My Russian Tortoise, Pistachio, has been missing now for a little less than a week now. He escaped his outside pen. I know that Russian Tortoises like to burrow, particularly deeper than other tortoises, which is good and bad; he is probably not even off of my property, but he will be hard to spot. I have no fear that he will die of natural causes, or heat or cold. I have heard many stories of tortoises surviving for years and being found, in fact a friend of mine lost a tortoise when she was a child, and she found it one year later under one of her shrubs. I have given flyers to every house abutting mine, and some even past that. Now that I have the area secure, and I know he will survive, I only have two fears, both make me want to find him quickly. One, is the fear of raccoons and foxes, I do not want them to find my tortoise before I do. The second thing is that my friend grew up in California, so the weather was good all year round (and so her tortoise survived). However, I live in New England. If I don't locate him before the winter, he may die. I have looked online for how to trap a tortoise, all of the suggestions said "put a hole next to the tortoise with bait and get it to fall in." Well the problem here is that I don't know where my tortoise is, so I can't put a hole somewhere and hope he falls in. So I have a few questions. Do I need a trap? What kind of trap should I use? Would a raccoon trap work? What kind of bait should I use? Thank you so much! Please help!!!