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Old 12-06-2015, 10:15 PM   #1
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Default The reason I keep my torts locked up.

This walks past the end of my garden, several times a day and we were about 3 meters away.

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Old 12-06-2015, 10:20 PM   #2
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Ooooh that's a bit of a worry! I bet he would like to get at your birds too.
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Old 12-06-2015, 10:25 PM   #3
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Ooooh that's a bit of a worry! I bet he would like to get at your birds too.
I don't know if it was him but one of them had one of our chickens a few years back. She survived with a lot of stitching, antibiotics and money. Lucky we came home when we did.
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Old 12-06-2015, 11:00 PM   #4
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I don't know if it was him but one of them had one of our chickens a few years back. She survived with a lot of stitching, antibiotics and money. Lucky we came home when we did.
Oh yes, I remember that. It was like a blood bath in your garden. Lucky that she survived!
I've got anti-tunnel skirts around the chicken run, guinea-pig runs and the tort enclosures. I always bring the torts in at night but as you show in that photo, foxes are about in the daytime too, especially when hungry.
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Indeed, I would too, they are very cheeky and will try anything.
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Old 13-06-2015, 12:08 PM   #6
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since our local council gave us wheelie bins i expected the fox population to drop,nothing of the sort,still around every night.
its the two legged predators i am more concerned about.
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Old 13-06-2015, 06:46 PM   #7
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Oh i can see why you keep them locked up i do the same as we just dont know whats about also been reading about alot of torts going missing this year too x
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Oh i can see why you keep them locked up i do the same as we just dont know whats about also been reading about alot of torts going missing this year too x
We have cctv too, anything or anyone steals our torts we'll know who or what and hopefully stop them before they get away.
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We get them all the time in the front but they never come in the back as the dogs have free run into the garden.
I was sat in the lounge the other day and looked out and there was a stag muntjac stood in the middle of the lawn.
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We get them all the time in the front but they never come in the back as the dogs have free run into the garden.
I was sat in the lounge the other day and looked out and there was a stag muntjac stood in the middle of the lawn.
Very nice too! My son would love that!
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