Hello,

This is my first post here. I have had my female box turtle for about 7 years now. We live at about 9000' in the mountains of Colorado. This summer we built her an outdoor pen but apparently didn't construct it well enough because she escaped from the pen about a week ago (We only kept her in it during the day when we were around) My question is, will she be able to survive up here? I believe she is a western box turtle but I don't know if their range includes mountains. We are having an unusually wet summer but our climate is usually dry and cool in the summer and snowy and cold in the winter.



Also, is she most likely completely gone from our yard? We've looked and have not been able to find her. I read something about box turtles having a strong homing instinct. Could she be trying to get back from were she came from?



Thanks for any help you can give me!

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