Sea Turtle Patients: Sick and Injured Turtles at the Hospital

Our Turtle Patients at the Hospital

In China, a vast amount of illegal harvesting of sea turtles occurs, Sea Turtles 911 rescues these turtles directly from poachers, markets and restaurants. The rescued turtles are generally malnourished, dehydrated, suffering from sever viral and fungal infections, trauma from rough handling, and a host of other ailments. The sick and injured sea turtles are admitted to the floating sea turtle hospital for emergency medical care. Rehabilitation for release back into the wild requires fluids, antibiotics, antifungal medications, vitamins, topical ointments, and of course lots of food. You can help provide medical and nutritional care for a rescued sea turtle by adopting your own sea turtle from China!!

To show our gratitude to our sponsor, Yeh! for Games, Inc., and the gaming community for their support, some of our patients are named after World or Warcraft® characters!

	Elune Rescued from a restaurant, cold stunned from being held in a bucket of ice water, but "warming up" to life again after the trauma. Click here for more pictures.
	Shandris Feathermoon Rescued from poachers, internal and external bacterial infection resulting in sloughing of the skin on flippers and neck caused by being held in poor quality water. Skin infection is healing well, Shandris can be seen constantly gliding through the water. Click here for more pictures.
	Lord Illidan Stormrage Rescued from poachers, has a condition called lordosis similar to scoliosis in humans. Lordosis is an extremely rare condition and is thought to be brought on by certain environmental conditions at a young age such as malnutrition. Active and also mischievous, often swims in circles to build up speed and then with a quick flip of his flipper splashes water onto unsuspecting volunteers. Click here for more pictures.
	Sylvanas Windrunner Rescued from poachers, heavily encrusted with barnacles, dehydrated, underweight, internal infection, and a large portion of both front flippers cut off by poachers. Sylvanas is truly a tenacious turtle, she was everything but lethargic when she first arrived, and has remained active. Her flippers are healing well and she has adapted to the loss, for she darts around the tank with surprising speed. Click here for more pictures.
	Birdie Rescued from poachers, severely debilitated, lethargic, anorexic, internal infection and a floater. After a month of fluids, tube feeding, force feeding, and antibiotics he is finally eating on his own. As he gains strength back, his true personality is starting to show. Click here for more pictures.
	Sadie Hawkins Rescued from poachers, severely debilitated, lethargic, anorexic, internal infection and a floater After a month of fluids, tube feeding, force feeding, and antibiotics he is finally eating on this own. Sadie is more stubborn than Birdie, which made him a difficult patient, but his stubborn determination to survive will help with his recovery. Click here for more pictures.
	Quasimodo Named after the hunched back protagonist in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo has a condition called Kyphosis, which is a hump in the spine; it is thought to be caused by poor environmental conditions at a young age and malnutrition. Additionally, he is underweight, a floater, has an internal and external infection, an injury to his right front flipper, and a pea sized hole in his plastron. In spite of it all he has the spunky attitude of the runt of the group. Click here for more pictures.
	Cinnamon Rescued from poachers, internal infection, and damaged beak. His damaged beak gives him a winsome expression. Despite being the runt of the bunch, he is always the first to the food. Click here for more pictures.
	Neptulon Rescued from a restaurant, cold stunned. Neptulon is thankful to be back in his element after his near death experience. Click here for more pictures.
	Ossirian the Unscarred Condition at admittance: Lethargic, barnacle build, internal infection. Ossirian is a picky eater who prefers long fish, squid and one specific species of crabs. He had remained on bottom of enclosure until we got a guard dog for the hospital. He now frequents the surface to investigate the dog. At one point, the dog got startled and fell into Ossiran's tank, directly on top of his carapace while the turtle remained at the surface with the dog standing on his back. Click here for more pictures.
	Arygos Rescued from poachers, internal infection, lethargic, and underweight. Currently fat and happy and a tad bit lazy, usually found on the bottom of the tank napping, enjoys frequent back scratches to remove algae buildup. Click here for more pictures.


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