Braden Holtby Held Up at the Canadian Border with Turtle Issues

All Braden Holtby and his wife Brandi wanted to do was start their life in Vancouver and wouldn't you know, their transition started at a Turtle's pace....literally.

Braden was recently heading north to Canada and was held up at the border and Brandi ended up reaching out to the masses of Twitter to try and get someone to pull some strings as they were stuck at Customs trying to bring their Turtles north. Don't believe us...?

Hey Twitter, does anyone have any sweet connections with Federal Fish and Wildlife that could push some export papers along in order to get two happy tortoises across the border? 🇨🇦🐢🐢🇺🇸 We miss our boys!

— Brandi Holtby (@bbholtby) November 18, 2020

Turns out the paperwork had been filed with the Canadian government but not with the American side of things.  

No, we didn’t know we needed an export permit (we did do the import permit for the Canadian side) so now Braden is stuck at the border with two tortoises 🙈

— Brandi Holtby (@bbholtby) November 18, 2020

Brandi kept everyone updated and it appears everything will be sorted out and Holtby and his family can be reunited and able to focus on next season, his first as a Vancouver Canuck after 10 seasons in Washington.

 🐢🐢 UPDATE: Thank you to all of the kind souls out there who have made an effort to help! FWS is aware of our situation and they are working towards a solution to get Braden and the boys home!🇨🇦

— Brandi Holtby (@bbholtby) November 19, 2020

Photo credit: Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire

Welcome to Canada, Honey and Maple! 🇨🇦 Huge shout out to @USFWS for working so hard for us! Thank you for everyone’s concern.. NOW you may laugh at the image of Braden being stuck at the border with a tortoise under each arm. 🐢👨🏽‍🌾🐢

— Brandi Holtby (@bbholtby) November 20, 2020