Wild Exotics Animal Refuge

09/02/2024

🍂 September Events!
You can find us this month with Willys Wabbits 2.0, Associated Humane Popcorn Park Shelter & !

08/31/2024

🥬We hope you eat up during this long weekend! Support your local vegan eateries, and tell them we sent ya! 🌮🍕

08/27/2024

💖✨ A week’s worth of ways to help you own the next few days.. Provided by Miss B.. If you want to live like her, you have to act like her!✨💖

08/23/2024

🛁 Dust bath time!
Chinchillas cannot 🙅 get wet! This is because of the density of their fur. The high density of their ultra soft fur is too thick to allow moisture to dry properly, leading to fungal skin infections.
🤔 Sooo how do we clean them when they’re oily or dirty? We give them a dust bath! The dust that chinchillas bathe in, is specifically made and bought for them. It’s made out of volcanic minerals, which you may recognize as “pumice ash”. This dust gets in between those super thick fur strands, and absorbs any oils, moisture, and pushes out any unwanted dirtiness 🧼.
Which leaves us with a dusty white chinchilla, who will return to her normal color shortly after shaking off the remnants.

08/21/2024

There’s a whole lotta “please don’t make me get out of bed” going on today 🤔

08/18/2024

Before vs after we gave her a seed 🫣

08/17/2024

The face of someone who was just royally tricked beyond belief..
It’s become heavily known that Bean will do everything in her power to *not* eat greens. She only wants dog food, as that’s been a large majority of her diet for her whole life. Unless there is a small amount of greens disguised into a large amount of meat, she won’t eat it..
🥬 So, we had given Bean a variety of different lettuces and sprinkled egg yolk onto the leaves. Smelling the yolky goodness, she devoured the lettuce. It was a successful trick, but for her own benefit 🥰. It’s imperative that she begins to eat more veggies to help with a balanced diet and weight loss progression. We’re hoping that she will eventually become familiar with greens enough to where we won’t have to egg them up anymore.
🏆Score one for the humans, and score one for Bean’s diet progression.

08/14/2024

Comfy girl 🖤
Persephone is no stranger to getting cozied up in places that makes us question her🤣. She’s currently inside of a rock-hide. Except, she has lifted the hide off of the ground, and it’s basically dangling over her. P has an entire enclosure full of enrichment and hides, but insists on coiling up under the shortest one of all 🤔🤷‍♀️

08/14/2024

“Mmooommmm do I really have to get up and go to school?”

No, Bean, you don’t even go to school. But we have to turn your lights on 🤣

^ The exact conversation we share with Bean every morning.

08/12/2024

We had an educational seminar at the Lakewood Library today. This seminar was about the importance behind rescuing animals & education on the different species who come our way, and why they end up with us. Eighty-four of you showed up. 84. 84 adults, teens, and children, sat and listened about the exotic animal trade, and the issues animals within it face. That was incredible. Thank you for being interested in our mission.
🐢🖤🌱✌️

08/10/2024

🤔 What’s one of the things we always say about caring for the third largest tortoise species in the world? Oh yeah, they’re destructive!
Not just destructive to objects and property, but destructive to *themselves*, too. Pictured here is Chains, receiving a little in-house care. Why? Because he ripped one of his toenails off. Did he notice? Not at all. In fact, all he wants to do is push things out of the way and eat us out of house & home.
💅 How did he do this? We have no idea. Chains does so much adventuring, we would have to see a psychic to find out how it happened. Tortoise toenails are tough, and he clearly had to have been on some outdoor adventure.
🩹 He’s fine, his toenail will grow back, he doesn’t even know he lost it, and is more annoyed about us holding him than anything. This luckily happened on the portion of his foot that doesn’t touch the ground, which lessons our worries about irritation to the area. Chains will continue on his daily village stomping and ramming everyone down for food. This is your PSA to remember what you’re getting into when bringing a large tortoise species into your life (destruction, potential injuries, mental anguish), and to check their feeties during your daily rounds.

08/07/2024

👁️Have you ever taken a look at Yzma’s eyes? We are OBSESSED! For such a small animal, she has such a fierceness behind her💜.

08/05/2024

⭐️ Educational opportunity! *One week from today*
🐢 We will be at the Lakewood branch of the Ocean County Library System, on Monday the 12th, at 11am.
🦎 We will be talking about what we do, why we do it, why you should choose a rescued animal, and how you can help our mission!
🦜 You can register for this free edu opportunity on the OCL website (https://tinyurl.com/OclLaWEAR). Registration required.

08/04/2024

🤍To be in rescue, is to have a home cooked breakfast.
🍽️ Bean has been struggling to voluntarily want to eat greens & veggies. She isn’t too familiar with the variety of foods we put in front of her, so we have to work slowly and patiently. She is, however, a complete monster for a homemade omelet. Sneaking greens into her breakfasts seems to be the best way to go, similar to tricking a toddler into eating their vegetables. 🥕
Her weight loss is slow. Reptiles can hold onto fat far longer than mammals, and Bean is decently reclusive, making it a bit more difficult to work in physical exercise.
Nonetheless, we are welcoming the tail whips and hissing, as Bean slowly settles in with us, along with her new routine and diet.

08/03/2024

We recognize that shipping on our website adds up very quickly. Moving forward, any orders over $45 receive FREE SHIPPING. Must use code “FREESHIP45” at checkout to utilize this discount. 🐾✨
Shop: https://wildexoticsanimalrefuge.org/shop

08/02/2024

Happy August ❤. This month, our fundraising efforts will take place online, as opposed to in-person. People are eager to help us with funding during our in-person events, but not so much virtually. With today being the first Friday of the month, we figured it a perfect time to launch an August fundraiser! Will you donate to our Friday Fund for August? The animals will surely appreciate it🤗
For anyone who prefers not to donate through FB:
- PayPal: [email protected]
- Venmo: WILDEXOTICS
- CC donations can be made on our website: wearsaves.org
💗

08/01/2024

Our next batch of rescue story episodes for TikTok were filmed today💗. Yzma insisted on hanging out for every single one. She loves a good story time 📖🐍

08/01/2024

Got plans for August 12th?
We are asked to bring animals to events often, and we usually decline. We aren’t fans of bringing the exotics to places just to ‘attract attention’. If you’re familiar with us locally, then you know that we reside in an area where animals are treated like disposable toys. So, when it comes to our friends at the library, we utilize this opportunity to teach local residents about the sentience behind these animals, how important respect is towards all species, and why adoption is the way to go! This is a controlled safe space for the animals, and for the people.
We want to teach you love and compassion for all kinds, so, please register through the Lakewood Library for a short educational talk about making the world a better place for animals.🌱✌️🐢

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗲
Lakewood Branch • Monday, August 12 • 11 am
Register here: https://theoceancountylibrary.libnet.info/event/10899094

See live animals in the library and learn about animal rescue with Wild Exotics Animal Rescue (W.E.A.R.).

This program is sponsored by the Ocean County Library Foundation.

08/01/2024

Hello August! And hello animal supporters🖤
The entire month of August, we have zero physical fundraising events. (We do have a brief educational appearance coming up, but that’s it!!) We’ll be back in action again in September. July had been super busy, and it was physically hard. We are taking August to slow down and recoup. Summer is our busy season for fundraising, as winter is very dead. So as you can imagine, taking a month off is a bit of a concern for us. We can only help the animals, if we help ourselves first. So while we’ll be MIA in-person all of August, we *will* be doing new things online. We hope that you’ll join us in our online adventures, as it’ll be our only way to support the animals this month🫶🏼

07/31/2024

Will we see you at the Lakewood library on the 12th? We would love to share our compassion and knowledge of exotic rescue, with you all!☺️
Walk ins are certainly welcome, and you can also register here: https://tinyurl.com/OclLaWEAR

🌲🌳 Wilderness Wednesday in Ocean County! 🌳🌲

Rescue animals come in all types, shapes and sizes, and they can thrive in good homes. Teens, meet members of Wild Exotics Animal Refuge, learn about their mission and see some rescued snakes and lizards at the County Library Lakewood Branch, 11 AM Monday, August 12.
Members will discuss circumstances surrounding rescues and the steps involved to accept and care for animals in need. Everyone who attends will have a chance to experience the wonders of nature by seeing the reptiles up close.
Founded by Ocean County native Brittany Vanderstine, Lakehurst-based Animal Rescue.

is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that offers a haven for neglected exotic pets, accepts surrendered animals, works on rescues, gives medical care to exotic creatures and offers adoption services to qualified individuals.

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/OclLaWEAR for this free program, sponsored by the Ocean County Library Foundation (OCLF).

The Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization now in its 23rd year of supporting non-traditional Library services and programs not covered by tax dollars through fundraising and grant writing activities.

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07/30/2024

🐍 Many people seem to think that Yzma is a lot larger than she actually is! We do a lot of close-up content of her, which can make her proportions seem a little confusing 🤔. Here is a Rob sized human, next to a Yzma sized snake. We hope this provides a better scale of her size 🙂‍↔️.

07/28/2024

Bean is very tired today. Not because she spent the entire day celebrating or fundraising at yesterday, (that must’ve been us humans) but just because she is huge and lazy. We love her, and we are so thankful for everyone who came out to support her and the other exotic rescues over the weekend.
Bean would like more grapes now💁‍♀️ 🍇

07/27/2024

Pheonixville, come find us! We’re at spreading the word of exotic rescue 🖤🌱

07/26/2024

It’s Friday, which means it’s not yet Saturday. The animals don’t want to get out of bed, and frankly, neither do we🤷

07/24/2024

🥬 We’re sure that you’re tired of hearing us talk about our friend . Too bad! She’s a local legend, and really great friend. We met Haley in a comment section on a township page a few months ago, and when she heard about our mission to rescue exotic animals, she was all-in. Because of her, we were the GOA at Hippie Witch. Every week, she collects produce donations for the tortoises, and we share it with . She’s done numerous fundraisers for us in the past (and better be doing them in the future). Haley is a generally kind person who wants to spread positivity and lend a helping hand. In turn, we ask you guys to go check out her business (). She’s a metaphysical queen 💅 with a family to feed. Take a second to follow her and view her products 🤗

07/24/2024

🗣️ You asked. We delivered.
☀️ Wild Exotics tank tops. Now available on our website. https://wildexoticsanimalrefuge.org/shop/apparel
🐢 Please be mindful that our rescue does not receive the entirety of each sale for this specific collection. (Any clothing with our new logo is part of this third party collection). A third party prints these shirts, and sends them directly to you, without our involvement. Because of this, we receive a small cut of the profits. So when you say “Holy Moly! These aren’t cheap!” It’s because we have to price them accordingly enough to where the animals get a little sumthin’ sumthin’.
🛍️ We have A TON of other clothing and merchandise on our website, that we receive full funding from. Shop until you drop. If you’d like to purchase multiple items and shipping is high, shoot us a message and we’ll figure out a discount for you 🖤

07/23/2024

Persephone is about to shed! We can tell because she’s In Blue. When “In Blue”, P will become very reclusive. She won’t explore, climb, or be very active. Her eyesight becomes clouded, appearing to be a blueish color, and her ability to see decreases heavily. We leave her alone during this time, as not to spook her or accidentally get bit. We mist her enclosure a little extra during this time, to help her shed easier 🌧️💙

07/22/2024

A chubby little face to make your Monday morning a little brighter ☀️