In August of this year I did a post about an escaped 150 lb tortoise in Tennessee noting with amusement that it happened so fast. In the end Solomon (the tortoise) was reunited with his family. Apparently the southern portion of the east coast is conducive to keeping tortoises though they seem to have a habit of going missing. Sparkplug a 200 lb African spurred tortoise got out of his fenced enclosure and wandered off down the road. A man spotted him and loaded him into his truck and took his across the county to his 200 acre soybean farm where he released him. I suppose the man was afraid to leave him beside the road for fear of Sparkplug being run over,though once he got the 200 lb guy loaded it seems like he would have looked for his home. Everything turned out alright after the owners posted their missing pet on Facebook and neighbors informed his rescuer who then loaded him back up and drove him home.
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