Nov 12 - 13, 2005 Live Oak Photos

Texas Reptile Hospice and Sanctuary

I have finally posted photos on Flickr of the November 12 & 13, 2005 Hot Reptile Show held in Live Oak Texas just outside San Antonio. There were a lot of really beautiful reptiles there and other than just a few very large Rattlesnakes and a very large Gaboon Viper most of the other "hot" snakes were babies.

I hope everyone takes time to have a look at the photos and please let me know how they load, view etc on Flickr since this is the first time I've used Flickr. Also if you find any photo that I have incorrectly named the animal, please don't hesitate to let me know!

Also, while I have included the Texas Reptile Hospice and Sanctuary photos and one of their scanned business cards, I will shortly be creating a separate Flickr and post just for their site as it is very important for people to learn the beauty and benefits of living with reptiles. Check back for that often and please visit their webpage and donate for the sake of the animals. Remember, reptiles need love too! I thank you and so do all the staff at the hospice not to mention the animals!

Texas Reptile Hospice and Sanctuary

Texas Reptile Expo documentary video is online now

The documentary video is up and online on vidiLife.com - click here to see it.

Unfortunately vidiLife automatically "re-sizes" the video file so you may not be able to play it properly if you're using a low-bandwidth connection such as a 56k modem dial-up. I looks like vidiLife doesn't give me any control over that. If I can find another hosting service that lets me do things my way, I may move the files there and if I do I will post here to let everyone know.

On the subject of hosting, Kate will probably start using flickr.com as the place to store her animal (and other) photos.

I'd like to thank all those at the show that gave permission for me to use the footage I took in making the documentary. All the names I have are listed in the credits at the end of the video - if you're not there please let me know and I'll fix that.

--Pete

Photos

Here are a few of the photos from the San Antonio reptile show in Live Oak. I will find a place to host photos so that I can load more and have thumbnails etc rather than posting largish pictures here. I do plan on organizing the ones here a bit nicer tomorrow. For now I just wanted to get some of them posted.

The video is coming along nicely as well so hopefully Pete will have that done soon and a link added for those who wish to see it.

I am also working on a separate piece about the reptile shelter. I hope to give them some press so that they might get a few donations to help with food, care, facilities etc for all the animals they keep. I will try to have that up soon.

All in all it was pretty cool show. I've always wanted to see one of the hot shows and this one was. There were spitting cobras and gaboon vipers and loads of rattlesnakes and a beautiful banded krait.

I got numerous shots but venomous snakes are kept in closed, taped containers so some of the photos are rather hazy. Still, the containers are good because a bite from oh, say, a krait would mean death unless you received fast knowledgeable medical help. Very quickly.

Not to mention the need of an iron lung since the venom stops your breathing. A krait was the same species that killed Dr. Joe Slowinski while working in the field in Myanmar. Very sad loss that was.

Dr. Joe Slowinski's site

Outside Online: Bitten