Hi Amy,

A hungry sulcata will eat just about anything as you are finding out now. When I lived in CT in the early 1970's I had the first adults in the US and they literally ate me out of house and home during the winter months. Don't know where you live, but if you have access to pumpkins, they love them. Also the green and yellow summer squash that end up looking like small baseball bats are no problem for them. With the above items, just smash them on the ground to break them open, and the tortoise will do the rest. If you wish, you could cut them open, but smashing works fine. You can also keep one entertained for a fairly good amount of time by giving it a big head of cabbage.

I used wheat straw as bedding in those days, and often heard them crunching it up and eating it when they were hungry if there wasn't any other food available.

Also, your tortoise could break that chicken wire and escape if you aren't pretty vigilant. I know this from experience. One of my females about 13" long pushed a hole right through my similar fencing to get to some apples which had fallen on the other side. There was a piece of the fencing laying on the ground 5-6 feet away totally broken off from the rest of the fence, leaving a nice hole. Several days later, I found her about a mile and a half away.

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