Kibble & Bones

09/06/2025

Thanks to everyone who came out and shopped with us today. We appreciate you all so very much! ❤️

09/04/2025

Hey Everyone! We are accepting donations NOW through Sept 30th! We will give you 10% off your purchase at our store for your donation. 🐾❤️🐾

08/30/2025

It's football 🏈 Saturday!! So tell us....who are you rooting for?

08/28/2025

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08/15/2025

HELP US help the animals of Colbert County Animal Shelter ! Together we can make a difference! For the month of September you can drop off donations (see wishlist) at our store and receive 10% off of your purchase in store with your donation. 🐾❤️🐾

08/08/2025

Happy Friday everyone 🐸

08/04/2025

Awesome!

08/03/2025

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Simon the eastern box turtle was brought to a pet store almost three months ago by a woman declaring intent to keep him as a pet. The staff at the store convinced her to leave him there, but didn’t know that he wouldn’t be releasable if no one knew where he came from.

We searched far and wide and begged the person who found him to come forward with that information, but she never did. We have accepted that we will never find Simon’s home and he will be non-releasable. 😔

Many people want us to release Simon, but we can’t, legally or ethically. Box turtles have very small home ranges and will try to walk back home— facing traffic, predators, and disrupted reproduction— no matter how far away they’re relocated. Some survive relocation, but most don’t.

Additionally, because box turtles travel such short distances in their lives, every region’s turtles have distinct DNA and carry a distinct profile of natural diseases. When one is moved, it can spread infections that are harmless to their own population but catastrophic to another. This is especially true when a box turtle was found on one side of a natural boundary, like the Tennessee river or the Cumberland Plateau.

These concerns about disease transmission are part of the reason that most states have laws forbidding the unauthorized import or export of native wildlife. The pet store where Simon was brought is just two miles from the Georgia state line, and it’s anyone’s guess whether he came from Tennessee or Georgia or somewhere else entirely. If we were to release turtle of unknown origin into Tennessee state lines, we would be violating the law and risking our license.

We wish Simon could go home, but he will instead become a treasured education animal, and will, hopefully, be able to spread the word about why removing box turtles from the wild is so wrong. 🐢

[Description: an eastern box turtle, dark brown and yellow in color, in dark brown substrate. He has red eyes and is standing next to a partially eaten pear about one-third his size.]

08/02/2025

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