We take her out for day trips in the backyard a couple days a week in the summer but no pen other then the backyard fence. Dogs keep an eye on her. I think they think she's a weird deformed dog. It would be nice to be somewhere warm enough to have a pen outside for most of the year. Cut down on electric bills.I would love to have a sulcatta or some other large growing tortoise.Maybe after I relocate frim the northeast so I can keep it in an outdoor pen.