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RE: Welcome to TortoiseForum.org !
Yvonne,
Thank you for the quick reply. I am still hoping to find Buddy. My family thinks I am nuts, but there's always a chance! He actually climbed out. I had him in a kiddie pool so he couldn't dig out, and I had refreshed his soil and moved things around and I guess there was on extra shovel full of dirt that enabled his great escape. There is a huge area of open land behind our yard, so I am hoping that even if I don't find him he will be ok out there. I miss the little guy though. George is a cutie, much smaller and very very friendly. Obviously, he's an escape artist too, so I'm watching him closely!
Maddie
emysemys said:Hi Maddie: Welcome to the forum. I see no reason why George can't be happy in Arizona. Just provide him with lots of shade and maybe take him inside on those 100 degree days! I bought those little individual misters from the hardware store...the ones that connect up to the hose, and I have one in each tortoise pen. On those really hot days, I turn on the misters. It brings down the temp in that area very nicely.
As you've discovered with Buddy, they are escape artists, so be sure to build him an escape-proof pen. They dig really well, and they push the dirt behind them, covering up the hole so you can't tell where they've been digging.
Yvonne
Yvonne,
Thank you for the quick reply. I am still hoping to find Buddy. My family thinks I am nuts, but there's always a chance! He actually climbed out. I had him in a kiddie pool so he couldn't dig out, and I had refreshed his soil and moved things around and I guess there was on extra shovel full of dirt that enabled his great escape. There is a huge area of open land behind our yard, so I am hoping that even if I don't find him he will be ok out there. I miss the little guy though. George is a cutie, much smaller and very very friendly. Obviously, he's an escape artist too, so I'm watching him closely!
Maddie