king_pappy
New Member
Good morning everyone,
For the past 6 year I've been working at my family's pizza shop. struggling to find my way in this crazy world. I'm 20 now and have 6 beautiful tortoises and decided this is what I wanna do in my lifetime, I reside in Michigan. I eventually am looking to have a large indoor warehouse outfitted for tortoises I have gobs and gobs of drawings and other plans, But have no idea how to execute this. This is where I need your help!
The goal is to be able to accept rescues and surrenders and provide them with care and a safe environment here in Michigan until they are healthy we can find a new loving family. Along with conservation breeding programs.
I see tons of tortoise get surrendered here especially Sulcatas because once they have grown, many owners don't want them in the house in the winter.
We'd also like to offer educational services for free and allow schools to take free field trips ect. And maybe even one day have radiated tortoises here in Michigan!
As you may guess this is quite pricey to get started especially since I'm only 20.
I'm here searching for my next step, if anyone could offer anything on fundraising, raising money, knowledge, ideas.
If you have any questions or would like to talk more about the plans please start a conversation with me I'd love to share my dream with you! if anyone works with tortoises here in Michigan I'd love to get together and learn.
Thank you for time and reading this! It means a lot to me!
For the past 6 year I've been working at my family's pizza shop. struggling to find my way in this crazy world. I'm 20 now and have 6 beautiful tortoises and decided this is what I wanna do in my lifetime, I reside in Michigan. I eventually am looking to have a large indoor warehouse outfitted for tortoises I have gobs and gobs of drawings and other plans, But have no idea how to execute this. This is where I need your help!
The goal is to be able to accept rescues and surrenders and provide them with care and a safe environment here in Michigan until they are healthy we can find a new loving family. Along with conservation breeding programs.
I see tons of tortoise get surrendered here especially Sulcatas because once they have grown, many owners don't want them in the house in the winter.
We'd also like to offer educational services for free and allow schools to take free field trips ect. And maybe even one day have radiated tortoises here in Michigan!
As you may guess this is quite pricey to get started especially since I'm only 20.
I'm here searching for my next step, if anyone could offer anything on fundraising, raising money, knowledge, ideas.
If you have any questions or would like to talk more about the plans please start a conversation with me I'd love to share my dream with you! if anyone works with tortoises here in Michigan I'd love to get together and learn.
Thank you for time and reading this! It means a lot to me!