Press info: Tiny 3oz Tortoise Loses A Stone!
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 – especially as he is likely to be one of the smallest tortoises ever to undergone such a procedure. The plucky little tortoise was brought to the Exotic Animal Referral Centre at