Posts in Current Patients Blog

Last Wednesday was an extremely busy day here at the hospital.  In the morning, as we had three turtles undergoing surgery for FP tumor removal,[…]

Sunday, February 24th was a beautiful day to be out on the water in the Florida Keys, and for The Turtle Hospital that means there are[…]

Javier, Jasmin, Jenny, and Olvidio regularly fish in the Florida Keys, but they’ve never had a day quite like yesterday! At around 5 p.m. Turtle Hospital[…]

Rescuers, Jack and Kellie, spotted a sea turtle in the early afternoon of January 13th in the neighborhood canal and thought nothing of it, turtles[…]

On Sunday, January 6, 2013, Elisabeth Miska of The Turtle Hospital received a call about a floating and lethargic turtle. Key West natives, Josh and[…]

Stella, an adult female Green, came to The Turtle Hospital back in August, and until recently had been stuck floating at the surface of her[…]

2013 is upon us, and with its arrival come our final counts over the past year.  Tallying up the numbers, we had a total of[…]

Weighing in at 133 pounds, subadult Loggerhead “Rudy” brings our turtle total to 28!  Rescued by the Collopy family of Chicago, Matt and Aileen were[…]

If sea turtles had vocal chords, they would be singing you Christmas carols today!  But, thankfully, they are excellent writers. (It’s amazing to watch those flippers[…]

This holiday season has involved a lot of turtle procedures at The Turtle Hospital: Seven days before Christmas, Burt and Kaleb brought to us… a turtle with fibropapillomas![…]

The newest patients to The Turtle Hospital both came in on December 10th. The day started with a call in from Captain Hooks Marina, where[…]

A steady flow of juvenile green turtle patients have been admitted to The Turtle Hospital of late.  Five newbies are currently undergoing care by the[…]