I hope your right and your monitor does not teach you a lesson.
Before saying very wrong, and being so offened see how your monitor does living in the cage for a few years.
If you say that is how it is equipped then good for you.
You would be suprised what a monitor can fit through, under, or around, but then again Ive been keeping them a long time, and have read thousands of comments from newer keepers who have had escapes through what they thought was inescapable. I know monitors such as albigs can rip through unprotected wood and other materials with their claws, even under a few feet of dirt (been there done it, learned from it).
I hope yours does not do so. Think about this, most of the others didnt think they were irresponsible owners, but theirs got away.
Even indoors in solid walled cages with secure doors, monitors get out, they are great to demonstrate weaknesses in caging.
Weather can cause your monitor lots of problems, I know most of the year in southern Fla it stays a great temp for monitor, but sometimes without warning it does not.
Feral predators, local dogs, local cats, feral pythons, feral ferrets, local kids, neighbors, birds of prey, are just some of the problems why chain link fencing is not so good for an outdoor monitor.
Do you have a heated hide box that can offer good temps if it drops to freezing or below? If not it needed to be in the cage before the monitor is kept in it. Ask FR about his outdoor caging, about his heated boxes, etc.
Like FR said, long before you ever attempt outdoor caging you should demonstrate the proper ability to master indoor caging, why most fail miserably with indoor caging, outdoors are very difficult in comparison. FRs outdoor cages have concrete bases under and around the entire cage, above ground a few feet, and underground several feet.
Ask Rob Faust about outdoor caging, he has had many escapes over the years, and mentioned some in his book about niles.
I wish you good luck, and hope any faults with your cage do not cause its demise or you to add to the escaped monitor problems in FLA.

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