Watch: Tortoise who lost her legs gets prosthetic wheels, moves at twice her previous speed

Just like a comic book character who becomes a superhero after getting super-powers following a life-changing event, a 90-year-old tortoise who lost her legs, was saved when her owner’s son attached wheels from a model aircraft to her shell.

Because of the wheels attached to the shell of Mrs T, the tortoise, she can now travel at twice the speed at which she used to walk before getting them. “It was like fitting her with a turbo charger – she’s going double the speed she used to,” The Telegraph quoted Jude Ryder, Mrs T’s owner as saying. “Mrs T is still quite young for a tortoise. She could go on for another 50 years – all she needs is a new set of tyres every now and again,” she said.

Mrs T had lost her legs when rats broke into her hutch and gnawed off her legs when she was hibernating. She didn’t want to put down her pet tortoise and had spent $1,500 on vet bills before turning to her son Dale for help, according to Huffington Post .

Dale, a mechanical engineer, came up with the idea fitting the tortoise with a harness and wheels.