article_snippet.sent: Owner Wendy Stokes, 74, had given up hope of ever seeing Toby again after A tortoise escaped from his Wendy Stokes' garden in Kent 11 months ago.
article_snippet.sent: Reunited: Wendy Stokes, 74, is delighted to have 109-year-old Toby back after A tortoise escape 11 months ago .
article_snippet.sent: She's had Toby since the 1980s when Toby was given to She by She late great aunt.
article_snippet.sent: Toby was returned home last Sunday, a full 11 months after Toby amazing, if a little slow, adventure.
article_snippet.sent: Wendy's has had Toby since the 1980s when he was given to her by her late great aunt and wrote Wendy's surname, Stokes, on Toby back in white paint .
article_snippet.sent: Toby just walked out and trotted towards the road where somebody picked Toby up and took Toby to a rescue centre. '
article_snippet.sent: and we always take Toby to the village fete
article_snippet.sent: so Toby is a bit of a local celebrity. '
article_snippet.sent: I was devastated when Toby went missing and spent weeks looking for Toby in all the fields around the farm.'
article_snippet.sent: She added: 'I went all goosey when they told me they had Toby because I had really given up on Toby. '
article_snippet.sent: It is brilliant having Toby back
article_snippet.sent: and I think everybody was keeping they eye out for Toby all this time.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Toby escaped out the back gate from Toby Wendy Stokes' garden in Kent .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Toby was picked up by a driver on a nearby road and taken to a rescue centre .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Six months later Toby was re-homed with a couple in Margate - 22 miles away .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Toby had 'his Wendy Stokes'' written on Toby shell so a couple tried calling every Wendy Stokes' in Kent before reuniting Toby with Wendy 11 months after escape .