Tortoise Hares Animal Sanctuary

We’re a nonprofit animal sanctuary for exotic pets and farm animals. She resides with her two children, Hannah & Hunter. "She is my muse."

"Designs By iLeah" owner, iLeah Marie, has her workshop nestled in the mountains in beautiful Cobb, California. About DBI:
iLeah started her jewelry making journey when she landed a job for a company called Wisteria Jewelry in 2005. Originally on the assembly line, iLeah proved herself to be a creative & skilled artisan, and had an eye for perfection. Before she knew it, the owner of Wisteria invi

ted her to work as one of the main production team members. She was responsible for making all of the dragonflies, butterflies, hearts, and other complicated shapes that Wisteria Jewelry offered. In 2007, iLeah discovered an innovative way of bending wire into names, and that's when Designs By iLeah was born! She continued to work for Wisteria Jewelry while bartending full time, and taking necklace orders from friends and family in her spare time to try to build her brand. In 2012, ambitious and pregnant with her first child, Ileah stopped bartending, and launched "Designs By iLeah Shop" on Etsy. She focused all of her energy on making jewelry, and "nesting" for the arrival of her baby girl. In March of 2013, the birth of her daughter forever changed her life for the better... "Hannah inspires and motivates me everyday!" said the new mother. In November of 2016, her family welcomed the birth of Hannah’s little brother, Hunter. “Raising two feral little wildlings is challenging at times,” says iLeah, “but I wouldn’t change them for the world!”

In February of 2020, before the novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic, iLeah closed up shop, pulled her daughter from school, and enrolled her in online school. “Since January, I was paying close attention to what was happening in China. I watched every press briefing from the World Health Organization, and saw horrific videos on Twitter that were coming from China.” iLeah said. “It was all enough to scare me into not wanting to leave my house! Then, when our government brought home 195 people from China, quarantined them for 14 days, and then released them back into the population without first testing them for the virus, I knew they were making a grave mistake. I took Hannah out of public school soon after that and immediately enrolled her into K12.”

iLeah went on to say, “I took a year off to homeschool Hannah. It was hard at first, but we’ve found our groove, and I’m ready to reopen my shop to start creating again.”

09/10/2023

Tortoise Hares welcomed 6 goats to the sanctuary about a week ago! Their previous owner had been trying to rehome them for awhile, and we’ve been looking for awhile! It was quite serendipitous. They kept the original 2 they started with, and rehomed the rest with us. We have two whethers (castrated males), one buckling, and 3 pregnant females. The whethers are Nigerian dwarfs, and the other 4 are pygmy. They are so much fun! They love to be pet & scratched behind their horns, and are easy to herd. 🤗🩷🐐

18/02/2023

FREE TO GOOD HOME:
This is Freya. She’s a large 10 month old Husky/Shepherd mix with high energy and a loving personality. We rescued her from a bad situation and now she’s ready to find her forever home.
Located between Cobb and Kelseyville California.
We’ve always wanted to be strictly an exotic pet and small to medium farm animal rescue. We weren’t going to take in dogs or cats, but sometimes, it’s hard to say ”no”. 😅
Freya is very smart, and will make an excellent companion!

16/12/2022

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Dresser Chicken Coop

28/11/2022

Hi everyone! 🌟 You can support our cause by sending Stars - they help us earn money; 100% goes towards food costs for our sanctuary rescues. 🤗🐢🐇

Whenever you see the Stars icon, you can send us Stars!

28/11/2022

We made our tortoise, Spike, a no-bake pumpkin pie this weekend. He was suspicious of it at first, but after the first bite, he was sold! 😂🥧🐢

He’s been eating again for only about a week and a half since his injury. He’s recovering nicely, and has a checkup with the vet on December 1st. 🤗🙏💜

21/11/2022

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Messy Tortoise!

21/11/2022

Spike’s boring recovery diet. Lol! 😅🐢
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Spike’s Recovery Diet

21/11/2022

Giving Spike an injectable antibiotic! 🤯https://youtube.com/shorts/rMilBrYQ0zs?feature=share

Injecting Spike’s Antibiotics

21/11/2022

Our 13 year old rescued tortoise, Spike.
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Spike The Wonder Tortoise

20/11/2022

We’re excited to announce that we’re revamping this page (formerly Designs by iLeah) to reflect our animal rescue/sanctuary endeavors. We will be submitting an application to become a legitimate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization! 😃🙌🤗💜

At this time, our focus is on exotic pets and small to medium farm animals, but our vision is to expand our facilities to accept larger farm animals, and wildlife to house for rehabilitation before releasing back into the wild.

We’re located on a beautiful 40 acres in Northern California. We have the land, but lack the infrastructure to house more animals. Up to this point, everything has been out of pocket to feed and house our 10 rescue rabbits, 6 chickens, and our 13 year old rescued tortoise, Spike.

I hope you’ll follow along on our journey! If you’d like to make a monetary donation, you can do so here: PayPal.me/TortoiseHares
If you’d like to donate lumber, fencing, cages, or bags of food, please email us at [email protected]

20/11/2022

Tortoise Hares Animal Sanctuary updated their information in their About section.

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FREE TO GOOD HOME: This is Freya. She’s a large 10 month old Husky/Shepherd mix with high energy and a loving personali...

We made our tortoise, Spike, a no-bake pumpkin pie this weekend. He was suspicious of it at first, but after the first ...

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