90-year-old tortoise gets wheels for legs after rat attack

This tortoise is making the best of a bad situation.

Mrs. T  suffered a stroke of bad luck when she was hibernating and some rats decided that her front legs looked like lunch and chewed them off.  Her owner, Jude Ryder of Pembroke, West Wales didn't have the heart to put her down, so she turned to her son Dale Sinclair-Jones, an engineer, who glued on a harness connecting wheels from a model aircraft onto her shell, reports TIME magazine.  Now, she's got the freshest set of wheels in town.

"It was like fitting her with a turbo charger. She's going double the speed she used to," Ryder told the Telegraph. "She uses her back legs to push herself along. She seems quite happy, but it's difficult to tell with a tortoise."

Zoom zoom, Mrs. T!