Ginger was a lonely female tortoise who escaped from her home one year ago to try and find love.

Single for the first time in years, Ginger dug under the garden fence and made a slow getaway across countryside fields following the death of her longtime companion, Fred.

Her dancing days might have been behind her, but that wasn’t going to stop her from trying to find someone to share her golden years with.

Ginger’s owner, 51-year-old Sarah-Jane Muirie, is now celebrating the return of her beloved pet, who she has owned since she was a 10-year-old girl and that was found last week by a horse rider in the rural English county of Gloucestershire.

Muirie had put up signs around the area following Ginger’s disappearance last June, but said she’d given up hope after nearly a year without a si

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