Wednesday, October 2, 2013

my tortoise is an escape artist

sweetpea tried (but failed) to get out of her enclosure. her enclosure is right behind me when i'm sitting at the computer. i turned around and this is what i saw.

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you can kinda see my computer in the background
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so i planted a bunch of aloe in that corner to deter her
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instead she just ate the aloe.
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three days later, its entire gone. she ate 6 smaller aloe plants. (yes aloe plants are safe for tortoises to eat)

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