Hi Terese:
Please try to not take thoughtless posts to heart. Most of us understand and sympathize with what you've gone through, and we know you are just as interested in knowing what happened to the baby as the rest of us, if not more so.
I'm not sure if this is true of all rodents, but opossum can collapse their bones so that they can fit through very small holes.
You've made a beautiful habitat, and you thought your animals were going to be safe in there, but now I think you should bring them all in at night and put them back out in the a.m. Just a cardboard box for the night, no need to set up indoor habitats. Once a predator has found a meal in a certain place, he'll keep coming back until there is not more food there.
You can also place a Have-a-heart trap inside the tortoise pen with canned cat food as bait. Hopefully this will catch whatever it is that has harmed your baby.
Please try to not take thoughtless posts to heart. Most of us understand and sympathize with what you've gone through, and we know you are just as interested in knowing what happened to the baby as the rest of us, if not more so.
I'm not sure if this is true of all rodents, but opossum can collapse their bones so that they can fit through very small holes.
You've made a beautiful habitat, and you thought your animals were going to be safe in there, but now I think you should bring them all in at night and put them back out in the a.m. Just a cardboard box for the night, no need to set up indoor habitats. Once a predator has found a meal in a certain place, he'll keep coming back until there is not more food there.
You can also place a Have-a-heart trap inside the tortoise pen with canned cat food as bait. Hopefully this will catch whatever it is that has harmed your baby.
