Imagine spending five decades confined to the same floor of a kitchen, entrusting you to any food could go through the cracks. This was the real horror of the life of Rockalina, a turtle box taken away from New Jersey in 1977.
For half a century, he lived in the house away from his natural habitat, mainly eating canned food for cats, which is not exactly what a turtle box would need to stay healthy.
Although he managed to survive in these conditions, this Certranza certainly had a price: years without adequate care they had a serious impact on his health, leaving it malnutritegrappling with problems of mobility and suffering from necrosis to the left paw.
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His nails had turned upwards and risked curiously in his own skin due to the sliding on the smooth flooring in linoleum.
Fortunately, it was entrusted to the Garden State Tortoise, which, of course, intervened to give Rockalina a new life. Now, in fact, the small turtle receives expert veterinary care, a well -balanced diet and a safe outdoor space where life can finally live as a turtle should do.
The organization, known for his work in rehabilitation and in the search for a new home for turtles and testuggini, shared the journey of rockaline on his YouTube channel to raise awareness of the responsible ownership of the reptiles.
