Wild Exotics Animal Refuge

10/06/2025

🤎 Meet Pedro! 🤎
Pedro is estimated to be 5-6 months old, and came into our rescue last night. Already, he’s been so friendly and social. He is very calm, happy, and curious. He is currently in a foster home with kids and has other animals in view. Pedro has been doing well with socialization and is waiting to find his forever family! He is ready to be loved and laughed with, for his goofiness.
🦎Pedro will be in quarantine with his fosters for a little while (this is standard for new animals), but you can still apply for his adoption at wearsaves.org
📍 NJ

10/03/2025

📚 This Sunday, we are bringing exotic animal rescue education to the Queen City Reads Festival in
Plainfield NJ!
This is a FREE community event centered around providing literature and education to the community.
We’ve partnered with for this amazing opportunity, and we sincerely hope to see everyone go home with a book (or two!) and a new compassion for animals 🐾💚🐢

10/01/2025

Forever mourned, always needed.

The Jane Goodall Institute has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.

09/30/2025

“Honestly, the sale of guinea pigs needs to be made illegal in pet stores or something. Every single day I wake up and have 10 guinea pig surrender requests. I truly mean daily. Guinea pigs are sitting at our rescue 6+ months with no interest. It is soul crushing. It's like trying to empty the ocean with a spoon. We have very limited resources, we don't have the ability to house the hundreds of guinea pigs in need. It is just never enough 💔 please everyone stop buying guinea pigs from pet stores! ”

09/30/2025

💛 Meet Banana Peel. Banana Peel is a female Candino Ball Python, approx around 1 year old. She was surrendered to us today, and will be up for adoption in early-mid October. ✨ We want to spend some time getting her hydrated and fed, but you can apply for her adoption in the meantime, at wearsaves.org 🌼
📍 NJ

09/26/2025

⭐️ Late night announcement: ADOPTED! ⭐️
Pilot, the last of his siblings, has finally found his forever home 💚
We were contacted very recently, from someone who had just lost their special needs bearded dragon, whom they adored very much. In a final act of love, the caretaker decided to give another rescued dragon, a second shot as life. Through our friends and specialists at Nautilus, this amazing person was sent right to us.
After 2 months and dozens of people filling out applications, and not responding when we asked for proof of enclosure, we are so relieved to have found someone who cares so deeply.
Pilot, you’re going to have so much fun 💙

09/24/2025

🤍 We are devastated to share that Yoshi, our most recent leopard gecko surrender, has passed on. Yoshi had been sick since 2023 with mouth rot, and sadly, despite the caretakers attempted efforts, she never got better. Our amazing specialists scheduled her into clinic as quick as they could, but she unfortunately did not live long enough to make it there. Whether she was rushed in, or waited a few days, her mouth rot was so severe, that is spread throughout her body, long before she got to us.
Could Yoshi’s illness have been prevented or stopped within the last few years? Yes. Are we glad that she was brought to us at some point? Yes. Our only comfort is that she spent her last few days, cozied and loved intensely 🤍
Friends, Yoshi was loved, but we need to be mindful of being on top of our animals. When they get sick, we need to be 100% sure that they get better, instead of waiting to see if it resolves without further intervention 🩷

09/22/2025

Splish splash! 🦔✨ Hedgehogs don’t need frequent baths, but sometimes a gentle warm soak is part of their skin and hygiene care. Sadly, many end up in rescues like ours because people don’t realize how specialized their needs are.
Sugar enjoyed her spa day, to take care of her skin after experiencing quill loss due to stress, stemming from her prior living situation. 💙 Every day, we see further improvements in her🦔

09/21/2025

As Sunday winds down, Pilot is wishing he had a forever family to call his own. Could your home be the one he finally gets cozy in? You can give Pilot all the love he deserves, by applying for his adoption!
👉You can do so here: wearsaves.org
💻 You can click on our drop-down menu, to find “Adopt & Foster” 💚
🦎 Pilot is the only baby bearded dragon left in our rescue, and we’re shocked he hasn’t found his family yet ❤️‍🩹

09/21/2025

Let’s talk about Renn, our newest Anole surrender. If you’ve been keeping up with our TikTok, then you know that we’ve been working to spread public awareness about Saint George’s Dragon Orphanage. Let’s dive into it. ⬇️
On September 16th, we received an email from someone who attended a renaissance faire, and bought a lizard from someone selling “dragons”, marketing them as great for kids, with minimal care. The care described was despicable and a death sentence. After reading this email and agreeing to take in Renn, we decided to google this “business”.
Have you googled Saint George’s Dragon Orphanage? Hundreds of bad reviews spanning the last 10+ years. All of these reviews talk about getting scammed, animal neglect, upset kids, being lied to, and taken advantage of. Yelp, Reddit, MapQuest, Yahoo, iPetitions - all have public reviews and welfare concerns, spanning for years. We couldn’t find much out about this “business”, so we took to TikTok. Immediately, we were slammed with comments and DMs from past volunteers of his, customers, concerned passerby’s, and ren faire volunteers, all with horror stories and concerns - about St George’s Dragon Orphanage. They travel all around to pull this harmful scam.
This would be hundreds, if not thousands, of lizards. Renn was lucky to make it to us. Fortunately, the wrong rescue found out about this, and we are not letting it go.