Lost or Found Tortoises or Turtles

Please feel free to drop us a line to advertise any lost or found tortoises below. If you have lost or found a tortoise we recommend you also contact John Hayward from the National Theft Register for Zoological wildlife Investigations who runs a register of all such cases.  His contact details are:

Tel/fax: 01869 325699
Mobile:  07802 404929
Pager:  07626 120425
e-mail:  jh@ntr.supanet.com

Found - Tortoise, Croft, Leicester

Awaiting further details

5th July 2010

Lost - Horsfield Tortoise Appx 3yrs old - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

A Horsefield tortoise escaped at some point during 2nd July, possible female appx 3 years old, about 10-15cm in length.

If you have any information, please contactus@tortoise-protection-group.org.uk

Many Thanks
Darren

5th July 2010

Found - Tortoise in Neston, Wiltshire 4th July 2010

Awaiting further details

If anyone has lost a tortoise in this area, please drop us a line

contactus@tortoise-protection-group.org.uk

5th July 2010

Stolen - 6 Yr old Male Hermanns & 5 Yr old Moroccan Spur-Thighed Tortoise

Both were stolen from Biggin Hill in Kent on 14th April 2010.
If anyone has any information, would they please drop us a line:-
contactus@tortoise-protection-group.org.uk

Photo : Hermanns

Photo : Moroccan Spur-Thigh

Kindest Regards
Darren

31st May 2010

Found Adult Tortoise - Wiltshire

We have been contacted by a lady in Wiltshire who has found a tortoise. Here are the details:-

"I am looking after a large tortoise (poss female) found wandering on a busy country road in Wiltshire.  My property is not close to other houses and tortoise has travelled a great deal of miles to get here, or has been dumped.  Believed to be between 30 and 40 years old.
She has obviously been looked after for the majority of her life, but could have escaped a long time ago.
Usual attempts to find owner locally have not got any responses.
Any help would be appreciated."

If you have or know of anyone who has lost a tortoise in or around Wiltshire, please drop us a line:-

contactus@tortoise-protection-group.org.uk

Many Thanks

Darren

31st May 2010

LOST - 4 year old Hermanns (Leicester Stoneygate Area)

A lady has lost her 4 year old Hermanns on Sunday 22nd May in the Leicester Stoneygate Area. If you have any information, would you please drop us a line.

Many Thanks

Darren

May 30th 2010

FOUND - Shrewsbury Area

May 2010

Please drop us a line if you have lost a tortoise in the Shrewsbury area, appx 7 inches long

Kindest Regards

Darren

30th May 2010

LOST

2nd May 2009

We have been contacted by a lady in Kent who has lost her tortoise, and desperately wants him back safe and sound.  We are not sure of sex or species, but he does have some fairly distinctive shell damage - here is part of her message:-

I was hoping you would be able to advertise a lost tortoise for me?  His name is Charlie and must be over 60 years old by now.  He was dropped by his previous owner and therefore has pieces missing from the top of his shell but does have new shell slowly growing through.  He was apparently picked up, after having escaped from my garden in Maidstone, Kent, by a male wearing a white shirt and dark trousers, driving a "white Postman Pat type of van" who stated that he knew somewhere local to take him.  No vets or RSPCA's have been notified that he has been found.  PLEASE keep an eye out for him.

Please keep your eyes and ears open, and if you have any information, please contact us and we will pass it straight on to his owner.

STOLEN

12 tortoises have been stolen from a garden in Buxton Derbyshire 31 January 2009.  Read the details here and if you have any information please contact crimetoppers on 0800 555 111.

Taken from a back garden in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

in the early hours of  Monday 21st July 2008

6 Adults & 8 babies

Please Contact Pauline or David on

02392 381451

The tortoises reported above which were stolen from a garden in Portsmouth unfortunately still have not been recovered but there is a small ray of hope for David and Pauline.

We think our members might like to know of a wonderful gesture from someone who is on the TPG  List of Breeders.  Suzy (one of our recommended breeders) was so moved when she heard about the devastation felt by Pauline and David when they had all of their tortoises (six adults and eight babies) stolen from their garden in July, that she has contacted them and is giving them one of her hatchlings free of charge. 

In Suzy's own words: 

"I know how devastated I would be, I only hope it helps ease the pain of losing their babies a bit, by having another one to love & look after".

This is a great example of how people in the tortoise-keeping community support each other, and the TPG just wanted our members to know how great we think Suzy is.