As teachers pivoted to online learning last school year, some faced a unique challenge: what would happen to their class pets? Central Ohio teachers scrambled to find surrogate homes for their turtles ...

For being only about three inches long and silent, Walter sure knows how to command attention. Named after teacher Jill Walters, Walter is a painted turtle and is the fourth grade's class pet at Cody ...

Boxer the Turtle has been a fixture at Eisenhower Elementary for at least 50 years. Each year, the students sing "Happy Birthday" to the class pet.

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - A class pet turtle in Beaufort County, named Ms. Chompers, is recovering from what deputies say could be an acid attack and stabbing that was caught on camera. In ...

“Hoppers” begins with perhaps the lowliest of tamed animals – a class pet. We meet a tiny turtle (his name is Crush, according to the sign by his cage). All is quiet, but then – quite suddenly – he is ...