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Thomas the tortoise had to be put down by owner June Le Gallez after being attacked by a rat in the back garden of her home in Guernsey.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 3 days ago)
A SEEMINGLY indestructible tortoise, who survived two world wars and lived through the reigns of six British monarchs, has died aged 130 – after being bitten by a rat.
dailyexpress.co.uk (1 month and 3 days ago)

Thomas the tortoise had to be put down by owner June Le Gallez after being attacked by a rat in the back garden of her home in Guernsey.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 3 days ago)

Thomas the tortoise had to be put down by owner June Le Gallez after being attacked by a rat in the back garden of her home in Guernsey, which caused his leg to get infected.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 3 days ago)

The cub soon discovered that the leopard tortoise was not going to become a snack and discarded its victim when the tortoise urinated in its mouth.
dailymail.co.uk (8 days ago)

Tortoise-lover Katie Bradley, from Canada, started crocheting the outfits for her seven pet tortoises as a family joke. But after posting pictures of the designs on her tortoise blog, she was soon inundated with requests to make them for tortoises around the globe.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 16 days ago)
A TORTOISE that vanished 10 months ago has been found alive after being dug up from a garden by a JCB.
dailyexpress.co.uk (2 months and 7 days ago)
Under a new state regulation set to take effect next week, pet tortoise owners will only be allowed to keep one of the animals at a time.
lvrj.com (1 month and 22 days ago)
A TORTOISE called Adolf has cheated death – 71 years after he survived a Nazi bomb attack in the Second World War.
dailyexpress.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)
An 18-pound African leopard tortoise that disappeared from the National Mississippi River Museum earlier this week was found.
palmbeachpost.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
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