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I am thinking of building a toy of some sort for my turtle. "Toy" seems an odd rendering of what it is I have in mind; really, I am thinking of a way to make my turtle's environment more interesting for him. As I have said elsewhere, I live in an apartment in a large city and so he must be an indoor turtle. I was thinking of making something that could fit underneath a table, something my turtle could stumble upon as he roams my apartment and that would catch his curiosity. I was thinking of a little contraption with places to hide and explore, maybe some things to gnaw on (since he loves gnawing on my furnature so much).

Any ideas? Anyone have similar objects they have made and would be willing to show me? Or maybe there are some manufactured ones out there that I can buy instead of make?

I just throw a pile of stuffed animals or towels on the floor and Mikey (my ornate boxie) has a wonderful time tunneling through them and pushing them around.

My greek tortoise liked to push around a medium sized ball.

Really? I may have to try that. I do find that he likes to rummage through my dirty clothes, when I neglect to put them in the hamper. I'll have to get a stuffed toy or two and a ball. I also want to build a little stand with some cuttle bone on it so he can chew it. That way he will leave my furnature alone, hehe.

I had a box turtle that spent a lot of time trying to stalk a cat. Anytime I'd be cleaning the pen, I'd let him roam the yard and he'd always look around to see where the cat was and race off to go bite him on the tail ! The cat would jump and run off to another part of the yard and lay down and the turtle would race after and try to attack his tail again.

One summer I attached a small fuzzy cat toy with a piece of rope to the hammock so the cat could play with it while I swung in the hammock... it would dangle onto the ground. the turtle would race up to it and bite it too and essentially treated it like a tug-o-war toy.. guess he thought it was a cat tail.

Also had to watch out for bare toes and fingers.. he's attack them too.
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PHWyvern

>>>>Also had to watch out for bare toes and fingers.. he'd attack them too.

I learned years & years ago, never walk barefoot among the shelled ones. LOL
With the big tortoise I also cannot walk around with pink, green, yellow, or red socks on my feet even with shoes on. She thinks
FOOD!!!
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PHRatz