SSPCA hunting for owners of speedy reptile named after Mo Farah

Published on 15/08/2012 01:23

Animal rescue staff have named a speedy reptile after Olympics running hero Mo Farah.

The bearded dragon was spotted sitting in the sunshine on a country road in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, by a couple out walking on Sunday morning.

Scottish SPCA workers named it Mo after the double gold medallist as the reptile has proved to be a very fast runner.

Staff at the charity’s animal rescue and rehoming centre in Cardonald, Glasgow, are puzzled as to how it came to be in such a remote location. Inspector Stewart Taylor said: “There is a chance he has strayed from home, although we also have to consider that he may have been abandoned.”