The pet tortoise of a woman in Oklahoma was found just 100 feet from her home, after more than two months of searching.
As she always did, Cherrie Zaidi took her two African Spur Tortoises, who she affectionately calls Phineas and Ferb, outside at the end of August. She said that she would usually check on them every two hours.
Zaidi said that she “got stuck on the phone that morning.”
Ferb had already played a shell game by the time she could go look. The tortoise went around a part of their fence and then turned around and ran away. After that, the search began.
“I looked for everything, and we drove around and around,” Zaidi said.
For almost four years, Phineas and Ferb lived with Zaidi’s family. In December 2020, Zaidi’s husband took them home from Tulsa by car.
“He took them home in little mailboxes along with a tank and everything I needed to start,” she said.
Piedmontians came to help look.
Around 100 feet into the field behind their house, her husband saw what he thought was a clump of grass. She had been pregnant for nine weeks and four days. until it moved like Ferb.
Zaidi recalled the event: “He could not even get the phone to ring to tell me all about it.” “I felt so much better.”
When Zaidi heard the news, she went home. They were back together right away, and it felt so good.
He told Nexstar’s KFOR, “It is been a long, long road, and I sure did miss him.”
On Thursday, Ferb was back at home and taking a bath.
Zaidi is the only person who will be more excited about that.
She told him, “I can not explain any of that.” “It is really nice to know.”
Zaidi said she is being extra careful around her yard to make sure Phineas or Ferb does not get out again.
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