Outdoor Enclosure - const. still underway

[zoogrl]

Hello! I've been busy with wedding plans but made this weekend all about Betty's outdoor enclosure. My lovely fiance took me to home depot & patiently wheeled about the flat bed cart & then loaded up the bricks I decided on, got them home & then let me put them how I want them. They are not in the ground yet, we will be doing that later (he said something about needing a nap, geez!) and also will be working on capping the corners & a roof/lid to keep other critters out. It is 4 & 1/2 feet by 8 ft, and I plan on planting a few things in there for her too after the bricks get put in. But for today we got a start on it and she got to spend all afternoon outside being a tortoise Here are a few pics, I will try to post a video too.

 

[jaizei]

Very nice.

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

Very nice.

 

[dmarcus]

nice and simple my type of outdoor enclosure..

 

[Yvonne G]

It looks pretty nice, and very roomy, but I'm a little worried the sides might not be tall enough. Also, that one section looks like it may fall over allowing Betty to escape.

Do you have a date set for the wedding?

 

[ChiKat]

She is one of the prettiest Russians I have ever seen. SO unique!! I love her big eyes too

 

[zoogrl]

I stayed out there with her today, we will bury the stones a ways to stabilize them before she's left out unattended. We are also going to get a roof for it before she's left out by herself. That's on the honey do list for tomorrow I've thought about the height part too, will see how it looks after we start getting them in the ground. If we have to redo it we will. The bricks were only $20 for the whole lot of them and can always take them back if it's not going to work. Thank you for watching out for things my excitement could miss

Wedding date is August 13! Fast approaching and I'm getting very excited

 

[lynnedit]

That is a good price. I wonder if you could secure them on top of another layer of something else to get some height?
You may want to re route the gutter pipe, but there are flexible attachments to do that, shouldn't be a problem.
Looks like a nice, sunny area!
your tort is adorable and I am sure very happy to be outside!

 

[zoogrl]

I didn't think about the guttering, I will add that to the list - Thanks!