NH Turtle Rescue

Happy Halloweeeeen!! 👻

When Erin carved this amazing Blanding’s turtle-inspired pumpkin, we had to take the opportunity to do a mini photoshoot with some of the ambassadors.

Which one is your favorite? 🎃

Big thanks to Erin, a lead technician in the clinic, for not only carving this pumpkin, but also taking these beautiful photos! Erin interned with us this summer and we are very lucky she has continued to work here, taking great care of the patients - we will be doing a spotlight post on her soon!

For some additional context, we would never take staged photos of patients in the clinic - the ambassador turtles in our care are non-releasable for a variety of reasons, and will be with us long-term, so they are more accustomed to humans. Even so we took great care to minimize handling to not stress them out.

Last week we had the pleasure of visiting the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton to talk turtles with the residents!

Our Eastern Box Turtle ambassador Auggie joined us to give the residents an up-close look at one of our most endangered NH turtle species.

Thank you NHVH for the opportunity to give back to those who have given so much to the rest of us! 💚