Meet the owner of a 175 lb tortoise | Viral Pets | New York Post

Fans go gaga for Tiptoe, a hugely popular tortoise taking TikTok by storm. The exotic pet is slow-moving, but his account, “Caitlin and Tiptoe,” quickly grew to 3.9 million followers.

“He’s a very sassy, untrained 175-pound lump,” his caretaker, Los Angeles-based influencer Cailtin Doran told The Post. “He just has a mind of his own, and has his own ideas of how he wants his videos to go.”

The watermelon-munching turtle blew up online over the pandemic. This past summer during quarantine, Doran made a video — ”kind of as a joke” — cutting up Tiptoe’s food, which typically consists of fruits and veggies. Within an hour, the clip hit one million views on TikTok.

In March 2020, the tortoise owner had taken time off from her job working in behavior analytic services for children with autism — not realizing a global lockdown would derail her career. A ix of boredom and sadness eventually drove her to TikTok, and the rest is internet history.

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