'Mr Jackson has owned Yuri for 40 years, inheriting the pet from a previous owner who said
they could not cope.
He and his wife also own horses, chickens, two dogs and a parrot.
Yuri's favourite foods include strawberries, bananas and brown bread.'
Let's hope Mr Jackson does not decide to fit wheels to the rest of his animals.
I had a tortoise as a pet when I was a child. She, for her name was Dumbella, was an escape artist and we once had to go and fetch her/it from about half a mile away. The finders being able to phone us because my father had the sense to paint our phone number on the underside of it after about the third escape.
my father could cope no longer and he drilled a hole through the back of it's shell through which he tied string. I was not sad enough to take it for a walk, but it was tied to the rotary drier.
It was a long length of string obviously.