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I finally finished planting my outside enclosure. I only have 1 Three Toed in there...Izzy. She is not even 2 years, so I'll probably be taking her in for the winter. For now she is enjoying the great outdoors.

Beautiful and obviously loved and well-cared for turtle. One question though, is there a top or any other thing to keep her climbing over the fence (turtles can be surprisingly good climbers) or digging under it. Likewise, to prevent curious raccoons or kids poking around in there.

Izzy looks great, and happy!! -Chris

Izzy is one of the cutest 3-toeds I have ever seen. The enclosure looks great, but my concerns were exactly the same as the above posters before I read their post, of course it looks like you do have another chain link fence around the yard too and if you have a dog back there, would offer protection, provided it doesn't like to chew on turtles? Not sure if the turtle could or would climb out, but you probably don't want to find out either do you? Definatley not criticizing, just concerned, everything looks great but you might consider adding a top rail to the fence to block climbing.
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

Really beautiful. I wish I had more sun in mine to grow flowers... and veggies. It looks great, as does that 3-toed. Gorgeous.

Really nice looking setup you have there terryo. I really like your choice of plants and I wouldn't change your water bowl. It really looks good.

Good luck building a new fence around it.
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Vichris
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