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Update! We did it! The ad is fully funded via donations.  We will keep the fund raiser open until the end of the month to allow the product parties to wrap up as well.  Extra funds will be used for additional educational purposes. Thank you to all who donated!!!    Help us spread our message! Most hermit crabs are purchased as a beach vacation souvenir from a shop that does not provide any care information. Some of these new owners find their way to our community and get the help they need. All of them are shocked, many feel duped and angry that they wereRead More →

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LHCOS is excited to introduce our latest Local Representative! Meet Rita… Hey everyone, I’m Rita.  Honored to be a member of this amazing group of hermit crab enthusiasts. I live in south Jersey with my very significant other.  We’re just miles away from the boardwalk where so many of these little guys are sold.  And yes, it’s so hard not to just go “rescue” them all…but that’s sadly not how it works. I started off as so many of us did just enamored with having hermit crabs and subsequently doing everything wrong.  Fortunately I found LHCOS…they saved my crabbies. Several months ago I became aRead More →

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The Crab Street Journal is a creation of the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society. This online community for land hermit crab owners was established in 1999 as Yahoo! Group and has continued to grow and expand. Our focus is providing free access to accurate and current care information for pet land hermit crabs. Our site is accessible to all without a need for registration but to interact with other members, you must create a free account. The Crab Street Journal is the flagship site for the Land Hermit Crab Owners Society and is a resource library for land hermit crab care. The Crab Street MarketRead More →