My male dug out his pen last summer and spent three weeks out in the great wilds of my neighborhood. My daughter saw a lady picking up a turtle about a block away from the house and suspected it was him. Her and my wife ran over to check it out and sure enough it was him. The lady thought it was a wild turtle and was going to throw him into the little neighborhood lake!!! Whew, close call!! Needless to say I fortified the perimeter of the pen.