Slowly but Surely .... Tortoise Mike Returns Home ….

By Jonnel Benjamin

Missing Mike the Herman tortoise has returned home after being missing for two months.

5-year-old Mike was relaxing in the family garden in Yeadon when he went missing.

Owner Suzanne Collop, went to collect Mike from the garden one day back in May but couldn’t find him. She searched the whole neighbourhood without success, and became very worried for pet’s safety.

Mrs Collop said: “We thought someone had stolen him.

“We gave up. We thought that we would never see him again.

“But Two months later he just wondered back into the garden.”

It was on a sunny day Mrs Collop said: “One of the kids was playing in the garden and I heard him shout.

“He walked into the house with the tortoise in his hand and Mike was covered in mud, as if he’d been buried.”

Since returning home Mrs Collop said: “He’s been very pampered, we gave him a bath and treated him to strawberries.

“We’ve just spoilt him.”