Mitcham Reptile Rescue.

A central UK data base of unwanted reptiles & homes waiting.

Mitcham Reptile Rescue was set up because there were too many people who thought it would be nice to have their own reptile after seeing such films as Teenage mutant ninja turtles, Jurassic park, Anaconda ect... without looking deep enough within themselves to do enough research like buying a book for a fiver before purchasing such an animal. Then there is the flip side of the coin, I'm talking about the retailers, there are so many people trying to make a quick buck selling cute little animals like little cuddly Iguanas which they fail to inform you will grow to six foot and beautiful Burmese pythons which I have personally seen on sale in a shop with a card underneath saying "Maximum size 15 feet long". This is rubbish, females can grow up to THIRTY feet long. I bet most retailers don't tell you that! There are a few retailers however (too few to my mind) who tell it how it is.

If you are reading this before purchasing a reptile do yourself a favour, spend £5 - £10 on a book about the prospective animal you are thinking of buying, after all you are going to spend between £80 - £200 if not more on the vivarium and setting it up properly. Please don't go and buy an animal then start asking (on forums and such like) how to look after it. This is another thing that makes my blood boil and this is an example of a message I saw on a forum on the Internet. " I've bought this snake. What does it eat and how often." This and other basic information can all be found in books, I personally recommend the books that are published by TFH. All of these books have everything you need to know about basic husbandry of the animal you are thinking of keeping.

Rescue. We started rescuing reptiles in 1995 & have rehomed many animals over the years but unfortunately due to the heavy financial burden of keeping & maintaining a decent level of care for all the animals we already have in our care, we decided that were not able to take in anymore unwanted reptiles, If however circumstances change in the future then hopefully one day we may be able to reverse this decision.

However because the level of unwanted reptiles continues to rise in the UK, we started the UK's first national reptile rehoming data base on this website, of all reptiles that need new homes & new homes that are waiting for unwanted reptiles.

Mitcham Reptile Rescue
receives no outside funding.
The food, housing & veterinary care is funded totally by myself. Please bear this in mind when adopting an animal from or through us.
Donations are always welcome no matter how small.

Me with Bobby The Bosc monitor.

Find Ziggy a girlfriend
I am Ziggy, a 4yr old male iguana who is looking for some female company. I live in a big 10ft x 6ft x 4ft house with wonderful, views into my pet humans living rooms. I have 2 pet humans who are very kind to me, feed me and spray me and let me run around the living rooms... I like to wind them up by climbing things and hiding... Its fun to see the exasperated looks when they suddenly realise they don't know where I am!!! You can find all of my details in the home waiting section.

Crocodile bank bursting at the seams
India is sending 40 marsh crocodiles to Bangladesh where rampant poaching of the reptiles has threatened the species with extinction. A large number of marsh crocodiles used to be found in lakes, marshes and rivers in Bangladesh. But most of them have been hunted by poachers who sell their skin to make handbags and shoes. India itself had a huge shortage of crocodiles in the 1970s and it was feared that the reptiles would soon become extinct.