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So much for a getaway  -  Oct 20, 2008
St. Joseph News-Press,...by Ahmad Safi Mark Werner and his daughter Becky Peery have been busy keeping track of their family’s African Spurred tortoise. This is the second time Emma

'Water, wings' event opens new Polk nature center  -  Nov 2, 2008
News Chief,Friday, November 01 ,2008 Seven year old Sarah Drever holds a one and a half year old African spurred tortoise Saturday morning at the Circle B Bar reserve.

BRIEFS: Millbrae Post Office goes automated  -  Sep 17, 2008
Burlingame Daily News,The 25-pound African spurred tortoise got out of his cage Monday morning and took off into the campus of Mercy High School, which borders the family's back

Society remains true to turtles  -  Sep 13, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,...usually die from old age, but from infection, injury or illness,� Kim Thomas said as Piggy, a 130-pound African spurred tortoise, nipped at his feet.

Traveling Show Brings Exotic Animals to Calgary  -  Sep 7, 2008
The Epoch Times,Showcasing animals such as monitor lizards, bull snakes, albino boa constrictors and a 28 year old, 70-lb African spurred tortoise named “Father Time,� the

Heard Around Town: The six degrees of Lizzie Borden  -  Jul 25, 2008
The Salem News,They brought the turtle home, took a cell phone picture of it and showed it to an employee at PetSmart, who told them it was an African spurred tortoise.

Jackson festival shines under sun  -  Jul 20, 2008
The Tribune-Democrat,Along with llamas, donkeys, goats and ducks, the park brought along its 25-year-old African spurred tortoise that weighs 100 pounds.

More  -  Jul 19, 2008
Sunday Leader (subscription),...blue eared pheasant, the golden pheasant, the Lady Amhearst Pheasant, an African spurred tortoise and the pair of anacondas," Peiris explained.

Getting in touch with nature on Earth Day  -  Apr 20, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,Children squealed while touching or sitting on a 15-year-old African spurred tortoise named Tank, while adults cringed at the sight of some kids getting

Mascoutah Silver Creek Mill hosts crafts day  -  Feb 13, 2008
Suburban Journals,The African spurred tortoise that will be a pet at the adult developmental disability services office, Trinity Services Inc., in Mascoutah is: "Banjo.

Man who tortured tortoise sentenced  -  Nov 6, 2007
Ventura County Star,By Raul Hernandez (Contact) Courtesy of Christi Vaughan A 40-pound African spurred tortoise named Bob was abducted July 7 from his owner's backyard,

Teen Gets Jail for Mutilating Autistic Boy's Pet Tortoise  -  Nov 6, 2007
FOX NewsProsecutors said he snatched a 40-pound African spurred tortoise named Bob from a Ventura backyard on July 7, slashed its legs and neck, punctured its shell

Family's Pain Continues In Tortured Tortoise Case  -  Nov 6, 2007
NBC Sandiego.com,Prosecutors said Mosqueda snatched the 40-pound African spurred tortoise from a backyard on July 7, slashed its legs and neck, punctured its shell and threw

Suspect in tortoise mutilation sentenced to jail, probation  -  Nov 5, 2007
Ventura County Star,The 40-pound African spurred tortoise was abducted July 7 from his owner's backyard, slashed and later dumped behind an apartment complex in Ventura.

Teen gets jail time, has to give up his pets, after mutilation of ...  -  Nov 6, 2007
WLFI.com,Prosecutors say he snatched a 40-pound African spurred tortoise from a backyard in July, slashed its legs and neck and punctured its shell.

Teenage tortoise torturer gets jail  -  Nov 6, 2007
Earthtimes,Mosqueda pleaded no contest in September to felony animal cruelty after prosecutors said he snatched a 20-kilogram African spurred tortoise named Bob,

Paying heed to the call of the wild  -  Nov 9, 2007
News Virginian,For a few summer months, the Wildlife Center of Virginia had Morty, the African spurred tortoise working through its halls. Bigger than a hubcap,

Turtle the tortoise turns up  -  Oct 12, 2007
VillageSoup Belfast,By Holly S. Anderson APPLETON (Oct 12): The story of Turtle, the African spurred tortoise that slowly walked away from his pen in Appleton Sept.

Wayward tortoise returned to Santa Cruz home  -  Oct 9, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,By JM Brown Panga, a Sulcata African Spurred Tortoise, is reunited with her owner Gregg Kirksey in Santa Cruz, California on Monday October 8,

Older & Bigger Addition to South Texas Family  -  Oct 19, 2007
WOAI,Technically, she thinks it's an African Spurred Tortoise. "Having this turtle around us is like joy," said Julie. And she's spreading that joy to her family

Rare tortoise found walking in Santa Cruz street  -  Oct 8, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,A giant tortoise SPCA officials have identified as an endangered male African spurred tortoise slowly crawled around the shelter's outside waiting room,

Endangered tortoise found prowling Santa Cruz neighborhood  -  Oct 8, 2007
CBS 47,...(AP) - An endangered male African spurred tortoise has been found wandering around the streets in a Santa Cruz neighborhood. The giant tortoise was spotted

BamBam Has Been Found  -  Oct 4, 2007
TheDenverChannel.com,The 6 year old African Spurred Tortoise disappeared from the backyard of a home in the Stonegate subdivision in Parker Saturday after workers accidentally

Midwest Museum offers education and fun without  -  Sep 26, 2007
Northern Star Online,Other live animals at the museum include Hercules, an African spurred tortoise the size of a small television, and a boa constrictor named Princess.

Talkers: Family pleased with return of mutilated tortoise  -  19 Aug 2007
Kansas City Star,The 25-year-old African spurred tortoise, Bob, heartily ate a meal of hibiscus flowers and roses — his first since having a feeding tube pulled from his

Tortoise back home after stay at rehabilitation center  -  Aug 18, 2007
KTVO,Days later, police found the 25-year-old African spurred tortoise behind an apartment complex. His hind legs were badly cut, a toe was cut off,

Police Arrest Man for Torturing Tortoise  -  Jul 20, 2007
Forbes,The 25-year-old African spurred tortoise, named Bob, was slashed and stabbed after being stolen from the home of an autistic boy. After he was brutalized,

Tortured SoCal tortoise healing, officials say  -  Jul 31, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle,The 25-year-old African spurred tortoise belongs to Dorothy and Bill Sullivan of Ventura and is a special friend to their 6-year-old autistic son,

Not guilty plea in tortoise case  -  Jul 24, 2007
KGET 17,The African spurred tortoise is out of critical care and recovering at an animal rehabilitation center in Montecito. Mosqueda is being represented by the

Missing tortoise back home  -  Jul 24, 2007
Los Angeles Daily News,Deal's African spurred tortoise, which she reported stolen to sheriff's deputies Thursday, surfaced Saturday in a neighbor's yard, ending a mysterious

A Turtle’s Dream Come True  -  Aug 9, 2007
The Santa Barbara Independent,...the now-famous 42-pound African spurred tortoise, who survived the darkest whims of human nature when he was stolen from his Ventura home on July 7 and

Not guilty plea in tortoise case  -  Jul 24, 2007
Ventura County Star (subscription),The African spurred tortoise, who was abducted, slashed and mutilated, is now out of critical care and recovering at an animal rehabilitation center in

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