Catch! Unlikely playmates Juno the dog and Tilly the tortoise chase a ball (slowly) around room
- Jocelyn Levy filmed Juno the dog and Tilly the tortoise playing in the living room
- Juno ducks into a play bow and pushes a ball towards Tilly for a game of chase
- As the tortoise slowly moves towards Juno, she leaps away, on October 17
- She is a Hermann tortoise which live in beech forests in the Mediterranean
A 14-year-old tortoise was put through her paces in an game chase with a dog around a living room and could just about keep up.
Jocelyn Levy filmed the beloved family dog Juno, who is usually more interested in her own company, rolling an apple-shaped ball towards Tilly in Horley, Surrey.
The adorable tortoise had been let out for an evening walk and Juno decided to stay up late to play a game with her.
Tilly the tortoise, 14, chased an apple-shaped ball with Juno, a rescue dog, around Jocelyn Levy’s living room, in clip shared on October 17
In the clip, the family pooch gets up and ducks low into a play bow as a signal she is ready to play.
She leaps on to the sofa and bends low before erratically sprinting off as an invitation for Tilly to take part in some fun.
While the tortoise slowly strolls along the rug, Juno the rescue dog does not give up hope.
The Hermann’s tortoise was put through its paces as Juno kept leaping around the living room and nudging the ball towards it
She bounces towards Tilly with heaps of energy and taps the ball with her nose.
The pup bounces between the sofa and her bed as she tries to lock eyes with the meandering tortoise.
As Tilly moves towards Juno, who is sitting in a dog bed, she leaps out and jumps behind the tortoise.
Appearing to lose patience, Juno taps Tilly’s shell with her nose before jumping on to the sofa and performing a play bow to encourage the family reptile to get going
Juno persists on nudging the ball towards Tilly for a slow game of chase in Jocelyn’s living room in Horley, Surrey
She takes the stroll as a sign that the reptile is up for playing and nudges the ball towards it.
As she ambles along the rug, the dog bows and then jumps behind on to its bed in a game of chase.
Again Tilly turns around in pursuit of the dog.
Moments later, the dog, its tail wagging, drops the ball at Tilly’s side and springs away in what appears to be a very one-sided game.
Tilly arrived at Jocelyn’s home in Surrey on August 31 and is part of the Hermann species which lives in rocky hillsides and beech forests in the Mediterranean region of Europe.