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Taking a turtle for a walk requires lots of patience and understanding. This is the Eastern Box Turtle that we got in a couple months ago that had severe eye trauma to both eyes. Left eye is gone 😔 right eye is doing better but we still don’t know if she can see out of it. Shes been inside healing since intake and today is the first time she’s been out in the sun since she’s been in quarantine so her eye could heal properly. It’s also the first time I’ve seen her stretch her neck out and be act

Our Eastern Box Turtles have came out of brumation and they are hungry! So we are making sure that they have lots of good things to eat in their outdoor habitat. This morning they all got some yummy nightcrawlers 🪱 These turtles are omnivorous and will eat almost anything, including berries, insects, roots, flowers, eggs, and amphibians. They reach maturity at 10 to 20 years old and can live to be more than 100 years old! Please let them be if seen unhurt in the wild. If missing eyes, limbs or

Our Eastern Box Turtle patients often burrow under foliage, leaf litter, and soil in their enclosures, just as they do in the wild 🍂! Eastern Box turtles can be found in a range of habitats, from meadows to woods. But they seem to prefer moist deciduous forests. This makes good sense because box turtles, like many other animals, overwinter under leaf litter and enjoy the nutrient-rich, moist environment it creates year-round! So when you go to rake your leaves this fall, remember our box turtle