以假乱真:英母女爱心救助乌龟 竟是中国制造陶瓷品

以假乱真:英母女爱心救助乌龟 竟是中国制造陶瓷品  

You can see why it fooled a pair of animal lovers. When Margaret Parker and her daughter Lorraine spotted a stray tortoise in their garden they raced into action.
They approached it carefully and
seeing it wasn't moving
headed straight to the shops for emergency supplies of lettuce and tomato。When the poorly runaway refused to eat
they naturally assumed it had been injured by a cat or
worse still
scared to death. So they called the Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue Centre
near Wigton
Cumbria.
It was only when rescue volunteer Pauline Adams arrived that the pair discovered the tortoise was not real. ‘I was worried it might have died
' said Mrs Parker
67. ‘But then the lady from Knoxwood looked at it
picked it up and turned it over. She said: ‘‘It's not dead
it's ceramic.'' I was so shocked because it looked real. My daughter was trying to tempt it with the lettuce and the tomato but I did wonder why it wasn't moving its head
and decided it was probably just frightened."
结果救援队员保琳·亚当斯来了以后，她们才发现这只乌龟是假的。"我很担心，以为这小家伙快死了。"67岁的帕克夫人这么说，"Knoxwood救援中心过来的女士检查了下这只乌龟，拿起来反复看。接着她告诉我说这乌龟不是真的，是陶瓷做的。我真的吓了一跳，因为这乌龟看上去和真的没两样。之前我女儿还试过喂它吃莴苣和番茄，它的头一动不动。那时我的确有过怀疑，不过只是以为它吓到了，不敢动而已。"
"It was about the same weight as a real tortoise
but when she picked it up and looked underneath there was writing on the bottom: Made in China."
Knoxwood founder Gee Scott praised Mrs Parker
saying: ‘She was embarrassed but she did do the right thing by getting in touch. A lot of these ceramic animal models can be very convincing.'
Mrs Parker has put the tortoise in a memorial garden at Carlisle Cemetery in memory of her late husband
Ronnie.