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I hope they hind him too. A couple of years ago my Hermanns tortoise escaped from the corral in the front yard & spent the night out on his own. The next morning I found him sunning on the sidewalk in front of my house.
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DAILY SOUTHTOWN (Chicago, Illinois) 30 June 05 Well, it can't have gone too far - Escaped pet tortoise worth $1,000 to whoever finds him (Gregg Sherrard Blesch)
As an Orland Park family continued its search for a pet tortoise six days on the lam, a Chicago company on Wednesday promised $1,000 for the reptile's safe return.
Kim Heinemann, who attends Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, recently brought the tortoise along for a stay at her family's home in Orland Park. The desert tortoise, named Michelangelo, or Mikey, dug under a backyard fence and hit the road June 23.
Tipsters responding to Mikey's plight — spread by newspapers, radio, posters and fliers — have contacted Heinemann and police departments. None so far had brought him home.
Ariel Capital Management LLC, which uses Aesop's "slow but steady" tortoise as a logo representing its investment approach, stepped forward with the $1,000 bounty offer.
A woman driving through Palos Hills on Southwest Highway called police Wednesday morning after she thought she spotted the reptile.
Palos Hills police swept parking lots in the area around 111th Street and Southwest Highway, about four miles from Heinemann's home. They came up empty.
Orland Park animal control officer Steve Stronk said many callers have reported possible sightings. Most, though, seem to have been snapping turtles, Stronk said.
The snapping turtles, common in the marshy Southland, can be as large as the missing tortoise, a foot long and 22 pounds.
The snapping turtles, though, have dark gray, algae-covered shells, clearly distinguishable from the tortoise's brown, spikey armor.
Stronk planned to lead community service officers on a search of the area around Heinemann's home today, a service the village routinely extends to families with lost pets.
Heinemann fears her tortoise may have traveled far beyond the terrain he could have covered at his own pace, which is about 7 miles per day.A witness who called Heinemann reported that a man and two teenagers in a white pickup absconded with a tortoise near the family's home on the day Mikey escaped. Another said she attended a graduation party in Calumet City where a turtle fitting Mikey's description was given as a gift.
Escaped pet tortoise worth $1,000 to whoever finds him

DAILY SOUTHTOWN (Chicago, Illinois) 07 July 05 Tortoise reward doubles
The reward for the missing desert tortoise Michelangelo has increased to $2,000 from $1,000 with a contribution by the Chicago Reptile House.
The Reptile House, in Orland Park, is the second business to donate money for the return of the tortoise that belongs to college student Kim Heinemann.
Anyone who may have spotted Mikey may contact Kim or Jenny Heinemann at (708) 448-7851 or e-mail kimberlyA44@aol.com.
Tortoise reward doubles