I have eastern box turtles and I have never even see one try to dig out. it must take a turtle a very long time ( days at least ) to dig a hole large enough form them to get out, so you would have lots of time to stop them. However I have watched them climb up and out of an Enclosure that i thought was impossiable for a turle to climb out of in just a matter of seconds. And when the turtle reached the top he did not Hesitate

for even a second he just pushed himself right off, and the drop was about a foot and a half. He them picked himself up and started to walk away. Years ago (like 50) when I was a kid I used to find box turtles in my neighborhood each summmer. I would build an enclosure for them out of chicken fence and the next day they would be gone. People always told me that they must have dug there way out, but I could never find the whole they dug. Now I know that the turtles did not dig out they climbed up the chicken wire and made there escape that way. If any one has had a box turtle "dig" out i would like to hear about it.






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Jack

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