This is Outside In, I'm Nate Hedgy. A couple of months ago, producer Felix Poon found himself watching

two tortoises getting a bit active underneath a coffee table.

So that is a red-footed tortoise, that's Pizza Man, and that is Sprockets that is a black Burmese mountain

tortoise.

Are they doing what I think they're doing or?

They are doing that, yeah.

Pizza Man is a very virile male and he enjoys his friends as much as he can.

That, by the way, is Alexia Bell. She runs something called the Turtle Rescue League

out of her house in Southbridge, Massachusetts,

which makes it sound like an amateur operation,

but I can assure you it is not.

We have a Blandings turtle, small painted turtles.

We have a red-haired slider.

They've got personalized polos, a turtle ambulance,

and inside the house looks part aquarium part animal hospital and it is packed to the

cloaca with turtles.

Most houses wouldn't be able to withstand this kind of weight.

They would break.

Simply from the weight of the turtles?

The weight of the water.

Of the water.

Downstairs there is probably 20,000 pounds of water. There are a lot of reasons why animals need rescuing.

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