I found The Tortoise! Phew!!
So I went to check on The Tortoise this evening.
I went to his pen in the garden and… HE WAS GONE!!
ACK! PANIC!! Oh my gawd, oh my gawd, someone stole him!!!
The way the bricks were arranged at the opening, I thought there was no way The Tortoise (1) had the strength to push the bricks away, and (2) could arrange them so neatly in a row, in order to escape.
So I called HIM and asked “Where’s your torchlight??!!” *trying not to be hysterical*
(Note : It was late evening — sky was dark — and it was raining as well. What “perfect” conditions to be out looking for a tortoise whose shell would be perfect camouflage in the garden foliage!)
Anyway, me being the animal lover that I am — would never forgive myself if I didn’t try looking for The Tortoise, in the hopes that he just might’ve tried to escape and was not stolen — held the umbrella in one hand and the torchlight in the other, went scouring in the garden for The Tortoise.
… *looking*…
…*searching*…
… *looking some more*…
Waitaminute! … is that a pair of eyes I see behind that pot??? OH MY GAWD!!! The Tortoise is alive and not stolen!!!
Never in my entire life have I ever been soooooo glad to see a tortoise!!!
Phew!!! Thank gawd!! I secured his pen with more bricks and a couple of flower pots (try doing this while holding on to an umbrella and a torchlight and a set of keys with only a pair of hands, in heavy rain!), put him back in, and gave him his food.
I hope he doesn’t try to escape again tomorrow. I don’t think I can handle another almost-heart-attack.
o_O
