Stage One: A Place In The Sun For Buster

I've cared for a fugitive Russian tortoise since it was found in October of 2001. For these seven years its lived in progressively larger aquariums, which are decidedly not ideal for tortoises.

Well, I finally made good on long put-off plans to build Buster an outdoor home and this pretty much details the work done this morning.

What remains before Buster is introduced to her new digs is to fill the box a third to half-way with dirt and construct an adequate and secure roof (pretty much consisting of a custom-made screen hinged on one side and latched on the other.

For any who wonder why I just don't put Buster in the backyard and let her have that as her pen, Russians are notoriously renowned and indefatigable escape artists, and there are just too many options in our backyard for Buster to breach and never be seen again.

UPDATED: The following day I did another Home Depot run and got the materials for the lid. I didn't document its construction the way I did the main section of the hutch, but as you can see in the addition of the last five photos in the set it came together quite nicely.

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items are from between 28 Jun 2008 & 30 Jun 2008.