Family seeks missing 100-pound pet
WEATHERFORD, Texas There's a 100-pound tortoise on the loose in Texas. Members of a Weatherford family are worried about their missing pet, "Brutus."
Ann Mutschler believes someone stole the 16-year-old Sulcata (sul-KAY'-tuh) tortoise while the family did some Christmas shopping on Saturday.
She says Parker County Sheriff's Department investigators have dusted the home for fingerprints.
Mutschler described Brutus as having a yellow and brown pattern on his back. She told the Dallas Morning News that the creature looks: "real bumpy."
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