90-Year-Old Tortoise Called Zuma Has Been Rescued From A Garbage Truck
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“We were so lucky because if it hadn’t been stuck in traffic, Zuma would have been squashed or incinerated.”
Meet Zuma, a 90-year-old tortoise from central London.
Jay Singh-Sohal / Westminster Council
His owner, Sarah Joiner, 56, was frantic last Friday when she came home from a swim at the local pool to find he'd disappeared.
Jay Singh-Sohal / Westminster Council
Zuma lives in Joiner's back garden in Westminster and usually likes to lurk in his terracotta shelter during the summer. But he was nowhere to be seen.
"Then I realised he had to have got into the rubbish," she told BuzzFeed News. "I'd been dead-heading some roses and there was a bag of cuttings that Zuma must have crawled into."
Jay Singh-Sohal / Westminster Council