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The Local Reps team warmly welcomes their newest member: Kim V joins the team from Indiana! Kim says: Hi! I’m Kim so glad to be here as a local rep! I’m from Northwest Indiana (chesterton, IN). I am a stay at home wife due to health issues. Animals have always been in my life from when I was a little girl to when i was a teen and we started rescuing greyhounds. Around then is when I really saw what behind the scene things happen to animals especially  their treatment. So when I got into hermit crabs 2 years ago when my husband and IRead More →

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What else would you call it when  you add FOUR new Local Representatives to the team? Please don’t judge my love for my LRs based on the cleverness of my writing. 😀 Some days I’m less creative and I’ve put this post off too long already. Let’s get to it and welcome four new wonderfully crabby people to our Local Representative team: Anna K – Missouri Ian G – Missouri Ronda L – Utah Yoa J – IndonesiaRead More →

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There are no words to express how THRILLED I am to see that our mission of education is spreading. Sometime last year I was invited to join an Indonesian hermit crab group on Facebook. I selfishly wanted to not only see the photos of the gorgeous hermit crabs that are native but I wanted to see how they are kept as pets. Despite our language barrier our two groups quickly became friendly and intermingled. The members of the Kelomang Lovers Indonesia group were warm and welcoming and most of all quite curious about how we care for hermit crabs in North America.  We happily sharedRead More →

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Watch us grow!! Mike and Melissa are joining us from Florida. They plan business and family trips around hermit crab adoptions they find on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace (among others). Their largest rescue was 33 crabs from Naples who were all in painted shells. Recently the last to change is now in a natural shell! They not only rescue hermit crabs, but also work hands on helping others set up proper crabitats. One was for a Kindergarten class that they set up with the perfect crabitat and some hermit crabs for the children to enjoy. Michael works with the Reddit community to promote proper landRead More →

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The Land Hermit Crab Owners Society is thrilled to announce the addition of FOUR new Local Representatives! Mary is joining us from Tennessee. Her super power is search. If the answer is out there, she will find it. She is a Facebook moderator for our group. Pam is joining us from Pennsylvania. She is part of the Hermit Emergency Response Team and contributes content to CSJ. She moderates our Google+ community Amber is joining us from Western Canada. She is a our food guru and also contributes content to CSJ and the Coenobita Species site. Anne is joining us from North Carolina. She is partRead More →

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The Land Hermit Crab Owners Society is happy to announce our very first Junior Local Representative Max! The Junior Local Rep program is a mentoring program for hermit crab owners between the ages of 13 and 18 who fully understand the importance of proper care and embrace the LHCOS/CSJ mission. We have a very high level of expectation for this program and Max has worked hard to earn his new title. Max is very active on Instagram and Youtube, devoting his time to helping other hermit crab owners provide better care. Max is the king of hermit crab DIY and you can see his work overRead More →