Turtle Rescue Team

📢 Happy NC State Day of Giving!!!

We wanted to take a moment to highlight the wonderful faculty and alumni who have helped make Turtle Rescue Team a success over the past 30 years 🥳

Turtle Rescue Team has helped so many reach their professional goals while unlocking the passion to treat all creatures, great or small 🐢

This Day of Giving, we hope to raise $5,000 to support the next generation of TRT doctors and help all the animals who have yet to come through our doors

If you’d like to make a donation, use the link below - we couldn’t do what we do without your support 🫶🏼

https://go.ncsu.edu/trtdog26



Photo credits: NC State CVM, Iowa State University CVM, SC Aquarium, Turtle Survival Alliance, The Georgia Aquarium, Greensboro Science Center, Fort Worth Zoo, North Paw Animal Hospital, Illinois CVM, Binder Park Zoo

Happy Holidays from all of us at the Turtle Rescue Team!!! ❤️🐢

Our turtle patients have been very good all year and it is their Christmas wish to have a fridge stocked with fruits and veggies for their salad plates, so if you have any leftover after the holidays or want to grab some from the store, we are accepting these items in our donation bin! It is past this wooden turtle, through the black gate fence, and beside the second door on the left (it’s a black bin with red lid). Thank you! 😊

The 2025 Turtle Ally Program was a massive hit! We ended up hosting 90 attendees for a full day of turtle educational programming!!! 🤩

Attendees received a lecture about general turtle knowledge and common procedures done in the Turtle Rescue Team lab, listened to some students present recent cases, and then got hands on with both live and cadaver turtles to get a crash course in handling, physical exams, blood draws, shell repairs, feeding tube placement, and aural abscess procedures!

This incredible day was designed and ran by our Turtle Rescue Team student program coordinators Katerina and Trina, supported by other student volunteers, and overseen by the one and only Dr. Lewbart. We LOVE turtles and were all thrilled to get to share that with so many folks. We hope all attendees walked away with more confidence in turtle care and lots of enthusiasm to make them apart of current or future careers! 🐢🎉