Grandmother Jackie Leek has struck up a remarkable bond with a giant tortoise which she takes everywhere with her - including down the pub.
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00:00Hi, my name is Jackie and I have a therapy pet tortoise called Mr Miyagi and today I have brought him to the pub.
00:10He comes here because what he does, he walks round the pub and he can walk round in a circle
00:30and he goes round the bar and he comes round and he rearranges all the furniture.
00:39All the people who drink in there love it because he just goes walking off with the chairs.
00:45I do drink in here so if I come in without him everyone's like, where's Mr Miyagi Jackie?
00:52So I have to come sometimes on my own, I can't bring him every time.
00:56But yeah, he loves coming in here and Gareth who owns the place always lets me bring him in, he hasn't got a problem.
01:06I got Mr Miyagi, I got diagnosed with a couple of cancers, couldn't go to work anymore
01:16and then I was getting up all hours of the night or sleeping in the day and my family were amazing
01:25but I felt like I needed something that needed me so I couldn't have a dog or anything
01:33so we just went to the pet shop and I said, oh why don't we get a tortoise?
01:38And when we went we were looking at all these little tortoises and we thought, oh that would be nice, I'll be able to hold it and cuddle it.
01:45Anyway, we ended up getting an African Spurthight.
01:49They were very honest in the pet shop, told us they grow very big, very big and I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, be fine, be fine, be fine.
01:58And here we are, eight years on and he's not even halfway there yet and he's huge.
02:05He's disruptive and you think you've been burgled when you come in, it completely trashes my house, breaks stuff.
02:15It costs us a fortune to feed and then there's all these heat lights, all these bulbs.
02:24But he's worth every penny to me, he's the one that's with me when I have them bad days and I'm crying and I don't want to bother everybody else.
02:33He knows there's something wrong with me, he'll sit at my feet, wherever I am he'll come and find me.
02:41If I nip out and I come in, he can be in his house but as soon as he hears my voice, he's out of his little house and he's straight over.
02:51He's like a dog but he's more than a dog.
02:59He gives me so much love and I love it when people stop me and ask me about him.
03:05I can spend all day saying, oh this is what he does, this is what he does.