ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) — A 150-pound tortoise who escaped from a Tennessee home has been returned after 74 days, managing to make it less than a mile during his slow and steady journey.
Owner Lynn Cole told WKRN-TV on Friday that the African Sulcata Tortoise named Soloman crawled away from his Ashland City enclosure more than two months ago and was discovered just an eighth of a mile away from home last week.
Cole said a man and his son spotted Solomon grazing in a valley at a construction site and returned him within minutes.
The owners said they would pay Soloman's rescuers a reward for returning him home.
