"Amanda Cole-Hargie, 26-year-old photographer, said: 'I was taking a nap when I was woken by this continual banging noise.
'I traced it to next door's garden and there was Percy, nutting the ball against the fence over and over again.'
Percy's owners, Dave Miles, a paramedic, and his wife Jo, social work resource officer, said the tortoise had been playing football ever since their three children started kicking balls around in the garden at their Brighton home.
'Maybe he thinks the football is a potential mate - we just don't know - but his football crazy play is keeping him healthy.'"
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Comments (2)
I think the mate theory is probably right-awh poor Percy!!
Posted by chrisb | June 15, 2007 10:14 AM
Posted on June 15, 2007 10:14
No kidding! This sounds just like what my male tortoises did to my female tortoise when they were feeling amorous.
Posted by turtledown | June 15, 2007 10:22 AM
Posted on June 15, 2007 10:22