10/11/2025
We are at risk of shutting our doors permanently. We are already turning away severe medical cases because we can’t afford the vet bills that comes with them, and who knows what happens to those animals then :(
We have tried to raise money in other ways like the creation of “friends of ruby’s reptiles”, an instagram group chat that gets insider information on the rescue, the animals and how it is run, but apart from 3 people, nobody else has joined.
In October alone we spent over £1,000 on the rescue. This included vets bills, food, supplements and other necessities and received £40 in standalone donations. We hate that we have to come online and beg for donations, but that has not been working.
If we don’t start receiving donations soon, we are going to have to permanently close down, leaving a massive gap in aid for reptiles in our area and the UK. We really do not want to do this, but we receive no funding or grants or any government support. We do this all ourselves and from the donations you guys give!
What a permanent closure would look like: we would remain open for advice until all current rescues are adopted out. Once all rescues have been adopted we would shut our website down. We would keep our instagram open for anyone that has any questions but after a while would likely shut this down too. This would leave only one other reptile rescue in the south wales area open. We do not want this to happen and the work we do is honestly too important for this.
So please, donate, share and support the work we do before it’s too late ❤️
