Dick White Referrals (DWR) in Cambridgeshire have recently treated thier oldest patient to date – a 102 year old tortoise!
Having received a call from the referring vet on 1st April, DWR were unsure as to whether the call was an april fool’s day joke at first, but it was a genuine referral and the tortoise had been with the same family for three generations.
After undergoing surgery to remove a foreign body the tortoise went on to make a full recovery.
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