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Niki
at Mon Sep 15 09:22:12 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Niki ]
this is how ours is for now, still expandable but I would never
let him have total run of the yard. Reason is there are neighbors
on the other side of those privacy fences and privacy fences
aren't perfect. Somebody weed-wacking on the other side could
kill your animal, or even spraying some mess on the borders of
their yard. Plus dogs could be right there, and there's the
possibility of rain/erosion/digging making an opening big enough
to escape (mine's kinda big now for that).
Somebody just lost a tortoise (lost, as in wandered off) because
another person (lawn guy) left their gate open and it wandered out.
Well that's stupidity on their part having free-roaming yard tortoise
at the mercy of somebody else. What if the lawn guy had run it
over with a mower? Tortoises need to be protected and seperated
from dogs and people. There's only so much that you can do, but
simple stuff like locks and fences (and electric fences) are not
extreme just good sense. There was another person on the tortoise
forum that again blamed the yard guy for not putting a large
rock back in front of a hole in their fence, which allowed a small
stray dog to get in a maim a hatchling.
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pen inside yard... - Niki, Mon Sep 15 09:22:12 2003