Jackie Leek spends four days a week in Morecambe and has a giant tortoise as a therapy pet. She has just started taking him for walks on the beach at Morecambe.
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00:00I got a therapy pet because I suffer with cancer and I needed something just to help me through
00:07the nights when I'm having my bad nights and that's how he ended up in our life and he sits
00:13with me when I'm up in the middle of the night and he comes everywhere with me. I have a routine
00:20that's good for my mental health for him. For me, what I do is I have a routine with him
00:28every day and we do this routine every day so on the bad days I'm having I think,
00:35right well pull yourself together Jacky, you've got to sit to Mr Miyagi and never ever expected
00:43him to grow as big as he did and all the fuss we have with him, it's amazing and it gives me a good
00:52boost. He makes me feel on top of the world, without him and my partner I'd probably not be
01:01like I am now, they keep me going. They're hard work, they're very destructive, you know,
01:10he moves furniture around, it looks like you've been burgled when you come in.
01:14I couldn't be without him, he's more than a therapy pet to me. I really don't know why we
01:22called him Mr Miyagi, it just came along that name and that's what he is, Mr Miyagi. Everyone
01:30wants a picture, they all want to know about him, they all ask me is he real and people just
01:39fascinated, there must be thousands of pictures of him all over Markham and in Warrington where we
01:47live. I brought him on the beach, just frank holiday Monday, we just nipped down on quiet bit,
01:54within 10 minutes we were surrounded, lots of people, lots of photo shoots and now he's gone,
02:00it went viral, even the news got in touch with me about the story about him. We live here
02:07half a week on Venture Caravan Park and he's a celebrity on Venture now, but he's got to a point
02:16where sometimes I like bringing him out, he's been in a few local pubs now, as soon as they
02:22find out about him they go can you bring him in, can you bring him in and I like bringing him on
02:27the beach. I love people looking at him and asking questions about him.