This afternoon I was working in the yard, and I thought I'd rake out our California Desert Tortoises hide. In doing so I moderately changed the entrance hole with the desire of keeping out potential future flooding. We've had some real gully-washers here in our high desert this summer and a fair amount of flooding has occurred, bringing dirt into the hide. What I found interesting is that one of our darlings immediately eschewed the existing hide and began digging a new one. Ha! I thought that I was being helpful, but I guess not so much. After digging for about half an hour, I fed the spoiled brat and placed him back in the old borough for the night. I wonder if the digging will continue again in the morning? This has been typical in the early Spring, but now, as we approach Fall?. How has your experience been?