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Giant tortoise named Frank the Tank seeks new home for next 100 years

Giant tortoise named Frank the Tank seeks new home for next 100 years

Tortoise is ‘bigger than the platter you’d use to serve 24 people a Thanksgiving turkey’ and was found abandoned in a spinach patch

Frank the Tank will chew through drywall and grow to the size of a wheelbarrow. He moves at his own meandering pace and will live for nearly a century – outlasting any prospective caregiver.

Caring for a 35lb sulcata tortoise is no small task, which is perhaps why Frank was recently abandoned in a patch of spinach in British Columbia. The plight of the lumbering reptile, has prompted widespread sympathy as his new carers try to find him a permanent home.

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