Ron&Em&Koko
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Hello TortoiseForum!
Myself and my partner have lost Koko our 5 year old Horsefield. She's been missing for over a week now and we assume she somehow made her escape from our backyard, since then we have had most of our friends and neighbours come out to help with the search, we have plastered posters throughout our town, we have been to each house above and below us to let everyone knows, a lady we met online bought her sniffer dog Dodge over to search and we another lady we met online has borrowed us her thermal camera, I have even set up a field came in places I think she might be.
For some context our back garden backs out onto a huge actual horse field(ironic?), this backs onto some marshland and to the right is small wood. Our back garden directly faces the marshland and if Koko hand't taken to the right or left I assume she would bound forwards and come to the marshland. Now, I wouldn't have thought that she would stick around in here as burrowing would lead to water or sludge. However, the sniffer dog led us to this area... We have suited up and been in full hunt mode through this marsh, I set up the trail cam and left strawberries out over night - this attracted a pretty hungry rat, but no Koko.
When using the thermal camera we checked our neighbours tortoise(George) to see how he would show up, it picked him up so we assumed we could hopefully find Koko. We have been through the wood with this and across the whole field, there are literally TOO many places for her to hide. Aside being really cool; it seems that heat signatures are hard to see through leaves and trees... this is where I reckon Koko would love to hide or burrow.
We are pretty exhausted by this point, it may simply benefit to hear some stories of people who have lost them and get any advice of how to cope with this horrible loss as things are seeming a little futile.
Other than that if you have ANY advice we will definitely try it!
Thank you <3
Myself and my partner have lost Koko our 5 year old Horsefield. She's been missing for over a week now and we assume she somehow made her escape from our backyard, since then we have had most of our friends and neighbours come out to help with the search, we have plastered posters throughout our town, we have been to each house above and below us to let everyone knows, a lady we met online bought her sniffer dog Dodge over to search and we another lady we met online has borrowed us her thermal camera, I have even set up a field came in places I think she might be.
For some context our back garden backs out onto a huge actual horse field(ironic?), this backs onto some marshland and to the right is small wood. Our back garden directly faces the marshland and if Koko hand't taken to the right or left I assume she would bound forwards and come to the marshland. Now, I wouldn't have thought that she would stick around in here as burrowing would lead to water or sludge. However, the sniffer dog led us to this area... We have suited up and been in full hunt mode through this marsh, I set up the trail cam and left strawberries out over night - this attracted a pretty hungry rat, but no Koko.
When using the thermal camera we checked our neighbours tortoise(George) to see how he would show up, it picked him up so we assumed we could hopefully find Koko. We have been through the wood with this and across the whole field, there are literally TOO many places for her to hide. Aside being really cool; it seems that heat signatures are hard to see through leaves and trees... this is where I reckon Koko would love to hide or burrow.
We are pretty exhausted by this point, it may simply benefit to hear some stories of people who have lost them and get any advice of how to cope with this horrible loss as things are seeming a little futile.
Other than that if you have ANY advice we will definitely try it!
Thank you <3