Overview
- Miley Cyrus announced the adoption on her Instagram Stories over the weekend, sharing photos of herself feeding the tortoise she named Teru.
- Wags and Walks — a Los Angeles rescue best known for dogs — coordinated the match and said Teru was their first tortoise intake after arriving in the shelter system.
- The animal is a 20-year-old Sulcata, or African spurred, tortoise, a large, long-lived species that needs specialized, long-term care and housing.
- The adoption followed Cyrus receiving a Hollywood Walk of Fame star and fits her past public push to ‘adopt, not shop’ and her habit of adding rescued animals to her household.
- Wags and Walks used the high-profile placement to highlight capacity pressures, noting recent efforts to pull dozens of dogs from a high-intake shelter and urging support for rescue and adoption.