SELAH – Speedy the tortoise is home again after a week and a half on the lam, and owner Norma Lind couldn’t be happier.
The sulcata land tortoise, about 1 1/2 feet long, 1 foot wide and 34 pounds, was spotted Friday evening along a fence beside Interstate 82 north of Selah, Lind said.
She credited Charlie Blevins of Gleed and his chocolate Labrador retriever, Maddy, for helping her find the tortoise, who got loose by knocking over part of a cinderblock corral outside her home.
She had offered a $500 reward, but Blevins turned it down.
“As a fellow pet lover, I just wanted to help,” he said.
He said he read about the missing tortoise in the Yakima Herald-Republic and took his dog in an all-terrain vehicle to help Lind with her search, eventually following a trail of crushed grass along the fence for about a mile and a half.
The dog lost the track, but Lind kept her eyes peeled and eventually saw Speedy.
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