Madam T has had tortoises for many, many years. We lost a couple of adult big ‘uns a few years back – they were 70+ years of age. Currently have two small north African ones (Arthur and Guinevere, always named after monarchs) which were “rescued” by RSPCA. Then we had to rescue them again because the Society has no idea what to do with chelonia and was going to have them destroyed. There were 500 of the beasts – from a suitcase intercepted at Heathrow. Got them all adopted.