Posted on 10/23/2023 9:03:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
A tortoise found wandering in Putnam County, Fla., turned out to have escaped from her home in April 2020, about five miles from where she was found. Photo courtesy of Florida's Wildest Animal Rescue/Facebook
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Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Sheriff's deputies in Florida captured a loose African sulcata tortoise and the reptile was later found to have escaped its home 3 1/2 years earlier.
Florida's Wildest Animal Rescue, a nonprofit exotic animal refuge in Putnam County, said local sheriff's deputies brought in a sulcata tortoise they found wandering in Interlachen.
"He is definitely someone's tortoise as he likes people and head pats," the sheriff's office said in a Facebook post.
The refuge also posted about the tortoise on social media and soon received a flood of tips from members of the public about a sulcata tortoise that had been reported missing in the same area in April 2020.
"She was missing for 3 1/2 years and found 5 miles away from where she originally escaped," the refuge said.
The tortoise was returned to her surprised and grateful owners.
"She is in a little bit of rough shape from spending so many cold winters here without heat, but she will be OK, and we recommended a trip to the vet," the refuge said.
Ping!.............
If Biden wandered off
Any chance that the hare is still warming up at the START line?
they are fast! this one almost got away.
Mitch?
Meet Wally the Wanderer, his theme song?
“The Wanderer, of course, sung by Dion (1961)
Oh well, I’m the type of guy who will never settle down,
Where pretty girls are well, you know that I’m around,
I kiss ‘em and I love ‘em cause to me they’re all the same,
I hug ‘em and I squeeze ‘em,
They don’t even know my name!”
The Philanderer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4huqCCBcSI
Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 1.43 miles per year. That gives us a radius of five miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.
He’s been running away at full speed this whole time.
Ahhhhh.....so that’s where all those little tortices came from.
A shell of her former self, but she'll be okay with a little Tortle Loving Care.
THERE’S a turtle that moved faster in 3.5 years than McConnell did in one
😁
The hare was likely waten by a python.
Tortoises bill burrow underground if the temperature gets too low...........
That's 0.7 miles per year, or 0.00008 miles per hour.
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