I totally agree about the pacific gophers. All of my experience with them is with wild caught individuals but I never had a bad experience. I have caught, handled, and kept all ages from hatchlings up to 6ft adults and never been bit by any of them. The 6ft adult I kept actually got my mom over her aversion to snakes eventually. I was a kid and had a tendency to let him cruise arround the house freely since he always came back to his feeding tub when he was hungry.



As far as not seeing the wild type at the Sacramento show I can explain. Basically no one wants to deal with the native species propogation permit here in CA. People deal with it for Cal Kings but not many, none that I know of, deal with it for gophers. But you do see people working with albino's though because if they have pink eyes then they are exempt from the permit requirement.



I should be recieving some pacific gopher's this season but won't have babies for the show for at least a couple years.



Sean.
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