Vintage Tortoise Rescue & Boutique

09/27/2024

Sunny days are the best days. Some fun in the sun is always much needed. ☀️Thank you for the fun rescue pictures. 💚🐢

09/20/2024

A Friendly Reminder 🐢

A 100+ pound Male Sulcata is monumentally different to house than a hatchling, yearling or juvenile.

They require a large, fully secured enclosure with a sizable heated shed/barn/house for the winter.

They p**p like a cow, they rearrange furniture, they dig, they eat a lot (A LOT), they will try to mate with inanimate objects, they can be destructive.

You HAVE TO spend the time and resources to set them up properly or it’s a recipe for disaster and you will end up rehoming him.

With the right setup they are amazing and very rewarding pets. Please do not listen to anyone selling them as an “easy” or “starter” pet.

You wouldn’t put a cow in your living room, or a horse in your laundry room, just like livestock they need to be outdoors.

Sulcata’s are grazers, they want to eat grass, lots of grass, they want to explore and roam a large enclosure, they need shade to escape the searing sun, they want to play in the mud and soak on hot days, they will plow through inadequate fencing and escape.

When you hear people in FB groups say “Do your Research”, this is what they mean. Is it cool to have a giant tortoise roaming your backyard? ABSOLUTELY!, but you owe it to him and yourselves to set him up for success.

09/01/2024

Adopters Needed!! Please consider giving an amazing home to a reptile 🦎 from our rescue. PM me for more information. Located in Paso Robles CA

We have bearded dragons, geckos, crested geckos, tortoises many different species, frogs, iguanas & more. All we rescues this is not a pet store.

08/19/2024

Update : 🏠🐖ADOPTION TIME 🐖 🏠
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🐢🦎🐢. Reptile adoptions welcome. 🐢🦎🐢

little Miss Pig Pig is off the bottle and ready for a forever home!! Pig Pig is a KuneKune pig, she was the runt & rejected by her mother. She was bottle fed from birth and is smaller then her siblings but not by much. Pig Pig is like a puppy, she comes to her name, doesn’t run off, follows me everywhere, loves to snuggle, loves swimming or her baby pool, LOVES to play with dogs, great with small children, knows the word no very well lol and will sit at my glass back door with my dogs begging to come in! If you would like more information on adoption please reach out to me at 805-423-6546 FYI: Pig Pig at this point is a pet not a protein. 🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷

Updated pictures of her, her siblings & mother in comments below 👇. For more information go to my original post on my page Vintage Tortoise Rescue & Boutique

The owner of her siblings has 3 males 2 females They are sweet but have not been hand raised like Little Miss Pig . If you’re interested I will send you her #. 🐖 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖

07/23/2024

Definitely not a reptile 🐢 but this piglet 🐽🐖 was rejected by her mother. She came to the rescue only 4 hours after she was born with her belly cord still attached. Her name is Spot, she has been such a blast for us all to rehabilitate 💗! Spot will be missed. Spot is a Kune Kune pig & will be up for adoption Early August.

05/27/2024

Herman waiting his turn to slip & slide 🛝🐢.
You guessed it his turn was the last of the slip & slide R.I.P lol

04/11/2024

If you have adopted from V.T.R & did not personally receive this please schedule your spring health check. 🐢💚🐢💚🐢💚

10/27/2023

Vintagetortoise.com

Custom made reptile 🦎 hides.
Click link above to the website, under the menu tab 👆🏼click “ enclosure supplies”

10/24/2023

Winter Enclosure DIY

05/20/2023

Thank you Vintage Tortoise Rescue & Boutique for the animal experience!

04/09/2023

Sleeping iguana 🦎 is such a cuddle bug

03/25/2023

Control issues much lol this is what a weekend away looks like for me. I’m the queen of sticky notes 📝

03/17/2023

Welcome to the rescue Linda & George. 2 / 9 year old female Sulcata’s from Lemoore California

03/17/2023

Update on tortoise that came in with an extreme case of shell rot. The bottom of her rotting shell is slowly falling off which is great news it’s providing a new clean surface to eventually epoxy as a complete synthetic shell. All signs of Infection are gone after 4 months of daily antibiotics injection & daily scrubbing and wrapping! her complete journey will take years but with the right exotic vet, medication and extreme TLC she is thriving. All medications used must be prescribed by a veterinary. I’m posting the meds that saved her life because it was trial and error so now we know these work for she’ll rot. Medication used in comments below.

02/19/2023

My happy place. Brycen fell asleep with the bunnies lol🦎 🐢 🐇 🧍🏼Happy Sunday

02/18/2023

02/18/2023