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Old 26-11-2015, 03:29 PM   #2
CherryBrandy
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definitely look at some enclosures for ideas, lots of good ones on this site or add tortoise pen/ enclosure to internet and choose images (sorry if sucking eggs !). Horsfields love to dig. You mustn't under estimate a Horsfields ability to climb and dig down - metres....upon metre. even my smallest ones have moved heavy pots out the way - climbed up vertical walls, mesh, bricks (5 high), dug under thick heavy industrial wooden sleepers and come up the wider side of the garden and a first for me through a drain pipe buried into the earth. If you can ideally chicken wire a metre down, and lips on walls . triangles over corners and must above all else not hold the damp - so a good draining substrate on most of the area. I sound like I'm talking about some wild like creature that miraculously disappears after a Houdini style performance. Oh I am ! it is called a Horsfield tortoise ! CB
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