Today we have wonderful news at Clinton Critter Care!   All of us have been sick with the flu so there hasn’t been many updates lately, but we wanted to share the awesome news that Earl the Red Eared Slider finally went to a GREAT new forever home today with Sara Ellis from Overland Park. That’s Earl with Sara in the photo to the left!  We are so happy for Earl as Sara is an experienced and responsible pet owner and she has a brand new 75 gallon tank and stand just for Earl, with all necessary food, repti-safe, basking spot, UVB light and filter!  He is definitely going to the best possible home for a turtle we could have asked for!

Earl came to us a few months ago from a small tank with two other turtles that were in 2-3 inches of water which was unfiltered and unheated and he couldn’t completely dry out, nor completely submerge (a horrible situation for a turtle!) so we rescued the turtles, adopting 2.  Earl was the last to go, but one of the friendliest turtles!  He’s now left our turtle rescue habitat to go live in the lap of luxury in Overland Park.

Sara, we wish to thank you for adopting Earl, and we hope you will keep us updated on how Earl is doing in his new home!  We will miss him around here but couldn’t have hoped for a better home for him!

Artemis requires an adequate enclosure of a 40 gallon breeder tank at LEAST, or ideally an enclosure with 55 gallons or more, with strong UVB lighting (regular light bulbs do not contain UVB light), a basking spot with undertank heater, and a cool side to the enclosure.   She has to have fresh water daily treated with Repti-Safe or equivalent to remove chlorine and other heavy metals from the water, as well as lots of fresh greens and other fruits and veggies that HAVE to be replaced DAILY.  She also has to have a regular weekly source of insects such as dubia cockroaches (preferred) or crickets, dusted with reptile vitamins.  She also enjoys and will eat Fluker’s Bearded Dragon Diet (red pellets).  Also required are climbing limbs in her enclosure.

She also needs regular “out of cage” exercise time, and we highly recommend a good bearded dragon leash for ease of mobility while keeping it safe, and weekly baths in warm repti-safe treated water.

Artie is missing the end of her tail, due to being housed together with a male bearded dragon before coming to us.  We recommend that Bearded Dragons ALWAYS be housed by themselves as they are naturally solitary reptiles.

If you would like to adopt Artemis the bearded dragon, please fill out the adoption application located on our website here:

http://clintoncrittercare.com/?page_id=259

Artemis’ adoption fee is $75 and she is located in Clinton,Missouri.  If you cannot provide a loving forever home for Artemis, please help us to care for her and other bearded dragons we rescue by donating an item to them off of our Amazon.com wishlist for our reptiles, including bearded dragons!  They are in need of heat lamps, bearded dragon food, repti-safe or equivalent for their water, or anything else on our reptile wishlist.  It will be sent directly to us, and will be put directly towards the care of this or other reptiles in the future we may rescue!  Thank you!

We’re about to purchase the following things from Amazon because they are so very desperately needed right now – if you can help with donating any of them off of our wishlist at http://amzn.com/w/1QK1IGLMSJ6PC,  it will help lighten the load. If no one donates any of the items or any gift cards, we will simply purchase the necessary care items for our rescued animals in a day or two, as we just started a new cichlid fish rescue tank to do an emergency rescue of a neglected Jack Dempsey fish from an insanely overcrowded tank and we have no heat and not enough filtration for this tank, so these items are desperately needed so that we can rescue neglected fish!

1. Catalina Titanium Heater 300 Watt ($34.77)
2. Exo Terra Repti-Glo 10.0 Fluorescent Lamp, 15-Watt/18-Inch ($17.93)
3. Exo Terra Forest Plume Moss, 7 Quarts, 2-Pack ($6.79)
4. Marineland Penguin Power Filter, 50 to 70-Gallon, 350 GPH ($28.76)

For a total order with shipping of $93.50.

If there is ANYONE reading this who can please spare a donation, simply purchase one or more of the four items above for us on our wishlist (http://amzn.com/w/1QK1IGLMSJ6PC) and checkout via Amazon and the items will be sent directly to us. We also appreciate Amazon gift cards which we can use towards this order (also available through our wishlist), and you can donate anywhere from $1 to the full $93.50 we are needing to raise for our rescue animals.

If anyone donates any of the above items, we will post an update here publicly as a comment to let everyone know and to thank the kind and generous soul willing to save a small pet and make the most gigantic difference in the lives of the smallest of creatures. Our wishlist and the items listed above on it can be found at http://amzn.com/w/1QK1IGLMSJ6PC

It was due to some very tiny mice over in Great Britain that journalist Serena Cowdy began her quest to help save many more tiny lives across the world.  Her blog, One Small Mouse, features many ways you can make the world a better place by helping animals large and small – in fact it’s absolutely incredible that this huge effort to save small animals by Serena began with the tiniest of lives most people consider a “pest”.

A few days ago, One Small Mouse was kind and caring enough to feature Clinton Critter Care on her blog, and was extremely generous in the things she said.  In her post she says

If it’s not a dog or a cat, virtually no shelter in her area will take an abandoned pet on. And that means small pet owners wanting to get rid of their animals often simply dump them into the wild. Of course, most of these abandoned creatures die. And the ones that don’t have a devastating effect on the local eco-system.

Clinton Critter Care not only rescues and re-homes small animals. It also runs free educational shows at schools, youth groups and other venues to teach kids how to treat animals.

Give something back to your first pet

Many people’s first pets are little animals just like these. Perhaps, like me, you had mice, or a goldfish or a hamster or a tortoise in the garden. All over the world, these little chaps are teaching kids the value of responsibility, and what it means to really care for and love another creature.

I believe that the ways kids treat animals give a fairly good indication of how they are likely to treat other human beings when they grow up. If you do too, you’ll get how important these little creatures can be.

It’s just not right that they’re thrown out like rubbish when their owners – children or adults – get bored of them.

I love how Stephanie has stepped up to the plate, against all the odds and when no one else will give these small creatures a second thought.   >>>READ MORE BY CLICKING HERE

In addition to her extremely helpful post that we are so thankful for, Serena has also made several extremely helpful donations of her own to Clinton Critter Care here in Missouri, including both rabbit food, and a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate to our rescue critters – what an amazing holiday gift for our animals, who are very thankful for the donations, but for our rescue efforts as well!  Thank you Serena, we can’t thank you enough for your HUGE impact on our rescue, and for this great start to 2013 at Clinton Critter Care – may your efforts with your blog continue to help those animals in need across the globe!

Could you help us too?  If you can help Clinton Critter Care, please click here to see the ways you can help us on our website, with links to our Amazon wishlist and other ways to help as well!  Thank you so much for your generosity and helping us get a kick-start on the New Year!

Kristin is an incredibly big-hearted woman who helps to inspire and encourage women all over the world.   From her page about her and her blog, she says:

“By nature I’m a writer, a social creature, and a (sometimes over) sharer. I’m determined to share not only all that I’ve been given, but everything I never was.

As a city girl transplanted to rural America with my husband, my Shih-Tzu, and my mother, I longed to connect with women motivated to follow their dreams, pursue their goals, and live their best life, but that often felt out of sync with those in my new surroundings. This blog became my place to share and inspire, to connect, and to learn from other women following their own paths to bliss.

This is our place to journey together.
Namaste.
I’ve heard this loosely translated as the divine light in me salutes the divine light in you. I can’t think of a more beautiful way to welcome you all then by acknowledging the divine spark in all of us.”

Clinton Critter Care was so inspired by what she has done for so many people, that we contacted her in the hopes of gaining her support for our animal education and rescue goals, and her article which she posted to help us gain awareness was absolutely wonderful.  Here is a small quote from the article:

“Clinton Critter Care takes in and re-home reptiles and other small critters that deserve a voice and an advocate as much as any other animal, yet they rarely get it. This small but critical organization depends on people like you and I to run. They operate with just 12 “regular” volunteers and an Assistant Director to clean cages, care for animals, help at educational and adoption events, and raise much needed funds. In their rural area of Missouri, this is actually good, as even typical shelters have limited resources, and those are all beyond maximum capacity and without the equipment, supplies, appropriate habitats or knowledge to support the animals that Clinton Critter Care can.”  >>>Click to Read Full Article<<<

Thank you SO very much Kristin for the wonderful post on your blog, and for helping to spread the word about Clinton Critter Care!!  Your kind words and deeds are an inspiration to all, and we appreciate your mentioning us on your blog, as it greatly helps the abandoned, neglected and abused animals we rescue as well as our educational programs to prevent future problems by educating today’s youth.  It is SO TRUE that we sincerely need the help of people like you and others to help save the animals we rescue and assist in the state of Missouri.

Have YOU mentioned Clinton Critter Care on your blog or Facebook page?  
Click here to send us an email to let us know and be featured on our website.

We serve the entire state of Missouri, although we are based out of Clinton, MO. However we educate people nation-wide to encourage proper animal care and keeping tips and stressing prevention through education.

With care sheets available publicly through our website online at clintoncrittercare.com, educational shows and presentations in schools and youth groups to provide a hands-on one-of-a-kind learning experience as well as stressing the importance of not releasing a non-indigenous species into the local eco-system, not only because of the harm to the animal, but also because of the devastating impact that can have on the local eco-system.

We also serve the animals in Missouri by rescuing and re-homing animals that city shelters and local rescues don’t help out, such as snakes, lizards and other reptiles, amphibians, fish, guinea pigs, ferrets, rabbits, chinchillas, and many other small caged critters. The animals we rescue are either abandoned, or have come from a neglectful or abusive situation, so these animals need rescuing just as much as dog or cats, which is the purpose of our organization.

Anyway, we have an Amazon.com wishlist that we have had for a while and only two people have purchased anything to help us to rescue more animals since we started our wishlist last May. We’re listed on Petfinder.com and Adopt-A-Pet.com, and we post our wishlist on our adoptable animals lists there, as well as on our website, but we just haven’t gotten but four small items donated from our wishlist since May.

So I’m posting this link with the hopes that the kind members here might share our wishlist on other websites or groups, or even possibly donate an item, which would be wonderful and awesome for the many animals we rescue and re-home. We REALLY truly need the help right now especially with it being around the holidays, and we are in desperate need for a lot of the items on our Amazon.com wishlist. Please take a look at it here, and please feel free to use the buttons at the top of the list to share it with your FB friends, Twitter, etc:

Thank you so very much for taking the time to look at our wish list and sharing it with your friends online…our rescue is extremely grateful for any assistance we receive! Thank you and Happy Holidays!

He is very friendly, and would work well in a community tank, is receptive to being hand-fed, and has a very distinct intelligent and curious personality. This biggest issue with finding Earl a new home is that he needs a very large enclosure with lots of water to swim in (at least 12-14″ deep!) with a nice hot basking spot to come completely out of the water on, with UVA/UVB lighting, and must be fed a variety of foods including greens such as leaf lettuce, kale or cabbage, live foods such as crickets or superworms as a treat, and a staple diet of commercial cricket food. Krill and freeze-dried shrimp or bloodworms are also a favorite treat!

If you are interested in adopting Earl, please fill out our new ONLINE adoption application, or contact us toll free at 1-888-280-0145. We are asking a small re-homing fee of $10 for Earl. Located in Clinton, Missouri.

If you cannot provide a loving forever home for Earl, please help us to care for him by donating an item to them off of our Amazon.com wishlist for our reptiles, including turtles! They are in need of heat lamps, turtle food, repto-min for their water, or anything else on our reptile wishlist. It will be sent directly to us, and will be put directly towards the care of this or other turtles in the future we may rescue! Thank you!

* Rescuing and re-homing abandoned, abused or neglected reptiles, amphibians and small animals from across the state of Missouri

*  Free educational shows and presentations to local schools, church groups, or other youth organizations to not only to educate today’s youth on the proper care and handling of small animals, and the importance of not releasing a non-indigenous species into the Missouri ecosystem and the negative effects that could have not only on the animal but on the environment.  We support and believe in prevention through education!

*  Education and Pet Care-Taking information available to the public through our publicly available small animal caresheets which we are building a small library of, to educate the public on proper care-taking for particular critters, and through our 24 hour toll free rescue hotline.

*  Free wild snake removal and relocation in the local Henry County, Missouri area (call 1-888-280-0145)

We TRULY need YOUR help to continue our efforts and to help all of our educational animals (which were all rescued and now help us educate children) and our rescued currently adoptable animals to have a truly happy holiday season, with the food, treats and supplies they love and need here at Clinton Critter Care.  Please give the gift of caring to a lost animal this holiday season….there are SO MANY WAYS YOU CAN HELP!!!

First, we accept financial donations to help with our urgent veterinarian, transportation and basic husbandry needs for housing and supplies for our rescued critters via paypal.  Please use the form below to make a donation of your choice via paypal (you can use your credit card or debit card via paypal as well!):

If you truly wish to give a real gift to one of our rescue animals a Holiday Gift, you can do so by purchasing a needed care item from our Amazon.com wishlist.  Click the button below to view our Amazon.com wishlist and purchase whatever you would like to purchase for our rescue animals from our list.  Amazon will send the item or items directly to us and they will be given the gifts you purchased directly!

You can also click here to contact us if you would like to drop off donations locally in Clinton, MO and we can arrange for pickup of the items or arrangements for you to drop them off.  We have a list of needed items on our website you can view by clicking here!

Bosco, who used to be named Bella before he was surrendered to us and we found “she” was a “he” and renamed him to Bosco, was adopted by Hanna D & family after being with us for a couple of weeks.  We know that Bosco will be loved and cared for by you and your family, and we appreciate your adoption of Bosco.

Our other bunny Ike who looks similar to Bosco, is Ike the bunny who was transferred from a local shelter was also adopted by Jenni G. and family, who have Ike a BEAUTIFUL new rabbit enclosure that is one of the most stunning handmade enclosures we’ve seen for a rabbit!!

Both bunnies have now finally been adopted out, and we are so thankful to those families mentioned above for choosing adoption!!  It’s a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY for these bunnies!

PLEASE REMEMBER:  Owning ANY animal is a responsibility, and rabbits require as much or possibly more care than most pets, such as cats, dogs or birds.  Do your research and use Google to find the answers you need to find out if owning a rabbit is right for you.  NEVER give pets as holiday gifts, especially rabbits during Easter Time.  Rabbits grow very quickly and have very special, and somewhat expensive needs as well as regular veterinary care!  Read these pages to learn if owning a rabbit is for you, before you adopt or purchase ANY rabbit:

Is a Rabbit Right For Me?

PetFinder.com Article:  Do Rabbits Make Good Pets?

And finally, a good video to watch on rabbit care in general!

Also, Jynx the Ferret was adopted out several weeks ago, but we are now just sharing the news, he was adopted by Clinton Critter Care volunteer, Kassie, and the photo on the right shows Kassie with Jynx, and I have no doubt Jynx will be well taken care of in his new home as well!

So it’s a happy ending day here at Clinton Critter Care, as we were able to re-home these adorable sweet wuzzles, and it is wonderful knowing these small critters will have loving warm homes for the holidays!  Please help us to help these critters that we rescue and re-home by purchasing a needed item off of our Amazon.com wishlist by clicking here!