Christina's Reptile & Animal Sanctuary

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Christina's Reptile & Animal Sanctuary

We are a 501c.3 Public charity focused on educating the public and to reptile rescue including providing a home and a good quality of life for the unwanted.

We also adopt out animals into forever, knowledgeable homes.

11/16/2024

Meet Bowser, the one year old map turtle that came in today.

11/16/2024

Meet Torti who came in today. Torti is an unknown age female sulcata tortoise with very severe MBD. She was previously housed in a 20 gallon tank with on a red bulb being fed iceburg lettuce. Thankfully a nice couple quick took her in to try to give her a better life.

11/16/2024

This is Charolette, a 2 year old female red iguana that came in today as well. She has a great home lined up for her.

11/16/2024

This 34 year old reeves turtle went to her forever home today with Dean’s Turtle farm in Maryland. Thanks for giving her a great forever home!!

11/16/2024

This is Zaria; a green iguana who is a little over a year old. She’s had a rough past; but she does have a wonderful home lined up for her.

11/15/2024

Peek a boo.

11/15/2024

Merlot striking a pose.

11/15/2024

38 gallon bow front with glass top, heater, and LED light fixture. Holds water; was previously used for a salt water aquarium. $70 proceeds benefit the animal sanctuary

11/14/2024

Enjoy this one minute video of Sonic eating; he loves his pumpkin.

11/14/2024

Some beef heart today for senior snappy.

11/14/2024

Interesting day at the store today. Haha small cart full of whole fish, beef hearts, chicken feet and a random bag of sweet potato hay; and a girl in front of me in the checkout line was disgusted by the feet; so we got to talking. Ooook. Then as it’s my turn the gentleman bagging the food asked “Are you feeding polar bears with this food?” I couldn’t help but laugh as he was chuckling as well, not intending to hear my response: “no, these are for the gators, crocs, caiman and other lizards.” We all had a good laugh 🤣 first time I was ever asked with my cart items if I am feeding polar bears.

11/14/2024

Ceasar enjoying chicken feet

11/14/2024

Rainbow trout for some of the critters today.

11/14/2024

Remember, the term is defensive; not aggressive. Reptiles are not out to just “get us”, they simply are trying to defend themselves; hence they are defensive. If they are being defensive, there is something they feel threatened about.

11/14/2024

Fun fact:

Iguanas are pleurodonts, meaning their teeth grow attached to the side of the inside of their jawbone (dentary bone). In pleurodonts, the teeth arise from a one-sided groove (as in many reptiles, which include the iguanas. They can have varying size teeth on their pterygoids, which are arranged in one or two rows. Many people do not realize that iguanas have sharp and serrated teeth, which aide in tearing apart vegetation to eat.

Below are pictures I took of one of our rescue iguanas from years ago, that had died from irreversible medical issues from improper care prior. I had articulated the whole skeleton. But here you can see the inside of the dentary bone showing the teeth structure.

11/13/2024

Tilapia, shrimp and quail today.

11/13/2024

Here’s better pictures from the beardie that came in unexpectedly last night. He is a tiger, however we do not know the genetics to prove it. He is a large boy at 544 grams and total length of 18 inches. He had very clogged femoral pores.

11/13/2024

Izzy!

Address

339 Lehigh Avenue (corporate Headquarters)
Palmerton, PA
18071

Telephone

+16103901655

Website

http://www.christinaspets.mysite.com/

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Videos

Sonic

Enjoy this one minute video of Sonic eating; he loves his pumpkin.

Some beef heart today for senior snappy.

Tilapia, shrimp and quail today.

Gubby

Gubby wanting a lot of inferaction today.

Rice.

Rice doing what he does best; digging in the sand.

When they wait so patiently for their food….

Basil.

He’s a savage. lol. Got him off my arm to continue to eat.

Meatball

Meatball walking around as a hotdog.

Another great way to recycle snake shed. The isopods and springtails will eat them for additional nutrition.

Duck

Duck took his food gently today.

Sonic.

One of Sonic’s favorite spots to come down, take a crap, then proceed to smear it all over the door. (Excuse the salt excretions on the door; that’s a daily clean up job with iguanas). I think I persuaded him not to today 🤣