Another tip for pet turtle care is to consider how long reptiles live. A turtle in captivity is likely to live 20-30 years, ...

Pet turtles have diverse dietary needs depending on their species and age. Understanding these requirements is the first step ...

Having a pet turtle can be great! While they may not be as cuddly as a dog, cat, or guinea pig, in return, they don’t bark ...

Long regarded as one of the longest-living pets you could ever own, turtles surprise many pet owners with how long they can ...

Turtles have become an incredibly popular choice for pets in the last several years for many reasons. One of the biggest is how easy it is to care for them and how well-invested new reptile owners do ...

Bringing home the wrong kind of pet, especially ‘exotic’, imported species that are difficult to care for, can add to stress ...

I straddled the sedentary reptile as I made my way through the countryside on the way home from the delta the other day. No, it wasn’t a cottonmouth or a timber rattler, for had it been, the outcome ...

Turtles are often seen as affordable and low-maintenance pets, but some owners release them into the wild when they become too much to handle. While this might seem like the easiest way to get rid ...