Animal photos

• This week saw turtles making headlines in the U.S. In Georgia, over 1,000 turtles made a slow-motion escape from a farm after their vandals may have torn down fences around their ponds, reported AP.
(Huffington Post)
• They couldn't wait to get their paws on what has become a twice yearly event at the zoo where hundreds of spectators took their photos and held their children high during a four-hour event.
(Montgomery Advertiser)
• LOS ANGELES — For elephants to fly, you have to do more than load trunks on a plane. Pat Derby, co-founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, has been working for two years to get three 10,000-pound elephants in the air.
(Huffington Post)
• Organize and assist with adoption events. • Post photos of adoptable animals online. • Provide financial assistance to help pet owners spay and neuter animals to reduce the unwanted population.
(NBCNews.com)
• Over half of British adults (52%) say that if they saw an animal being mistreated abroad on holiday it would put them off visiting that country again.      (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Bradley and Marganski say they've already found homes for a few animals by posting photos and information about the pets on the Facebook page, which last week saw an extensive debate among locals about the volunteer proposal.
(New Haven Register)
• Certainly don't want anyone out in a goat suit at that time. Coty Creighton claims he's the hiker who took the photos near the Ben Lomond Peak, which is home to a variety of animals, including moose, deer and mountain goats.
(Daily Mail)
• SPOKANE, Wash. - On Wednesday The City of Spokane Prosecutors Office  moved forward with prosecution of an upsetting case of animal cruelty. The arraignment of Laneva M. Erskine on nine counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty proceeded today.
(NBCNews.com)
• It wouldnt be an award show celebrating Hollywoods young without some Demi Lovato. The actress made her way to the 2012 Teen Choice Awards and wowed the red carpet with a sexy multi-textured Aztec print dress with frill trimmings.
(Global Grind)
• he covered the walls with his pictures of animals, wildlife, nature, his two sons, his wife, people he once knew, places he once visited. Beneath his bed were bins of unsorted photographs, negatives and photo albums.
(Orlando Sentinel)