We had a big beautiful tegu named Beetlejuice that was surrendered yesterday. This is not a story for the faint of heart, as the heartbreak of this family surrenendering Beetlejuice was filled with only memories of his previous owner.
Beetlejuice and his owner lived in Austin, Texas and we will use the letter G for his owner name.
G had bought Beetlejuice as a baby, and did so much research on owning tegu’s. G spent day and night bonding and creating a bond of love and trust. G’s dream pet was a Tegu.
G brought home Beetlejuice in 2019, and sadly was passed away, at the hands of a criminal.
With the grief of his wife and family, Beetlejuice, was the only living memory that they could hold onto, and his wife being severely physically disabled, they had a family friend caring for Beetlejuice. Unfortunately, there was no knowledge of tegu care and husbandry and Beetlejuice was not handled for the next 5 years.
With the help and encouragement of G’s sisters, they convinced the heartbroken family, to finally surrender him to NTRR.
Beetlejuice is emaciated, extremely dehydrated, has severe MBD.
Beetlejuice juice has a very long road of rehabilitation and recovery. He will be seeing our exotic vet this week, for an emergency appointment.
We see and hear so many stories about reptiles that were not cared for properly. THIS is not one of those stories. This is about grief and loss for the family, but mostly for G’s beloved Beetlejuice.
We will keep his sisters updated on his journey to recovery, as they drove all the way to Central Texas, in the rain and cold to pick up Beetlejuice and then back to Plano, last night.
Their was lots of tears, as they said goodbye, but they were beyond grateful knowing that Beetlejuice is in our rescue and he will be loved and well cared for, until we find him his forever home.
To support Beetlejuice and his recovery, including vet visits, husbandry needs, food, and his long term care, please visit our link tree on ou
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Sugar Ray’s Passing
For those of you who don’t know, Sugar Ray was a bearded dragon that came to our president all the way from Georgia. He had a broken jaw in three different places and had to have reconstructive surgery. He was obviously a very special dragon to not only our president, Michelle, but to her followers and our community. This morning when doing morning lights and checking on everyone, Michelle had found that Sugar Ray had passed away in his sleep. He was not showing any signs of illness so this was unexpected. We know he was at least 10-11 years old but she did not expect to find him gone this morning. Please send your prayers as our hearts are hurting. 💔😢
Harmony, a female, juvenile Black and White tegu is looking for her forever home.
Harmony has a wonderful disposition, and is at the perfect age to continue bonding and handling with her new family.
Harmony has a fantastic feeding response, and she is being tap trained outside of her enclosure, to help her with any food aggression.
Due to her age, Harmony is not showing any signs of brumation, or hibernation for reptiles.
Harmony needs a large enclosure or grow tent.
Tegu’s are truly amazing, intelligent reptiles and Harmony has such a sweet and gentle presence about her. She just needs that perfect family to give her all the love she deserves.
For information about Harmony and adopting Harmony, please contact Aimee Zissa at 214-402-8198.
B-MO
B-Mo A leopard gecko surrendered in pretty bad shape. He needs all the prayers and donations! Please help if you can, this is gonna be one heck of a fight but we are ready to stand by him. To donate: Venmo: NTRR2024PayPal: KatherineCrow79Cash App: $NtreptilerescueZelle: 214-717-3712#ReptileRescue #ReptileLove #ntrr #exotic #exoticreptile #reptile #fyp #foryoupage #medical #leopardgecko #sick #animalabuse #texas #dfw #northtexasreptilerescue
Good Morning Reptile Friends and Family,
Aimee Zissa here.
We have some 40 gallon top opening enclosures, lids, of many different sizes, 10,20,40 gallon lids, and one big beautiful arboreal pvc mesh enclosure for arboreal lizards.
The lids and top opening enclosures are free of charge and will be porch pick up only in Plano, Tx.
The Arboreal enclosure is $50 and can be cash or sent to our rescue payments for rescue funds.
As the 40 gallon enclosures are free, we would greatly appreciate, a donation of paper towels so that we can provide our reptile rescue the needed supplies.
Please message me for address. We need these gone asap, so that I can get into my garage.
The arboreal enclosure is not free.
Unfortunately, the glass enclosures are just to heavy and I am getting to old to be moving them around.
Truly appreciate it.
Please message me, Aimee Zissa at 214-402-8198 for setting up a time to come by and pick up the enclosure.
Please message me and not clog the rescue page, as the other board members will not have any idea on the times or items available.
I can not hold items. This is first come. You will need to have a time set up to pick up any of the enclosures.
Once I get your message, I’ll pm you my address.
I really appreciate it and thank you for the extra paper towels.
Firefly is such a beautiful ball python. Firefly is a healthy and free from respiratory infection, however, Firefly is underweight and needs a couple more feedings to put on some more weight.
For adoption information please contact Aimee for information on this beautiful ball python.
Caspin Goes To The Vet
Thank you Dr. Siu for taking such good care of Caspin. Following her clean bill of health we found the perfect home for her where she will eventually be able to make some friends with other crocodiles. For now she will spend time acclimating in her own pond. We are so happy for the perfect happily ever after for this sweet Caiman!
Inky is one of several medical cases that we have taken in recently. Some of those medical cases were emergencies.
To continue helping all of these babies we could use your support! Every donation, no matter how big or small, makes a difference!
If you are in a position to help you can do so with any of these methods:
To donate:
Venmo: NTRR2024
PayPal: KatherineCrow79
Cash App: $Ntreptilerescue
Zelle: 214-717-3712
#ReptileRescue #ReptileLove #ntrr #exotic #reptile #exoticreptile #beardeddragon #northtexasreptilerescue #fyp #foryoupage #medical
These are just a few of the dragons that belong to our Adoption and Foster Coordinator, Susan. Tell us which of these photos is your favorite. AND share a photo of one of your pets (scaly or not) in their spooktacular Halloween costume!
