Froog
New Member
Hey y'all. I have silently surfed this forum for a long time before making an account. It had been a great resource for me many times! Sadly, I'm not here on the happiest of terms.
Clover, my large female russian tortoise went missing when she was let outside yesterday. I was out of the house at the time. My mom let her out on the driveway near the yard to graze and bask. She told my sister to put her back in the outdoor pen once she was done. It got busy and there was some confusion and Clover slipped off into the back yard unnoticed. Two hours later, we realized she was missing and my family and I scoured the yard looking for her. Yet, no luck. Today around 1:00 I checked the yard again and looked around the neighbor's backyards just to see if I could find her walking around. (I checked as far as 12 to 15 blocks away from our yard.)
We live on a half-acre lot with no fence, which backs up to a creek and we have neighbors on both sides of our house. We don't have a fence and neither do our next-door neighbors. I don't think she can cross the creek and she can't go very far to the right as a steep hill and rock wall separate the next house.
I'm going to:
-Check around her favorite hiding spots in our yard and the surrounding neighbor's yards.
-Put some treats out in our yard. (Strawberries etc...)
-Put up flyers and reach out on our neighborhood social media. (Nextdoor.)
Any suggestions you guys have? Could she have gone far? I don't know if Russian tortoises are more nomad-like/continually travelling tortoises or if she'll come back to the yard she recognizes.
If she has the chance, will she travel as far away as she can or stay nearby?
I'm worried that she will find a way past the creek and get lost in the hilly forest behind us. I'm also nervous about the road too.
I've read several missing tortoise stories with happy endings though, so I hope that I will find her!
Thanks y'all!
-Luke K
*I've added some photos as well.
Clover, my large female russian tortoise went missing when she was let outside yesterday. I was out of the house at the time. My mom let her out on the driveway near the yard to graze and bask. She told my sister to put her back in the outdoor pen once she was done. It got busy and there was some confusion and Clover slipped off into the back yard unnoticed. Two hours later, we realized she was missing and my family and I scoured the yard looking for her. Yet, no luck. Today around 1:00 I checked the yard again and looked around the neighbor's backyards just to see if I could find her walking around. (I checked as far as 12 to 15 blocks away from our yard.)
We live on a half-acre lot with no fence, which backs up to a creek and we have neighbors on both sides of our house. We don't have a fence and neither do our next-door neighbors. I don't think she can cross the creek and she can't go very far to the right as a steep hill and rock wall separate the next house.
I'm going to:
-Check around her favorite hiding spots in our yard and the surrounding neighbor's yards.
-Put some treats out in our yard. (Strawberries etc...)
-Put up flyers and reach out on our neighborhood social media. (Nextdoor.)
Any suggestions you guys have? Could she have gone far? I don't know if Russian tortoises are more nomad-like/continually travelling tortoises or if she'll come back to the yard she recognizes.
If she has the chance, will she travel as far away as she can or stay nearby?
I'm worried that she will find a way past the creek and get lost in the hilly forest behind us. I'm also nervous about the road too.
I've read several missing tortoise stories with happy endings though, so I hope that I will find her!
Thanks y'all!
-Luke K
*I've added some photos as well.