1.   Erin Green, visiting from Iowa, is carting home two small pet turtles and a decorative umbrella.

2.   Fighting back tears, Ahn handed over several rings and a small gold turtle that her children gave her on her sixtieth birthday.

3.   He killed a rabbit by snapping its neck, crushed a small turtle with his foot and strangled a cat with its leash.

4.   Ten years ago, children at Cali-Camp Summer Day Camp in Topanga tried to move a small turtle across a computer screen.

5.   Two small turtles plucked from the smoldering ashes of the park were the only animals known to have survived, park officials said.

6.   Their skin was used for wallets and shoes and their oil employed in cosmetics, it said, adding that small turtles are sometimes sold to tourists as pets.