90-year-old tortoise gets wheels after her legs were chewed off by rats

Mrs T and now moves even faster than before.

90-year-old tortoise gets wheels after her legs were chewed off by rats

In Wales, a 90-year-old tortoise names Mrs T, was the victim of nature's cruelty when she was attacked by rats in her hutch while hibernating.

The rodents ate the poor creature's front legs - leaving her alive but maimed.

Her owner, however, was not content to leave the animal motionless. After initially planning to have a local cobbler make up prosthetics to be affixed to what remained of Mrs T's legs, it emerged that the tortoise would need to be amputated.

Instead, owner Jude Ryder glued a set of wheels to Mrs T's shell using a resin to attach wheels, and now moves even faster than before.

This isn't, however, the first time such a plan has been employed - in March 2014, a 23-year-old marginated tortoise named Septimus was given model aeroplane wheels after a rat attack left him with almost identical injuries.

The oldest tortoise in Britain was also killed in a rat attack in 2013, at age 130.

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