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Humphrey, a one year old Indian Star tortoise, weighing just 3oz, has lost a stone. The tiny tortoise from has just recovered from a major operation that involved sawing his shell open and removing a bladder stone occupying nearly a fifth of his body.
Staff at the Trinity Vet Centre in Maidstone, Kent, where he was admitted in January, are amazed by how well Humphrey is doing...

A sick tortoise, which had been kept in a glass tank and had become severely constipated having eaten the gravel and stones on its cage floor, has recovered after an ‘adult sexual aid toy’ was used as a vibrating massager strapped to the underside of its shell. On arrival at the vets in Barons Court, London, the poorly tortoise was very weak and its head was withdrawn, probably due to pain. However, after a...