Take a look at this picture:
A pleasing shot, right? A rain forest tortoise enjoying a bit of sun in the rain forest, right? WRONG!!!
This is the Mutt half of Mutt and Jeff, two intergrade tortoises that were given back to me by the buyer after some years because of a divorce. And the problem with the picture is that Mutt is in the box turtle pen...NOT in the rain forest!!
Here is a shot of the inside of the rain forest fence:
Each board is appx. 5 1/2 inches wide, so that fence up to the space near the top is about 22 or 23 inches high. Mutt is too thick to fit through the space, so he'd have to go over the top.
Here's a shot behind a bush where the top board has been broken down:
And this is a shot where a partial fence inside the enclosure makes a "V" in front of the grape vine. I have caught Mutt at the top of this fence eating the grape leaves:
Ok, so once he's over the Rain Forest fence, wherever that might have occurred, he would land in the young desert tortoise area:
Its hard to see, but this is where he escaped from last time, so I put up a horizontal piece of plywood over the outside of the pen and its about 18" wide. I'm pretty sure he couldn't escape from here. So if he went into the non-inhabited area:
He would either get stuck in the leopard pen which is surrounded on three sides by unsurmountable sides, or he would have made his escape out the front:
This area is also "secured" (HA!) by a horizontal board, however this board is only a few inches and there's a space at one end that I THINK might have been the culprit:
A pleasing shot, right? A rain forest tortoise enjoying a bit of sun in the rain forest, right? WRONG!!!
This is the Mutt half of Mutt and Jeff, two intergrade tortoises that were given back to me by the buyer after some years because of a divorce. And the problem with the picture is that Mutt is in the box turtle pen...NOT in the rain forest!!
Here is a shot of the inside of the rain forest fence:
Each board is appx. 5 1/2 inches wide, so that fence up to the space near the top is about 22 or 23 inches high. Mutt is too thick to fit through the space, so he'd have to go over the top.
Here's a shot behind a bush where the top board has been broken down:
And this is a shot where a partial fence inside the enclosure makes a "V" in front of the grape vine. I have caught Mutt at the top of this fence eating the grape leaves:
Ok, so once he's over the Rain Forest fence, wherever that might have occurred, he would land in the young desert tortoise area:
Its hard to see, but this is where he escaped from last time, so I put up a horizontal piece of plywood over the outside of the pen and its about 18" wide. I'm pretty sure he couldn't escape from here. So if he went into the non-inhabited area:
He would either get stuck in the leopard pen which is surrounded on three sides by unsurmountable sides, or he would have made his escape out the front:
This area is also "secured" (HA!) by a horizontal board, however this board is only a few inches and there's a space at one end that I THINK might have been the culprit: