Tortoise Hit with Hammer Gets Forever Home!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2024
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Garden State Tortoise is loaded with animals that have amazing stories to tell. This time around we’re talking about Iris, the texas tortoise! Iris was found many states away from her native home and it’s beleived she was hit with a hammer! An area on her shell where the bone has collapsed bears a very familair and suspicious shape of the head of a hammer leading us all to think that this sweet little tortoise was once brutally attacked. Her story has a very happy ending though and after being turned over to GST by an animal rescue, Iris is getting an epic, forever, custom built home by the one and only TOAD RANCH CAGES!
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Who is Garden State Tortoise?
However you made it here, thank you and welcome to Garden State Tortoise. Garden State Tortoise is home to hundreds of animals from all around the world. We are a family dedicated to adventure, conservation of wildlife, and all things nature. We are a reptile rescue and breeding facility for more than ten years, offering refuge to those who need it, and working everyday to protect the beautiful world of reptiles in any way we can. Here on our TH-cam channel you will be able to join us on our animal adventures while learning how to care for, protect, properly identify, feed and even breed many species of turtle, tortoise, snake and lizard. We even work with frogs and salamanders! We hope you enjoy our videos and help us share them with the world so we can continue to educate people of all ages about herpetology.
Chris and Casey Leones
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Hi! Could do a video or direct me to a video on how to set up my russian tort who likes to eat everything? I currently have her on cypress mulch temporarily but she is even trying to eat that. I have heard mixed things about timothy hay and wanted your input. Thank you!
Chaotic intro lol
Which was a perfect representation of our lives here 🤣
Me and my husband anytime we do a project together lol
@@kcojcous too!!😂
@@kcojcosameeeee!!!
Wouldn’t transporting gigantic turtles across the lawn be easier in a wheelbarrow, on a dolly... or something with wheels? 🤔
Aaaaw, Iris is so lovely and the enclosure is amazing!!! I was so happy to see that Janet's actually well enough to move to the pond!! Have a lovely Sunday everyone. x
Same to you!
Lol, without context, your comment sounds like you're commenting on a retirement home 😂
🤭Oh, that cracked me up lol. So true 😂@@atomdecay
Iris somehow reminds me of Enkesha, an elephant at Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, whose trunk was severed due to an encounter with a snare. Enkesha was forced away from her family and suffered great human-caused harm, just as Iris has. And yet they have both survived long enough to find compassionate humans and are now living out the best lives they can have in peace.
I just don't get it why you aren't one of the big channels yet. Quality content, funny, well produced, interesting. I really enjoy your weekly shows and I don't even know a single person who owns a tortoise or a turtle.
Greetings from Finland btw.
Thank you! We’re growing that’s for sure. We jumped over 200,000 subs this past year so hopefully it keeps going.
Wickens Wicked Reptiles had you on their top 5 list so hopefully that helps too!
Almost 500 subs, they’re pretty big
Give it time, they’ll be at 1M
@@danielbrown1724I agree! They will be at a million subs in no time at all.
@GardenStateTortoise you will keep growing! GST is one of the BEST channels on youtube! I am a total tortoise nut so maybe that's part of it? I love your content, regardless of species featured though.
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People who save 🐢 are the best.
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If I had the space, I'd have my own tortoise. Since I can't I'll happily live vicariously through you guys! Great video as always. :)
Thank you for everything you guys do to help these animals. 😎🐢
Thank you for watching!
@@GardenStateTortoise if I were in my classroom, I would consider it as part of my curriculum!
Iris ❤ so happy you’re safe & sound 😇
I LOVE how much you care for each tortoise/turtle/snake/bearded dragon etc. your channel is what gave me all the knowledge I needed for when I got my tortoise to give him the BEST life. Your also the first person I’d contact for any health issue with my tortoise. You guys are living my dream. I’d love to own a big plot of land and have an exotic reptile sanctuary for reptiles 🥺🥺🥺 your both amazing you deserve so much for what you do to these animals
Thank you Chris & Casey for all you do for your animals 💚🐢🦎🐍 and for the reptile community ❤️🤗 AMAZING job as usual!! 🙌🙌
Our pleasure! Thank you 🙏🏻
LOL Glad to see y'all are a regular couple. Thanks for great videos guys!
If I could have reptiles, I’d definitely get Toad Ranch!
Chris, thank you for helping out at the Reptarium! I wish they would have shown you more while you were there.
Thank you. Those guys are like family to me and so is brian. Always happy to be there with them. ❤️
Oh, la la, vos scènes de ménage! 🤣 It's heartwarming to see little Iris exploring her beautiful new winter home. You always find such a thoughtful and esthetic ways of furnishing the TR habitats to fit the needs of their residents.🧡
😊 thank you 🙏🏻
Toad Ranch is amazing! I absolutely love how far you go to give your animals the most excellent environment possible. 🐢❤️🐢
Thanks Lori!
Aww, Iris has such a sweet face. What a beautiful enclosure for her. And Chris, the answer is always, Yes dear. LOL
Yes indeed!
Yay for Janet and Iris! ❤❤
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You guys have become a routine viewing for me & my 5 year old son 😊 He is in love with Otis of course, but he is GLUED to the screen for every second of every video! He can't get enough of what you guys do! & because of how informative you guys are, I can properly explain what happening to him, & also become a better Turtle owner in the process. It's literally a win-win-win! 🤘🐢❤️
This comment just made our week! Thank you and please tell your son we said hello!!
The intro! I LOVE it so much! Exactly why hubby and I could never work together.
Hahahaha thank you!
Nothing like my Sunday cup of coffee and a new episode of GST. Great intro too 🌞🌞🌞
Side note, you named a turtle Janice? lol……love it
Awesome! ☕️
Yep we sure did, we did a whole video about her not too far back. 🤣
@@GardenStateTortoise I remember, it just dawned on me now though 🤣
Really great episode guys, love watching you build up an enclosure from the ground up. So much goes into it 🐍🦎🐢💜💜💜
Excellent video and it’s awesome seeing you help out Brian’s crew for the aquarium. Keep up the great work.
Thank you. Those guys are family to us. ❤️
I felt that "youre makin me feel weird!" In my SOUL 😂 great intro haha
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Thank you for all you do for these animals! I absolutely love your videos and would love to be able to visit them all someday ❤
You are so kind, thank you!
She looks beautiful in her awesome new forever home. I can tell she loves it. Awesome job and thank you for your love for her. She's so sweet.
Love the Different Take on the Intro🤣😂👍👍👍
Glad to hear that!!!
Iris looks so happy in her new home!!!
Thanks for being there for the Barczyk family, and Crew. Hopefully you got to say goodbye to Brian!
You guys are amazing, and an inspiration. I have done a very minimal 'rescue' of western box turtles in our area. I have my max of 5 that I couldn't release for various reasons, and you guys are a great resource!
You guys are so silly! Iris is so adorable. ❤ Her new home is amazing. Hey Chris, thank you so much for helping at the LegaSea.❤❤
What a beautiful enclosure, Iris is so lucky and I hope she loves it!
OMG Janet!
Janet turns round offended 😂
She does have some hefty rolls though 😂
🤣🤣🤣 she’s sooo strong!
@@GardenStateTortoise strong independent chönk that don't need no diet is how she sees it I suspect. So glad you guys have her, she will live her best life there
"Shes not 80 pounds, shes 72." 😂
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I love the way you film the two of you working together. You really could start a reality show. Thank you for everything you do!
I love how Janet has a mini roar, like a pint sized Godzilla!
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Hi Chris How could some one do that to a beautiful tortoise. I am so glad that you have it now, and it is safe. Can you repair the damage? That tortouse will have the best life now.❤🐢Cindy
I honestly don’t know why or how someone could hurt these animals. Luckily for her it’s just cosmetic so no further actuation is needed. ❤️
It’s no excuse but a lot of people think oh the shell will never break and then they TRY hitting it to see how much it can withstand 😡😡 also accidents I heard so many stories where a tortoise has been roaming it’s garden and the owner will be doing diy involving a hammer and it gets dropped on tortoise and cracks shells. People have no respect for animals sadly
It’s no excuse but a lot of people think oh the shell will never break and then they TRY hitting it to see how much it can withstand 😡😡 also accidents I heard so many stories where a tortoise has been roaming it’s garden and the owner will be doing diy involving a hammer and it gets dropped on tortoise and cracks shells. People have no respect for animals sadly
You have beautiful tortoises
Thank you!
Love your channel. Thank you for all you do for our wild things.
Thank you and Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
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Thank you for showing me that my relationship is not the only one.
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Life with a cute, smart, strong-willed woman. I can relate, bro!
Another beautiful enclosure! You guys are the best at that!!!!!!
Wow, thank you!
You truly make the best enclosures I’ve ever seen! Toad ranch makes pretty outsides but the way you set them up is amazing!!
My Donatello loves his enclosure I feel like real plants are a must may take time to take care of but adds so much
Does anyone else get the feeling she’s thinking, “Am I back home?!”, as she looks around in those first few seconds?
👋from Delaware, your neighbor. I have a box turtle I used to see going through my yard every few years. Hoping to see it this year now that I know more 🙂
Awesome!!
I love that we get to see some of the behind the scenes 😂 thanks for keeping the real life in it!
Blessings on you all for taking care of the most vulnerable! Speaks a lot of your character ❤️
Thank you so much!
Love Texas tortoises, been lucky enough to have encountered a handful in the wild
I wonder how she found her way to Colorado. I'm glad she's found a safe forever home!
Me, too,
I teared up seeing her released into her beautiful new habitat❣️🥹
No one will ever know but my guess is someone poached her.
And always remember your amazing wife who does so much in front of and behind the camera! She does such an amazing job with everything! You have a lot to be thankful for!
I'm a minute in and can't stop laughing at you two 😂 x
🤣🤣🤣 we like to be real with you guys
@@GardenStateTortoise it's brilliant 😂 you guys have the greatest relationship for the work you do
You two are great. I love the videos and I love what you do. Thanks. 💖
Thank you so much!
“She’s not 80lbs, she’s 72” 😂😂😂
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I just love what you do for these fantastic turtles and tortoises. You do so much and it is incredible and so inspiring. I haven’t got any turtles or tortoises as I don’t have any to take care of them when I’m not here anymore. So I just watch a lot of videos of them instead.
Wow, thank you!
Iris couldn't have found a better forever home! That enclosure looks amazing, nice job!!!
Why would anyone do that 😢
We’ll never know. 😞
That hole hurts my heart. Its why i like animals more than people, as a rule (with exceptions of course.) So glad Iris is with y'all. The Toad Ranch enclosures are just gorgeous.
Thank you and totally get it!
I admire the two of you. You do all the work with all your amazing tortoises , turtles, farm animals, and you raise your children!1Bless you both for doing all this!! The new enclosure for Iris is gorgeous. I enjoyed watching her explore her new home.
Love love love these videos!!!!
Well done!!! Hard work but BEAUTIFUL results! Thank you SO much for caring for these beautiful creatures !🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I just love those enclosures from Toad Ranch. When you have them all finished they remind me of trips to the Museum of Natural History in NYC when I was a child. No live animals in them though. Iris is such a lucky tortoise, gets such a wonderful environment. Now if only she could talk wonder what she would say.
Oh wow that is amazing! Thank you 🙏🏻
showing you two play arguing with each other is so cute. me and my hunny often swipe at each other during projects in fun. Those turtles are so adorable. thank you for all you do for them. Wish we could see more of your mini farm animals also. blessings@
I felt physically ill when you said the thing about the hammer and the kids 😢
I'm glad you got her set up in a nice enclosure
It’s an awful reality, I know. She’s in a great place now, though.
Loved the intro🤣 You guys are something else. Beautiful job on the enclosure. Iris is already loving it. Enjoy your winter in the pond Janet.
Thanks so much!
I love Arcadia Deep Heat Projectors! They are aweome. My redfoots have several options but they often choose to hang out under the DHPs, despite not really being known as a basking species.
You guys do such amazing habitats for your beautiful critters!
You guys are hilarious😂 remind me so much of me and my husband. So much chaos but we are obsessed with each other. Just two knuckleheads
I love Texas tortoises! Iris is so adorable. I’m glad you got such a great enclosure for her.
I live in Dallas, TX and was looking into adopting a tortoise from a nearby rescue, with an eye toward a species that would do well here.
Since Texas tortoises are protected and not allowed to be sold, is it a species I could take in from a rescue, or do they require special handling licenses like a rescue would have?
What a beautiful result! Knowledge of her home range and a capable partner created an enclosure that looks like you lifted it out of the Texas desert. And after just a few minutes, Iris looks like she feels right at home. Great job!
Wow, thank you!
Stop the bickering. Glad there are people like you who help animals
So chaotic at the beginning 🤣🤣🤣 question. Turtles and tortoises I know are mainly solitary species, so will Janet and unit not get territorial and fight or try to breed? I’m just curious as I’m always advices not to house together 😊
Wheels, guys!! Wheels!! Get dollies, carts…wheels!
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Thank you!
Iris will love her beautiful new enclosure!❤
that enclosure is incredible. you care about the way it looks (and it is amazing) but the environment is 100% perfect and #1 for the animal. you need to like win some art award or something for the beauty.
Wow, thank you!
I've plenty of experience keeping and breeding the Texas tortoise in Mexico for conservation pirposes. They fully hibernate in some parts of the range. I think in NJ they might be able to hibernate inside a container (with substrate) inside a car garage. Here the winter temps oscillate between in the 40s at night, and warmer in the afternoon. On the hot winter day they come out of hibernation looking for food. I think hibernation helps with fertility (at least our fertile females lay mostly fertile eggs).
🥰❤️ AWESOME video, as always!!👏👏🐢 Luv you guys!!
Thank you!!! 🙏🏻 ❤️
❤❤❤❤❤❤ I'm sad that she got hit and I'm grateful you have saved her❤❤❤❤❤❤
Can you please do a 2024 tour please I would love to see everything you have
We did an outdoor door a few months back but yes we will do another
The intro is hilarious. 😂
She is so cute! 🥰
The tuff stuff tubs coming in handy
Oh yeah 💪🏻
Phenomenal set up, Toad Ranch are brilliant.
They really are.
Ahaha love the intro!! 😂 reminds me of working along aside of my husband here on the farm😅
I hope Janet is OK with the rapid temperature drops over the last 3 days. It supposed to get warmer next week. NJ weather has been getting so weird over the years.
I remember seeing these as a kid in the 60s south Texas. Very sad they are threatened. Such wonderful creatures.. they like prickly pear fruit.
Loved the intro. 😂. Fantastic vid.
Janet needs to try Pilates. 🐢 Us girls gotta watch our figures!😏
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Someone buy these guys some Gorilla Carts!!!
Damnit Janet you big!
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Sound like typical married people! Love what you two do!
🤣🤣🤣 thank you 🙏🏻
Always love your videos!
Poor Iris. "Hammer" and "reptile" should never be in the same sentence! Budding psychopaths, where are their parents? Thank goodness there are people like you who can give these sweet creatures a safe and happy home.
Awesome job as usual , the enclosure looks great :)
Thank you 🙏🏻
I love her! ❤️
I never really considered that tortoises/turtles could get obese. Janet is so cute and silly looking. Glad she is getting nice care from you guys :)
Thanks!
😂😂😂 you guys are so cute together
New fan. Great visit to reptarium.... l really enjoyed your content.
Happy to have ya!
I read somewhere that alligators' muscles do not atrophy, even if they are sedentary for years. Are turtles like this as well?
-Beautiful Setup 🐢🪨😍 & Awesome Wife 💕 Quite The Team 👍🏾👍🏾
every sunday 3pm here lol
Nice!!
I use toad ranch enclosures as well and I love them. I will only use their enclosures for my reptiles from here on out. And I’ll def use that code!
Thanks sooo much!!
I love you guys!
I knew you guys secretly didn't like each other 😂😂