Slithers and Crawls

Slithers and Crawls 🏠 Reptile adoptions
🐍 Animal activism
💀 Cruelty free skulls & specimens
🌱 Conservation
🐢 Education & private events

It’s National Museum Month and we are bringing a collection of fossils to Come experience our collection of fossils and...
05/13/2025

It’s National Museum Month and we are bringing a collection of fossils to

Come experience our collection of fossils and other prehistoric specimens on display. There will be fun activities and Dino face painting with

🦕 Friday 5-16-25
🦖 1275 Hwy 2
🦣 4 - 7pm

04/17/2025

We will be back at your local Wrightwood Certified Farmers Market 4/18 3-6pm with lots of fun! Pictures with the Easter Bunny for a suggested $5 donation per family, Face Painting, and Mystery Tie Dyes Easter eggs for sale! Slithers and Crawls will be there with Pictures with animal ambassadors for donations and education, come learn more about your local exotic rescue! Sam's Photography will be available offering $5 prints as well. There's lots to see and eat at your local farmers market! See ya there! ☮️❤️🐰

04/17/2025

Mama 🥰
Life is a dream just watching her cruising in the clover. Shes particularly fond of the tulips in her fosters dads garden 😝

It’s amazing what a year’s difference can make, Mama is a totally different turtle than when she first arrived. You can tell she is feeling her best and such a happy girl.

Mama is very sociable. She is a doll and just the sweetest best tortoise. She will make a family very lucky one day.

For adoption
Mama T
Female Adult
Mojave desert tortoise

Adopted 🎉Lilly’s new family just grew by scales 🥰 she deserves the best and I’m so happy for her.
04/13/2025

Adopted 🎉

Lilly’s new family just grew by scales 🥰 she deserves the best and I’m so happy for her.

04/13/2025

It’s the way she just pops out of her bedding for me😍

Domino is a lovely blue eyed gal, sassy little thing filled with quirks who will need a special type of home.
Domino doesn’t really care to be held too much, and appreciates her space. But with an enriching enclosure with enough room to stretch and explore, and with caves and logs to sleep in, she will be so happy. She is such a fun and entertaining snake to have around, we just love her. 🥰

Adopted 🎉 Sweet Sonny boy is going home. 🥰 little guy has no idea just how much he has scored with his new family❤️
04/13/2025

Adopted 🎉

Sweet Sonny boy is going home. 🥰 little guy has no idea just how much he has scored with his new family❤️

Come see us at the I DYED 2nd Annual Seed Swap. Everyone is invited to come visit the Wrightwood Certified Farmers Marke...
04/10/2025

Come see us at the I DYED 2nd Annual Seed Swap. Everyone is invited to come visit the Wrightwood Certified Farmers Market this April 11th. FREE Seeds because everyone deserves to garden!

Don’t miss this 2 date event! And don’t forget to like and follow for up to date info!

Double adoption! Sheldon our Texas Tortoise and Shedward are going home 💕 Sheldon would’ve been with us a year this mon...
04/06/2025

Double adoption!

Sheldon our Texas Tortoise and Shedward are going home 💕 Sheldon would’ve been with us a year this month, and he didn’t know it but as soon as he woke up from his winter nap. He was going home 😊 Shedward is the sweetest corn snake you’ve ever had, and was loved by so many I knew it wasn’t gonna be very long for him to find his forever home.

Both animals are complete sweethearts and I’m so happy for both of them 🥰

04/05/2025

Last August, super hot day and there’s this vague post on Facebook in my town of this turtle in a 10 gallon tank for free with maybe an inch of water outside of someone’s house.
It weighed on my heartstrings knowing he was there baking in the sun so I took my drive to the location and ya’ll I was fighting myself because I don’t take in water turtles but I couldn’t just leave him there. As I got closer there’s this saddest tank literally next to the trash can. He was literally just on the curb, next to a literal trash can like he was just garbage. Guy had chunks missing out of his shell and what looked like old puncture wounds probably from a dog.
Our second turtle was found in March in the desert far from a pond she has some slight shell deformity like MBD. We will never know her whole story, except she was far from anywhere she should have been and lucky she was found.

Most Red-eared sliders like these two, aren’t so lucky. They are one of the most surrendered or abandoned pet turtles species, and the most popular. Red-eared sliders can live up to 40 years in captivity and require significant care and resources because they are semi-aquatic, need a large habitat, a balanced diet with vitamin supplements, proper temperature and lighting, and frequent water changes that can make them a high-maintenance pet and leads them to be one of the hardest turtles to rehome, often abandoned, and euthenized.

🛑Our rescue is not taking in further water turtles

See our previous post for more information on these turtles.

🐢 Some behind the scenes of Donnashello and Turtle Combat during their quick photoshoot.

Let’s talk turtles! Specifically, Red-Eared Sliders. Rescues and shelters won’t take them in, now some of our favorite r...
04/02/2025

Let’s talk turtles! Specifically, Red-Eared Sliders.

Rescues and shelters won’t take them in, now some of our favorite recreational lakes and water spots are filled with them, but why?

Red Eared Sliders’ popularity as pets has grown exponentially, however people can’t properly care for them for a multiple set of reasons, introduction and release into the wild in many areas outside their native range, contributing to their invasive species status. They have taken over countless counties in California alone, multiple states, as parts of Canada and other continents. In many places, including California, it’s illegal to release or relocate any aquatic animal into the state’s waters. Red-ears being highly adaptable and can live in a variety of aquatic environments. I often remind people, just because they’re surviving doesn’t mean they’re thriving. They are an adaptable invasive species, many do survive long enough to breed and produce a few more clutches to continue the cycle.

Most released sliders will die in the wild, but the survivors will choke out native turtles and other species for food and habitat further exacerbating their impact on our native species.
Turtles are just one of those animals that can get anywhere once released, and it only takes enough of them to make it somewhere before they populate it and sliders have a high reproductive rate, allowing them to establish large populations quickly.

Not only is it detrimental to the ecosystem as they are invasive, pet turtles can carry bacteria that will devastate wild turtle populations and pass on disease that can wipe out wildlife.

We love our turtles, and have a special space in our heart for them. We hope more people understand released turtles like the Red-Ear, will either die once abandoned in the wild, take away enough resources or spread enough diseases to kill the native and healthy local ecosystem to survive, or the turtle lives long enough to damage the local ecosystem and still die because domesticated pets rarely survive in the wild, especially exotic and nonnative species.

Pictured are our two ambassadors, Donnashello and Turtal Combat.

Normally, when a rescue says they’re at capacity, they mean that they are physically at their limit: no more room, no mo...
04/01/2025

Normally, when a rescue says they’re at capacity, they mean that they are physically at their limit: no more room, no more open enclosures, no more space. Especially for small rescues like this run by just one or two people.

This year has barely started and our resources and space are at the limit, and animals with special needs and surgeries are requiring more of our time which take a lot of our time and mental energy.

We may not seem like that much, especially when comparing to the larger facilities that have whole crews of staff and volunteers, but it is quite a bit since I (Lisa Beth, the owner) am responsible for nearly 100% of their care and we also have our education ambassadors.

Thank you all for your amazing support making all of this possible. It is such an honor to care for these animals and give them their second chances. We want to be sure that they are getting everything they need and deserve.
❤️🐍🐢🦎

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What is Slithers and Crawls.

I do hands on, education and entertainment shows for schools, libraries, school enrichment classes, camps, private parties, community functions, and so much more!

Most of the animals are rescues themselves and help me spread the knowledge that they aren’t monsters, and what you “know” about them is wrong. And YES, reptiles need rescued too! I take in the abused, unwanted, injured and neglected reptile pets. Some stay with me and become apart of Slithers and Crawls, to help spread knowledge and respect to the public, And the rest, when healthy and thriving, are at Wrightwood’d Littlest Pet Shop waiting to be adopted.

Slithers and Crawls does not support breeding of any kind, and I do my best to make sure all my rescues and surrenders get the BEST second chance at life with the best forever family. A lot of people are uneducated, have little to no dedication and have a very Hollywood outlook on animals like snakes and spiders. Over %50 0f captive reptiles die within the first year of being brought home.

I have studied behaviors of our very own most venomous creatures, I have crawled under houses to safely relocate rattlesnakes, I have used my whole body to tackle big escaped lizards and have shed so many tears for who I can’t save. In everything I’ve done, every creature I’ve come across and worked with, they aren’t mean. They are AFRAID. And they have every right to be! They don’t know they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, they are trying to survive. As I told a child who called a gopher snake disgusting and kill it with fire, there are no mean snakes, just mean people.