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hello well i have started getting an area of land ready for a pen for my tortoise and i plan on using cinder blocks for the walls so if anyone has pics of there tortoise pens that would be great it will help me design the pen for my tortoises .. thanks aaron

This is my outdoor pen. Its 3 by 12 feet and made from 2by10s. Unfortunately I needed to put a top on it because the torts are small and need to keep out crows, racoons, and possums. The photo was taken a few weeks ago so what it doesn't show are 3 additional hostas that have come up. It has 4 feet of dirt with cypress mulch to burrow into and hostas for cover. 4 feet of grass and 4 feet of sand. A total of 3 hides (one out when picture taken) a basking paver which is also the feeding area and a flower pot base for water. Hope that gives you ideas. Tom

Raccoons can be very clever resourceful little guys.
I know of cases where they learned to open locking top garbage cans. I hope you have some sort of latch or lock or ??? on your pen.
It looks good tho.

two latches with spring closures. I have used them on our shed for the garbage cans and the racoons haven't beaten them yet. Even my wife has trouble openning them. Tom

Sounds good Tom.
I just don't trust those racoons after they broke into my bearded lizard cage outside. They slide a latch to open the door. They promptly ripped off the top of head of my largest male.

The large pen houses 3 Hermanns & an Egyptian. I plan on adding a top but haven't gotten around to that yet so I keep the gate closed so dogs can't get after them.

This is the new pen for the Russians, a mean 5 year old male & a hatchling. The walls are made of Alumacor (corregated plastic sandwiched between aluminum) & are about 18" high. It was once a SHIPPING & RECEIVING sign. The inside edges are lined with rocks so they can't dig out.

a more expensive, but nice looking pen i used for my russians roughly 15x5x3 with a removable divider.

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1.3.3 Common Mud Turtles
0.0.2 R.E.S.
0.0.1 Y.B.S.
1.2 Russian Tortoises
0.1 Hamsters
3.0 Dogs
2.3 Family
3 Baby Muds