Guys,
My sulcatas have their indoor enclosure, and last Saturday Morning, I placed my 3 juvy sulcatas outside for some sunshine, and I am just using a temporary enclosure, that is some kind of foldable type that is being used for Roosters, and then after an hour, I moved the enclosure to one that have half shaded part so they can have some place for cool off, then I came back to check after 15 mins and I can only find 2! 1 Escaped!, I found out that the land on that part is not level, thus there is a way for the tortoise to escape!, EWe practically searched the whole garden, the whole afternoon and we didn't find it. My fear is that it was taken my a cat or a bird, but I'm on a city, there is no large bird, so the only suspect was a cat that it could been took it, so I searched all the premises and even up to neighbors backyard as the cat might just dropped it off, or something.... It was a bad day for me, I lost my first sulcata baby, then already having a head ache over this incident...
Late in the afternoon, to satisfy my desire to protect the other two or for this to not to happen again, I rushed to a Builders Depot, and bought materials for a better outdoor enclosure... so in short I built one, an 8ft x 4ft with bricks and then metal wire mesh on top.. pretty solid..
Then the following morning, as we are finishing the enclosure, I am looking for a huge block of stone to be placed on one of the side to guard the mesh and then at the side of the huge stone, is the lost Juvy Sulcata! We have found it! I am very thrilled and happy, It's a feeling of a lost family member and then came back!
We have found that the sulcata found an old small hole near the ground, that we actually searched but not dig enough, and he came out to feed the morning...
I will post pics later of this sulcata and the the old and their new outdoor enclosure.
My sulcatas have their indoor enclosure, and last Saturday Morning, I placed my 3 juvy sulcatas outside for some sunshine, and I am just using a temporary enclosure, that is some kind of foldable type that is being used for Roosters, and then after an hour, I moved the enclosure to one that have half shaded part so they can have some place for cool off, then I came back to check after 15 mins and I can only find 2! 1 Escaped!, I found out that the land on that part is not level, thus there is a way for the tortoise to escape!, EWe practically searched the whole garden, the whole afternoon and we didn't find it. My fear is that it was taken my a cat or a bird, but I'm on a city, there is no large bird, so the only suspect was a cat that it could been took it, so I searched all the premises and even up to neighbors backyard as the cat might just dropped it off, or something.... It was a bad day for me, I lost my first sulcata baby, then already having a head ache over this incident...
Late in the afternoon, to satisfy my desire to protect the other two or for this to not to happen again, I rushed to a Builders Depot, and bought materials for a better outdoor enclosure... so in short I built one, an 8ft x 4ft with bricks and then metal wire mesh on top.. pretty solid..
Then the following morning, as we are finishing the enclosure, I am looking for a huge block of stone to be placed on one of the side to guard the mesh and then at the side of the huge stone, is the lost Juvy Sulcata! We have found it! I am very thrilled and happy, It's a feeling of a lost family member and then came back!
We have found that the sulcata found an old small hole near the ground, that we actually searched but not dig enough, and he came out to feed the morning...
I will post pics later of this sulcata and the the old and their new outdoor enclosure.