her tortoises are happy.
I know several people with Sulcata and lousy fences and their tortoises don't try to escape all the time. My sister's Dudley lives in an area with a small wooden fence that Bob would be over in 60 seconds.
Bob has the whole yard now and I have one lousy flower bed and yet he continually tries to escape. He walks the perimeter testing it every few feet looking for a weak spot. He has good graze and a good sized area to walk around. Now granted it's not a few acres like Tom, but it's all I have. He has basically kicked me out of my own yard and still is not satisfied with his area...what's wrong with him? Is he so hard wired to escape he won't ever forget? He's a miserable tortoise to have and right now I'd pay someone to take him...
Look at his funny bumpy nose, how can I stay mad at that sweet face...the jerk!
So they showed up and built another section but that created a corner which we had avoided in the original fence. So now I have a corner in my new tortoise fence and Bob discovers it because it's right where he has escaped several times before and you know King Robert III never forgets...
he slept in this day. I love how he looks in his sleeping box...
here he is marching around his yard...
and munching on the clover that's just now coming up...
oh the corner...
Bob uses corners to his advantage...
he can almost see over this fence...
the problem here is that he stands on his back feet then goes into tippie toe mode and falls on his back. That scares me and makes me so nervous that I couldn't think to take a picture of him on his back. I run over right away and turn him over. But maybe I should just leave him laying there...
look at what he is doing to this fence...
He is ruining this fence and will be thru this plank before long. Ethan, the 11 yr old from next door, and I put up a big piece of wood to bar Bob from the corner. But we held it in place with stakes that help Bob stand up. What a horrid tortoise he is. My friend in Montana has 3 Sulcata and her tort fence is wire panels held together with baling wire and zip ties, Bob would be thru it in less than 60 seconds. Her tortoises are happy.
I know several people with Sulcata and lousy fences and their tortoises don't try to escape all the time. My sister's Dudley lives in an area with a small wooden fence that Bob would be over in 60 seconds.
Bob has the whole yard now and I have one lousy flower bed and yet he continually tries to escape. He walks the perimeter testing it every few feet looking for a weak spot. He has good graze and a good sized area to walk around. Now granted it's not a few acres like Tom, but it's all I have. He has basically kicked me out of my own yard and still is not satisfied with his area...what's wrong with him? Is he so hard wired to escape he won't ever forget? He's a miserable tortoise to have and right now I'd pay someone to take him...
Look at his funny bumpy nose, how can I stay mad at that sweet face...the jerk!
