Britain's oldest pet tortoise dies aged 130

[Still Waters]

He survived the Blitz, five monarchs and both World Wars.

But Thomas, who was Britain's oldest resident, has died aged 130 - after being bitten by a rat.

He was born in 1882 and was pulled out of the rubble of a bomb-hit house in Essex in 1945.

The reptile had to be put down by owner June Le Gallez after being attacked by a rat in the back garden of her home in Guernsey.

http://www.dailymail...en-leg-rat.html

[Yamato]

"I'd rather be a tortoise from Galapagos or a span of geological time than be living in these dog years." ~ Neil Peart

[shrooma]

rats.

is there no end to the suffering they cause??