trip to Sonoma Reptile Rescue today

[Bay_area]

I found 6 rattlesnakes on Halloween in someones garage up in Berkeley hills.
The mother & 5 babies

I took all but one up to Sonoma Reptile rescue today since he is legally allowed to release them back into the wild. He has a great operation up there. People were there dropping off produce to feed the many turtles & tortoises he has if the back yard.

Bread for the buffalos

He has several snakes on hand. He does reptile education shows with them. Some had been abused before ...others were really nice looking
he had a couple of neat patterned Redtailed boas


& of course he had a bunch of rattlers. I forget how many times he said he has been bitten, but it was qute a few. Here is a pic of the Western Diamondback Rattlesnake he uses for his shows. I have never seen an C. atrox this mellow


All in all it was a fun day BTW, I couldn't help but to adopt a Mojave rattlesnake while I was there

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

you must really like venomous snakes, i had a vine snake once does that count? o and did he say what type of red-tail boa this was?

[Thamnophis]

That is fine C. atrox!

[Snaky]

Some nice pics and stunning atrox

[Lori P]

Wow, very very cool place! Does he raise the buffalo or are they also rescues? And send pics of the one you adopted!!! :-)

[drache]

what I cool place
so where's the pic of the snake you adopted?

[anji1971]

Man I wish I lived in your area, that would be such a great place to take the kids for a visit! I never realized rattlers could get so big around-- he looks kinda like a big stuffed sausage!!! And, yes, how rude of you to show us all these animals and not even one pic of the one you adopted........shame on you!!

[RZL36]

you must really like venomous snakes, i had a vine snake once does that count? o and did he say what type of red-tail boa this was?

The vine snake does count. If you ever pulled its mouth back you will see some fangs. The Asian vines are not so bad, but the South American ones have really messed people up good.

The atrox seems really chill. I want a crotalid .

[reptileparadise]

Looks like you had a very nice day!

[adamanteus]

Lovely looking C. atrox. Something always confuses me..... some of these people who keep venomous snakes, the ones who 'can't remember how many times they've been bitten' always have to 'free handle' the snakes. Why are they surprised when they get nailed?
I kept venomous species of many types for about twenty years. I never 'free handled' and I never got bitten. Seems sensible to me!