The Weird Post

Posted by admin on March 27th, 2008 in weird

A TORTOISE that smokes and appears to be addicted to nicotine has been discovered in China’s northeastern province of Jilin.

The smoking tortoise is the pet of a Chinese man surnamed Yun from Yongji County. He has kept the animal as a pet for nearly four years, according to the City Evening News.

Yun, himself a smoker, one day teased the tortoise by putting a cigarette butt into its mouth. To his surprise, it smoked. From then on, he often shared his cigarettes with his pet.

“It seems to have become addicted,” Yun was quoted as saying. “Whenever I smoke in front of it, it will stick its head out of the water and fidget about until I give it the stub.”

To prove his claim, Yun put a cigarette into the tortoise’s mouth in the presence of the paper’s reporter and his neighbors, said the report.

To everyone’s surprise, the animal finished smoking the cigarette in less than four minutes — even faster than most men do, and seemed to be enjoying the process.

Tang Jingwen, the deputy secretary-general of the Wildlife Conservation Society of Jilin City, said he was quite surprised by the news.

He knew about monkeys who smoked out of imitation of human beings, but had never heard of a tortoise lighting up.

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In the meanwhile people are posting al kinds of video’s this one is a turtle smoking weed/ marijuana ( Bad pet owner! Yet the pet seems to go along with it.  )