- (AFP) -- A pet tortoise made it as far
as 2.9 kilometres away from home in the eight months since going missing
- an average of 12 metres a day, the BBC has reported.
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- Horace the Herman tortoise was spotted
in the middle of a road on the outskirts of Cardiff by animal welfare inspector
Nic de Calis, who then scanned his microchip and duly returned him to his
thrilled owners.
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- "They were so surprised to receive
my call and are delighted that they will be reunited with their long-lost
pet," Mr Calis said. The owner received Horace as a Christmas present
about seven years ago. He had been put into the garden - and five minutes
later had vanished.
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- While on his travels, the plucky youngster
avoided all the possible perils, including being eaten by other animals
or being crushed by a car. In September 2004, another lost tortoise completed
a three-mile journey in north-east England in a much faster time of three
months.
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- Herman tortoises can live as long as
150 years.
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