Summary Roerig says Sulley is healthy and unharmed, but won't be staying in enclosure until it's repaired.
UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A 100-pound tortoise is back with its owner after meandering more than a mile away from its northern New Jersey home.
NJ.com reports (http://bit.ly/1iESjwR ) a motorist spotted Sulley on the side of a road Friday and called the state police.
Pattenburg Volunteer Fire Company s chief, Dan VanFossen, says they were about to go looking for Sulley on Friday afternoon when they got the call that the tortoise had been found. Volunteer firefighters and a search-and-rescue dog searched unsuccessfully for several hours on Thursday.
Sulley s owner, Laura Roerig, says the tortoise went missing from a backyard enclosure in Union Township on Sunday morning when she went to church.
Roerig says Sulley is healthy and unharmed, but won t be staying in the enclosure until it s repaired. She says Sulley s in timeout.
