Wild Exotics Animal Refuge

Wild Exotics Animal Refuge Ⓥ NJ 501c(3) Nonprofit. Saving unwanted and abused small exotic animals.

Day 5 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:🖤 Those who came to visit our events! 2024 was a hard year for us to make ...
01/09/2025

Day 5 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:
🖤 Those who came to visit our events!
2024 was a hard year for us to make it to, host, or be involved in events. It takes a lot of mental and physical work to be involved so heavily with publicly fundraising. So, to see people show up to support our cause was wicked cool. Regardless if you were someone who showed up to donate, or to hug us, you fueled our fire enough to get us to the next event.
We are always so busy that we fail to take enough photos with everyone. So many attending humans and festivals aren’t pictured here, but you’re certainly pictured in our minds and hearts. Thank you. 🙏

Day 4 of being thankful for those who helped us in 2024:🫶🏼 Other rescues! We regularly talk to and work with other rescu...
01/08/2025

Day 4 of being thankful for those who helped us in 2024:
🫶🏼 Other rescues! We regularly talk to and work with other rescues in the area, regarding a variety of species! We’re all ‘in it’ for the same reason, so why not love each other? That’s exactly what we all do 😚
If you’re one of our rescue friends reading this and going “but what did I do to help them?” You were our FRIENDS! Being our friend is enough 🫶🏼🫶🏼

Day 3 of thanking those who helped us in 2024: 🧚‍♂️Haley had seriously made some s**t happen for us in 2024. You can als...
01/07/2025

Day 3 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:
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Haley had seriously made some s**t happen for us in 2024. You can also find her, and our other friends in .nurture444. Without the help of local businesses and good-hearted humans, we probably would’ve been struggling hardcore last year. Haley put so much effort into helping us, we still can’t wrap our heads around the kindness. She’s become an incredibly close friend, and we just downright dig her. Going into 2025, please give our friends a follow, so they can receive even a portion of the support that they gave to us. 🖤
🐢 Chains came with us to pick up our weekly produce donation from , which we split with . Everyone was certainly excited to meet the little man with the loud burps 😮‍💨

Day 2 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:💚 . Locally found in Howell, NJ, GSWC has helped us time and time again wi...
01/06/2025

Day 2 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:
💚 . Locally found in Howell, NJ, GSWC has helped us time and time again with an array of species. They’ve helped us with enclosures for the tortoises, fostering unexpected animals, hospice care, general care, and all-around support. This is an org that wears their heart on their sleeve, and we owe many, many thanks to. When people say “It takes a village”, they’re not joking! It takes a village, a couple organizations, and then some🙏🫶🏼
🦝 Please go give our friends a follow, to support the work they do!

Day 1 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:🖤 Volunteers. We are a super small gig, and rarely ever need volunteers. B...
01/05/2025

Day 1 of thanking those who helped us in 2024:
🖤 Volunteers. We are a super small gig, and rarely ever need volunteers. But, occasionally, we’ll need help at fundraising events, or educational talks. When those sparse moments arise, that help is heavily needed. We are incredibly thankful for those who choose to come out, even when it means not directly interacting with the animals. Those hot summer days were killer, and we are so grateful that we had our handful of friends who beared the heat for the critters!

01/05/2025

We would like to highlight some of the people/businesses that have helped us so tremendously in 2024. Keep an eye out in the coming days, to see yourself in our thank-you posts💗

Yzma’s most recent egg dinner was a bit….messy. Let’s just say, she needed a bath afterwards😬➡️ What you see here, is Yz...
01/03/2025

Yzma’s most recent egg dinner was a bit….messy. Let’s just say, she needed a bath afterwards😬
➡️ What you see here, is Yz soaking in a very shallow tub. Yzma floats on water, so her bath water level is very minimal. Any yolk that was all over her belly has been soaked off, we didn’t have to chase after an (extremely fast) floating snake, and the bath water was warm. It was a good day 👍🛁

Humans that have stayed with us up until now, thank you! Please take this visual representation of our love and apprecia...
01/01/2025

Humans that have stayed with us up until now, thank you! Please take this visual representation of our love and appreciation, and know that we truly mean it. If it was physically possible to envelope all of you in a crunchy bite-hug, we would certainly be doing so. Until then, please take this Miss B visual as our token of gratitude.
🖤 Thanks for supporting our little corner of the world, and we hope to still see you around in 2025🎉

You’ve heard of the saying “Snug as a bug” but have you heard “Snug as a pair of tortoises in a cat bed”? No? Now you ha...
12/30/2024

You’ve heard of the saying “Snug as a bug” but have you heard “Snug as a pair of tortoises in a cat bed”? No? Now you have 🙂
Ourselves and were doing extra prep for this incredibly cold weather, and in updating some of the heat accessibility, Alice and Chains took up cuddle time🥰
Will you be snug as a tortoise this winter? 🐢❄️

Happy Saturday 🖤 In making our animal rounds, there was a brief moment of cuddle time with this fur ball of a chinchilla...
12/28/2024

Happy Saturday 🖤 In making our animal rounds, there was a brief moment of cuddle time with this fur ball of a chinchilla!💞
Opposite to many of our sanctuary animals, chinchillas actually prefer the cold! So while all of the desert or tropical animals are in warm or moist enclosures, the chinchillas prefer a cool room with minimal moisture. 🐭

🎁💝Happy Holidays, from our animals, caretakers, and volunteers. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and 202...
12/25/2024

🎁💝Happy Holidays, from our animals, caretakers, and volunteers. We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and 2025 brings you many blessings and warmth🖤

Persephone is about to start her shedding process. We can tell by the hue of her eyes, changing into a darker color💙🌨️ W...
12/21/2024

Persephone is about to start her shedding process. We can tell by the hue of her eyes, changing into a darker color💙
🌨️ What better time to slow down than the first snowfall?

Alice visited her chinchilla friends on the way to bath time today🛁. As you can see, she was not amused. Alice isn’t a p...
12/18/2024

Alice visited her chinchilla friends on the way to bath time today🛁. As you can see, she was not amused. Alice isn’t a people-person. Or, perhaps, a chinchilla-tortoise would be better fitting. 🐭🐢

Have you ever asked yourself “I wonder what a tortoise does when visiting a library?”. Wonder no more. The answer: They ...
12/17/2024

Have you ever asked yourself “I wonder what a tortoise does when visiting a library?”. Wonder no more. The answer: They drag things around and knock things down.
🐢 Chains will accompany us occasionally when doing Rescue Talks. We attend our local libraries to talk to the community behind the importance of adopting (not shopping), and the horrors behind the exotic pet trade. Chains was part of the exotic pet trade, before coming to our refuge. He is an incredibly social and curious animal, and seems to be a fantastic teacher. While we’re tidying up after our educational talks, Chains enjoys a nice stroll to stretch his tiny legs. During his beautiful strolls, he drags chairs around, pushes anything in his way, and moans loudly. (The moaning is typical, he’s a vocal tortoise.)
📚 Library, we love you. Please forgive the trampling that is our tortoise. He means well 💚

! Miss B takes this day very seriously. She…..always has mixed emotions. But, today is Monday, so it is justified 🤷‍♀️
12/16/2024

! Miss B takes this day very seriously. She…..always has mixed emotions. But, today is Monday, so it is justified 🤷‍♀️

Are you familiar with our favorite bottom feeder? Julius is a Dojo Loach that was surrendered to us with his companion, ...
12/15/2024

Are you familiar with our favorite bottom feeder? Julius is a Dojo Loach that was surrendered to us with his companion, Ivory the Zebra Fish. Ivory is alive and well, and an incredibly fast swimmer. So, in terms of photos, we have zero-to-none. On the opposite side of the spectrum, our main man Julius loves to lay low and eat his grub.🍽️

Oh miss Beanie 💗 How could you possibly get cuter? (Or cozier?!)
12/13/2024

Oh miss Beanie 💗 How could you possibly get cuter? (Or cozier?!)

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If there’s one thing that can calm Miss B down after a long day, it’s hijacking a noodle from the closest victim’s plate😳

If there’s one thing tortoises are good at, it’s pacing themselves 💚

People are always surprised to hear that tortoises can absolutely feel you touching their shells! Their shells are a part of their bodies, not just something they live in. Touching them on a regular basis gets them much more comfortable with us, and helps tremendously during vet visits! Incase there’s ever a medical emergency, and a vet needs access to their limbs, they are less likely to be scared or pull their limbs inside their shells, as they are used to being touched by humans. 🩺 🐢#tortoise #sulcata #reptilerescue #reptile #exoticanimals #exoticpets #animalwelfare #vegan

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