Posts in Current Patients Blog

Food is always the great motivating factor but just like humans some turtles can be picky eaters while others will eat anything in front of[…]

The weather outside is chilling, and our ER is a filling…all hands are on deck caring for sea turtle patients at the Turtle Hospital.  Almost[…]

With the new year quickly approaching, some of you might be wondering how our numbers are comparing to previous years.  With two months to go, we[…]

When Patti was rescued she was seen by residents on the ocean side of Card Sound Road, Key Largo. She was floating and the current[…]

After just over two months in rehabilitation, Leanna, an adult Hawksbill was returned to the wild. She was originally found off of Pumpkin Key in[…]

At 90 years old, a woman named Dorothy is one of our most amazing turtle rescuers to date. Dorothy was with friends and family on July[…]

“Dirk” passed her first exam! Today, Dr. Mader of Marathon Veterinary Hospital performed an endoscope on our newest patient “Dirk” who passed with flying colors![…]

On July 7th one of our newest patients became tumor free! On many occasions, a turtle will need to have several surgeries to remove all[…]

This morning we were very happy to see that former Turtle Hospital employee, Donna, was dropping by for a visit. We got even more excited[…]

We’re excited to introduce our newest group of turtle heros! The Neiman family was able to scoop out a 12 lbs Green sea turtle yesterday[…]

The Turtle Hospital responded to two rescue calls in late June and were successfully able to treat two critically endangered sea turtles. The first was[…]

A rare rescue was made on May 15th, when a turtle in trouble was spotted in the marina of The Turtle Hospital! Named ‘Yertle’, this turtle[…]