Missing Pet Tortoise Found
Incident Date:
10/27/2024
Location:
Piedmont, OK - USA
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Facility Type:
Exotic Pet (E)
Incident Category:
Escape of animal (EA)
Species:
Reptiles
Animal:
Tortoise
Animal disposition:
Recaptured
Summary:
Piedmont, OK – After more than two months of searching, an Oklahoma woman’s pet tortoise was found, only about 100 feet from home. In late August, Cherrie Zaidi put her two African Spur Tortoises, named Phineas and Ferb, outside of their Piedmont, Oklahoma, home, as she usually did. Normally, she explained, she would check on them every couple of hours. One day, she got preoccupied on a phone call. By the time she was able to go look, Ferb had shimmied his way under an area of their fence. From there, a search was on.
It had been nine weeks and four days without Ferb by the time her husband found him about 100 feet into a field behind their home.
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