Can I donate my Water Turtles to Petmart Or Petco.?

Question

Because they r getting way too big plz help!!

Answer 1

This seems to depend on the store. Some do not, some will hold them for others to adopt, some turn them over to a different animal welfare or rehab group, and some apparently (based on anonymous employee comments) seem to have them euthanized.

The trouble is that there really is not much of a market for adult animals. As you found, adult turtles take a lot of room and are not nearly as 'cute' as the babies, and there are a lot of animals that are routinely abandoned as adults- pythons, large lizards, pot belly pigs, etc.

Very few places have the money, space, staff, or resources to care for all of the adult animals that they get dumped on them, and they sometimes have to make some very hard choices.

Answer 2

yes you can donate your turtles to petmart our petco. i know because i use to have a turtle then the tank start to smell really bad i gave the turtle back to petco and they kept the turtle.

Answer 3

You can give them back to either Petco or Petsmart as long as they are healthy. They probably won't give you a refund but they will find your turtles a good home!

Answer 4

You can also put them in the newspaper for sale

OR

Ask on here if anyone would like them

OR

Give them to the nearest animal shelter..But don't let them go in the wild as they will die

Answer 5

Petco probably would. PetSmart definitely no.

Answer 6

yes definitly in fact they said that if you had a turtle cat spider dog snake lizard bird and rodents!!!! so yes

Answer 7

Well if you got it from there i think you can Return it.