23-03-2014, 08:59 PM | #1 |
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Tortoise gone from garden
I think my one of my lovely baby torts was taken from my garden on Thursday by a fox .has anyone else had a fox take a tortoise .he was about 6 inches long . Gutted .
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23-03-2014, 09:08 PM | #2 |
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Oh no. I'm so sorry!! x
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23-03-2014, 09:11 PM | #3 |
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So sorry to hear that one of your torties has gone missing, that's awful for you. Was this during the day? I have never (touch wood) had one of mine disappear from their garden during the day and at night they are all in the greenhouse. 6" would be quite a big tort and I would have thought fairly heavy - I do so hope he turns up for you
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I hope he turns up. What makes you think that a Fox took him? Did you see it?
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23-03-2014, 09:23 PM | #5 |
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It's turned pretty cold again, it could have dug down.
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I'm REALLY sorry about ut Tort man. I've feared this recently
There's a Fox lurking around my garden. I found him right ON TOP of my Tort one day and I ran out yelling! I got lucky. But yeah - 6 inches is quite big for a fox. I think that'w why my guy didn't get abducted. I'd check for digging too. FYI - You can get (for real cheap on Ebay) sonic Fox deterrents. I haven't had it long enough to know the full results (takes a few weeks to work and I still see the buggar around night time,) but It's defo made a difference in the daytime.... Wolvie |
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That's just awful! I hope Wendy is right and your tort has just dug down.
I'm scared of foxes in the garden too, especially as I have chickens. All my animal enclosures - torts, rabbit, guineas and the chickens - have lids and anti-tunnelling skirts to prevent foxes from digging under.
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i would like to echo what others have suggested that he has dug in somewhere to escape the cold weather.
i would be on hands and knees with a pair of gardening gloves on turning over the enclosure,no trowel or spade just in case he's cut in half !!!! |
24-03-2014, 04:39 PM | #9 |
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I agree, I have dug around the outside enclosure for Tyler when he was smaller, dug in places until I saw the back of his shell x
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One of mine, a mature but stunted growth female Herman got up from hibernation two weeks ago, crept out of the greenhouse & disappeared! I have been searching for her, turned every bit of soil over in greenhouse & scoured garden especially as for the last week night temps have been subzero, no sign. Then yesterday afternoon I was just leaving their enclosure when I noticed something yellow in the soil!!! Top of her shell! Goodness knows what made her come higher as it was 5 degrees yesterday but brilliant sunshine, she was in a corner protected I guess by cold frame bricks, fence & a tree stump I found where she had been dug in at the base of hardy geraniums .... the same ones I had searched earlier in week!!
I had about 4 of my smaller Hermans disappear in their area back end of last year & it took me ages to find them, they seem masters at the disappearing act!! |
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