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welcome to Teddy's house

for the times when he doesn't use his window to enter/exit
his house. This would only be closed if his door was also
closed so there is no access to the window from the outside
for him anyways.

sits on hooks and also clasps into the wooden pieces.

When it's in the window as a block it sits inside the
frame and clasps into the sides.

It's white melamine, always looks funny when I make
the pics. smaller?

I hung a towel there for some partitioning. All lights are
on a timer now. Today they were on from 8 a.m. till 10 a.m.
(it's now 86 F outside) but the cooler mornings are starting
to appear.

truely the best tort house i have ever seen. i am planning on getting a tort soon. and i still have to come up with the plans for his habitat. the only problem is i have two dogs that stay outside and would be quite curious but would evntually ignore him. so i am still thinking.any ideas?

You'd have to keep the dogs seperate, don't think they'll eventually
ignore a tortoise, they'll eventually kill him. Believe me it
happens all the time on the tortoise forum, people can't seem
to understand that dogs/cats have no reason NOT to do it just
because they're your pets. As often as it happens, people still
do it assuming it's always "someone elses dog that would do that,
not mine".
Our tortoise habitat is inside a 6 ft. privacy fence, your dogs
could have run of the yard as long as the tort was fenced off
from them and had dog/digging proof fencing around that. Dogs have
been known to dig into a tortoise pen and kill it. This is one
reason my fence is electric (and I don't even have any dogs).

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.

yes but my fence is not just privacy fencing. it is concrete cinder blocks stacked up about 6 ft. high. i have started on the enclosure and i dont know what i am gonna use for fencing. maybe a wood fence or more concrete wih a gate. how much would a wood fence run me but only like 4 ft high.

Wow, that is one of the coolest habitats I have ever seen! Nice work! -Camo19

I know from experience.. dogs will gnaw on the tort shell like it is rawhide, plus they will inevitably flip the tort over in the sun. You must keep dogs separate.

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