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My leopards are gonna spend their first year outdoors.
I live in So Cal so the high in the winters is about 75 and the low may go to 50-55.
I have a heated house for them that I have to place them in every night (probably because it is not cold enough now for them to search for heat). They know how to get out of it but never attempt to enter it at night.
What is the best way for them to figure out the way in?

Just keep putting them in it every night and they should get the picture that they should go in there. That is what I did with my torts and they have figured it out and go into it when they need to put normally they dig under a tree at night if they dont have to go into the house. Good luck

I agree, just keep putting them into it. They don't use it as
a house for shade in the summer? If they just use it as a shelter
all the time, then they'll use it in the winter too hopefully.
Teddy would go into his preivous two smaller houses and look
out of them relaxing, also to get out of the rain.

My torts don't go into it for fowl weather because there isn't much foul weather in this neck of the woods.
For shade and such they have a few choice places like under the table.

The simple answer is "they don't">>>>.the Leopard must be the only tortoise which fails to remember where the heat is.
My Sulcata's & Russians ALWAYS return home on an evening to the heated area's but the Leo's (50%) need to be rounded up & hand returned to base.
Here in the UK I dare not chance leaving them out overnight except on real hot summer days.....just had two this past 10 yrs!!!!))
graham(UK)