Recent content by TurtlePete2015

Pete my Russian lives outside during the day in a large enclosure and loves to roam. He goes into a dog crate and burrows for the night which I go and latch the door shut for security - the dog crate is kept outside in his enclosure and he loves it, sometimes I find him napping in it during the...

I'm in shock he's back, feels a healthy weight and not harmed! Good news we identified how he got out so I feel so much better knowing he's safe this time in his enclosure!

I would like to update that it's been 42 days since Pete went missing and he was found today one block north of our house!! Thanks to some signs we posted, we were called and he was returned without a scratch! What an adventure he had!

Good call on the animal shelter. I'll call them in the morning! Thanks!

Unfortunately I had to head out of town (bad timing I know) so our house guest who has tortoise sat before will be on the look out. So I can't post any photos of the enclosure. During the day he lives in our fenced garden. Wood fencing that's 3 feet tall and 4 inches a apart. The bottom 12...

How long could he be hiding? I'm going on 24 hours now . . . He hid once before but just for the night and came back out in the morning

Seems that my male russian has escaped! I am stumped on how he got out since there isn't any dig marks or holes. I thought maybe he just buried himself but today since he hasn't made an appearance in really getting worried! Any specific things I should search my yard for of what to look for on...

I was wondering who had the username is was trying! The kids named him Pete!

This made me laugh so hard! Seriously Pete is great with my kids (3 years and 1.5 years)

Thank you for the links!

Hi! Pete's a new addition and our first tortoise. He's a Russian that was gifted to us. So we're learning on the fly. He came from a pet store and they are guessing he's 1.5-2 years old. Any way I can confirm his age? The pet store said he was to young to sex but I did a little research online...