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well, we live in south west louisiana and a box turtle has evidently made our home.. his. lol.

about 2 weeks ago we found the turtle on our back porch when we woke up... not really knowing anything about the turtle we just brought it to the ditch and thought it would go away. about 3 days later while watering the flowers i found the turtle again... this time near the koi pond. Well... this time we brought the turtle to the back of our property (about 4 acres from our home) and released it near the pond. Sunday night the turtle was found again... this time in our garden. Every day we get the turtle nad move it again... and it returns. For the past few days the turtle has lived in our garden eating a variety of bell peppers, egg plants, and cucumbers.

My mom has decided she may want to build a "turtle garden" and just keep the turtle around in an enclosed area instead of letting it keep tearing up her flower beds/garden... any suggestions?

i meant to say... adopted BY 3 toed box turtle...

put a fence around the garden?
boxies are oprotunists, and he's found heaven.
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we found out today that our neighbors released a box turtle about a month ago... we are thinking its the same one. they picked it up in arkansas when they had evacuated during the hurricane.

Where in LA do you live? I'm about an hour away from Lafayette.

Steven

im about an hour away from laffy as well.. lake charles area

heres one picture from today... not the best but he/she was enjoying the mealworm...

>>heres one picture from today... not the best but he/she was enjoying the mealworm...
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She's very pretty. Oh my gosh since she came from Arkanas & isn't in her native region now.. I'd get that pen built & keep her.
There's a ton of good box turtle info to be found online.
Check out:
http://boxturtlesite.org/

http://www.anapsid.org/box.html
Good luck with her!
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PHRatz

yea shes already moved in... haha... well atleast into a temporary enclosure... my mom got a 55 gallon rubbermaid filled it about 6-10 inches different parts with substrate.. put in a hide box, water bowl (bottom of a large planter), 2 strawberry plants, and a nice feeding station. we've given her lots of choices of foods to eat, so far we can only get her to eat meal worms, nightcrawlers, and cucumbers.

we've tried... carrots, sweet potato, squash, tomatoes, strawberries, blue berries, mushrooms, collard greens, and turnip greens.

we had it all diced and set into a small plate... she dug through everything just to find the cucumbers and live food

do you have a blender?
you can try blending a bunch of stuff together, might get her to try it..
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My Site
1.2.1 Terrapene Carolina Triunguis
0.1 Nymphicus hollandicus
1.1 Melopsittacus undulatus
1.0 American Cocker Spaniels
1.0 American Short Hair? Cat
1.1 Rouen Ducks

heres a picture of the temporary turtle house... (for about 2 weeks, until the outdoor enclosure is ready)

and the water bowl was JUST cleaned... haha as soon as i clean it out... the turtle has to go check out the changed water.

3 Toes can be very individualistic in what they eat, and they tend toward being more carniverous than herbiverous when they can get it. I fed mine cantaloupe and strawberries Sunday--she likes both, but she demolished the cantaloupe before even looking at the strawberries. I used to really baby her with crickets and crawlers and lots of live prey, but now she has had to adapt to more chicken and she eats it regularly.