She explained that it was a young man who claimed to be a teacher at a school nearby. She informed us that he insisted on taking the animal and assumed that he would attempt to do the right thing and find its owners. Fortunately, the woman had exchanged numbers with this young man. Being the sweet woman she was, she decided to reach out and check in with this guy about Tulip
Tulip was eventually reunited with her mom and dad and is back at home with them in a mended fence. But this story is one that is being sent, like I said, to news outlets locally and nationally. Something like this cannot be allowed to happen. It's very obvious when you see a tortoise of that size wandering the streets that it has a home. Tortoises are very massive creatures. They age, they live very, very long