When
rats ate the front legs of a hibernating 90-year-old tortoise named
Mrs. T in Pembrook, Wales, its owner, Jude Ryder, feared the worst. A
£1,000 vet bill did little to improve the situation until Ryder’s
mechanical engineer son Dale, 37, glued wheels from a model aircraft
onto the tortoise’s shell, making her twice as fast. Dale had received
Mrs. T as a gift when he was 8 and she was already in her 60s.
“It was like fitting her with a turbo
charger – she’s going double the speed she used to,” said Ryder. “Mrs T
is still quite young for a tortoise. She could go on for another 50
years – all she needs is a new set of tyres every now and again.”
Rat attacks on tortoises are not uncommon. Britain’s oldest tortoise, 130 year-old Thomas, died from a rat bite in 2013.
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