Kingsnake Journals

The Antivenom Interviews is making a series of webminars available in several formats as a way to raise funds for their project and the first one is super super cool!

This one reachs more than venom folks and herpers but those who own dogs and cats and live in many places in the US but also the world. These are not free but there is also no set cost! It is a donation and the reality is the donation can be as small as what you would have spent at Starbucks! So here is the info on Webminar 1 that happens this Friday!

Photo of the Day by freyman. Tell them you liked it here.

Herp Photo of the day by user  Wacky_Menagerie. Tell them you liked it here.

Look how wee this lil African House Snake is! They are so tiny and adorable at the same time! Sometime we forget about the little species out there and they go underappreciated! They have amazing iridescent scales just like rainbow boas that glitter so beautifully in the light and stay a nice small size with a mellow personality!

Photo of the day by user CaptiveSnakes. Tell them you liked it here!

Photo from photo gallery by kingsnake.com member DwarfBitis of "Venom of Crotalus oreganus helleri" Tell Them you like it here 

Phtoto of Blood Python by user BrassmanReptiles. Tell them you like it here.

For those who remember The Venom Interviews, Ray Morgan is working on a new project, The Antivenom Interviews:The Global Snakebite Crisis and the Evolution of Treatment. Here is one of the videos he did promoting the project. Antivenom 101.

You can check out the project and donate at The Antivenom Interviews. I will be honest, I am one of the projects ambassadors and I did assist on some of the filming that will be used in the project. So I am pretty excited for the funds to be raised and the project to take off!

Inset Photo random booth from NARBC Tinley of the past

I bet that is two thing you never thought you would hear together? Rattlesnakes and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, huh? Well fun fact, Copperheads, Southern Copperheads (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) are contributing to breast cancer research!  There is a protien in their venom that inhibits the growth of breast cancer. I share this every year, I find an article or the study to share. But today when I found the study, I scrolled and read it again and then kept scrolling and realized exactly how many more studies this one lead to or was related to. So click here to go to the original study, but take a moment to scroll down and see just a handful of things we have learned from our venomous animals. 

#RattlesnakeFriday is a hashtag made to raise awareness about the need for conservation of ALL venomous animals. While we may mostly highlight rattlesmakes, you might see some other stuff smattered in. 

Holyfield, the new rescue intake to Small Scale Reptile Rescue

Monday Blues? How about some good news!

ONE Login for Kingsnake

We are working on updating a lot of our databases and one of them is our shows!

Each month like clockwork, five dollars disappears. I never really miss it, I get an email telling me it is gone. I am a Bronze Sustaining member of USARK. In total, it is $60 per year to them, a little more than regular bronze and it is a little more than two tacos a month for me so I never notice. USARK is essential to our community.