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Chuckles is 14. We live in Arizona, too.
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I've posted a couple of pictures. More to follow. I'm also in AZ. Small world.
I like your avatar. I have 4 baby Arizona Desert Tortoises and they often wind up in that position. Does your tortoise fall on his back? It happens to mine when they try to climb, they fall over backwards. They can right themselves but it still worries me.
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I'm not going to say that he doesn't fall onto his back, because then it'll happen. LOL
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Lucky Chuckles has a 20' x 40' habitat to call his home. The first photo is from Google Earth, and although somewhat fuzzy, still shows the size. The second photo is of the front of the habitat. The fencing is bamboo woven into chain link.
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Very nice. Did you make it your self?
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Looks like Arizona, where I live. I have 2 African Spurred Tortoises. Both very amazing.
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Yes,
I made the habitat myself. It started out small, but keep adding to it.
That's sooo neat! Your tortoise must love having all that area to roam around in. My tortoise babies, which I've only had for a couple of months, have some serious pyramiding going on. I was told it's because they were kept too dry by the people I got them from. So I've been soaking them more than I was and also misting them with water several times a day. Your tortoise has a nice, smooth shell. Did you soak and mist him when he was a baby? Did you keep him inside until he got to be a few years old?
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Very nice
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Chuckles was never misted, or soaked, when he was a baby. He was put into the habitat to live as nature intended. Instinct tells Chuckles when he should seek a moist place, and when he needs to be dry. The only exception is when I spray water on the compost pile and he is napping there beneath the surface. He'll poke up his head and look at me as if to say, "Who turned on the rain?"
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I live in Pinal County in AZ.
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More photos of Chuckles' home. 
I'm sure he likes it 
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Habitats do not have to be boring, but there's an awful lot of stuff in mine. LOLLol! I love the toilet
Your tort is beautiful and your enclosure is fun and huge
Keep posting pics! I love them!
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So where is Chuckles going? 
It's like Disneyland for tortoises. LOL
I can't get over how nice and smooth his shell is and for never having been soaked or misted, amazing! Maybe that you kept him outside all the time in such a large and diverse area where he could move about as he would in the wild? Arizona Game and Fish agrees with how you're doing it because they say, "in much of Arizona, desert tortoises should be kept outdoors all year." But not all of us can have a huge setup like yours.
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A couple of Chuckles' baby pictures. 
