We felt so happy to see such a lucky, famous tortoise that was living at the time of World War 1. She reminds us of Stewart Little and all of the soldiers that lost their lives in the war.
While living in New Zealand Torty has had three lucky escapes. She hibernated in a pile of leaves that got set on fire. Luckily she woke up and came out just in time.
She got lost on a sandbank for three days and nearly died because she didn't have any water.
She was stolen and sold to a circus. Luckily a policeman spotted Torty because he noticed the dents and that she had two toes missing on one of her back legs. He took Torty back to live with Stewart.
When Torty was living in Salonika she was run over by a gun carriage. Her shell got two dents on it from the iron wheel. You need to look closely to see them. She is meant to have four toes but now on one of her back legs she only has two.
We were really impressed that Torty made the trip all the way from Salonika to Dunedin, New Zealand hibernating in Stewart's army bag.
We definitely think Torty is a Survivor!
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Nicely written Kereru. I had to go and look up where Salonika was on a map :) I found out it is in Greece.
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