Hey, all. I’m so sorry about the radio silence for the past few months, and I wanted to drop by real quick to give you all a little update. I’m afraid it’s going to be pretty quiet around here for a while, and I’ve come back to a lot of worried messages so I wanted to keep you all in the loop. I’ve recently had some pretty big family things going on - my grandma has been moved into hospice care. It’s obviously taking up a lot of my time as I want to spend time with her, and my venom lab has been amazing about letting me pick up as many shifts as I want so I can have a little extra income to he ..read more

I don’t need a rating since this is an ambassador animal at my local wildlife rehab, but I had to share this poor sad unenriched beast that has nothing better to do than try to scale the smooth wall apparently (with bonus aftermath of the tumble) ? gotta wonder what goes through their silly little heads when they do something like this when there’s clearly a perfectly climbable wall right there. I feel like this is the snake equivalent of getting your cat a lovely toy fit for all their preferences and they’d much rather bat around the tag that came attached to it. – What a goofy baby! You can ..read more

Hello hello! I have plenty of experience with MBKs and Cali kings, and they're both great picks. In general you're looking at a very similar experience with both! The biggest difference is that, depending on where you live, MBKs can be a bit harder to find. Both like moderate humidity, around the 40-60% range is great, and a hot side around 85-88 F. These are super simple perimeters to maintain and even first-time owners rarely have problems with these two species. You'll rarely have issues feeding either species, too! Cali kings can get a bit bigger but you're still looking at about a 3-4 foo ..read more

Got a bit busy this week, so we're celebrating Miriam Mwednesday today. It's almost food time, so she's been "hunting" around her enclosure the past few days ..read more

Florida kingsnake. Harmless and adorable ..read more

A 120 gallon is fine, that's a perfectly acceptable minimum enclosure size for a ball python. However, if you can go bigger, by all means do so! Your snake will use every inch of space you give her, and bigger is always better ..read more

geeko-sapiens: catchymemes: babyanimalsvideos: @is-the-snake-video-cute I’m pretty sure it’s cute but what kind of snake is that? Thanks for tagging me! Yeah, this is fine. That’s a Trans Pecos ratsnake, a blond morph specifically! Trans Pecos rats are great - my guy Stede is an absolute blast ..read more

Hi there! I'm on the payroll at a venom lab (not my full-time job anymore but we have a very long working relationship) and I process that the process is not rough at all and the animals are treated very well. Now, venom extraction is never going to be fun, but every possible precaution is taken to make sure the snake is comfortable. If it looks like they're being squished, I promise they're not applying a lot of pressure, but the person doing the extraction does have to make sure to hold the snake down firmly so they can't just pop right off the funnel. Sometimes they'll squeeze the sides of ..read more

Hello hello! It's entirely up to your personal preference. It's possible to buy adult snakes from breeders and to find babies at rescues, but you're right that generally speaking a rescue will be an adult. Getting a baby snake from a breeder: You know the snake's history exactly, from birthday to the ability to get the snake's lifelong food records, etc. You get to watch the snake grow up! You might have to change adult enclosure sizes as your snake grows - you can put a baby snake in its adult enclosure, but personally I find it way too easy to lose, say, baby cornsnakes in adult-sized enclo ..read more

That is a western diamondback rattlesnake - and this experience really goes to show how tolerant most venomous snakes are of being bothered before they'll try to bite! I definitely don't mean to scare you at all by saying that this is a venomous snake! There are easy ways to make sure your dogs don't run up on a snake like this again - being careful to avoid potential hiding spots that you can't see underneath (such as close to brushes/shrubs in this case) can help, and when I'm walking my dog when it's dark out, I prefer to carry a flashlight so I can make sure no snakes or other critters are ..read more