Sonoma County Reptile Rescue

This is one of our trucks for Sonoma County reptile rescue if you see it around the Bay Area you'll know what it is

I always seem to be posting about snakes but we receive over 200 red-eared sliders hear and almost 60 Western pond turtles unfortunately a fair amount get hit by cars and myself and dr. Dan Famini are veterinarian work on repairing them fixing the shelves and letting them go we have new ways patching together their shells and some newer medications but we seem to work on about 1 a week that needs emergency care this year we seem to be doing better average of saving two out of three of them but there are some that still don't make it we actually get so many turtles in we have a turtle drop off tub at the rescue along with a rattlesnake drop off Barrel I haven't counted this year how many we've received yet but I know it's well over a hundred fifty we do hot find homes for every one of them Sonoma County seems to be lucky with a lot of ponds especially private one so people are able to give the turtles homes the native Western Pond turtle I'll let go back in the areas that need them we recently had a fairly large release at Lake Sonoma at the fishery that's run by Fish and Wildlife thanks for reading this post

I was working at Petaluma or North Bay Animal Services yesterday and this is just one of those things I do