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Hi everyone. I did not want to say anything untill it was a for sure thing but to my surprise it became a sure thing last night so here it is. I was contracted to be a snake handeler on a movey curently in production. The shoot was today and I must say I had an awsome time. This is one of the best times I have had in my herping career. I was to catch Rattle Snakes and be there to control them and keep everyone ells safe while the shoot was being done. In all we had 6 Rattle Snakes in the shoot and it was awsome. After the horably long wait for the loyers and to sign releases and all we were set. In all I worked for 11 hours today and the camera crew got 45 minutes of footage in the 4 hours they were there. We got footage of the snakes rattling and striking and fake hands and just coiled up in defencive positions. I was shocked at how hard it was to make a snake look mad when it was not LOL I know this probably dose not belong in this forum but since I am in this forum the most and you are my peoples LOL I figured I would put it here. The movey is do out somtime around October and lucky me will be in the creadits. I am do to take the 6 snakes to the studio in the next couple of weeks for more footage then the snakes will be released. I did not get paid a whole lot for this but it was enough to make it worth my while but the expearience to work on a movey like this, The chance to educate some people who otherwise were afraid of snakes and the contacts I made are pricless. The only bad thing I see with this is the Movey is a horror movey so hopfully they wont portray the snakes as being to bad but what can you do? Well it has been a long day. I was in the sun for 11 hours and I look like a lobster and I am beet so its off to rest. Oh and one other thing "No animals were hurt in the making of this movey" LOL Sorry couldnt help that one
My Research and Collection

Hey jason, glad everything went well. You'll have to keep us posted on how everything turns out and when things will be released (movie and stuff, not the snakes!)
Congrats again
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****Misty****

Due to budget cuts, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

1.1.2 bearded dragons
1.1.1 water dragons
2.4.5 leopard geckos
8.18.6 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
5.2.0 king snakes
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
0.1.0 rat snake
1.1.0 Leucistic rat snakes
0.0.3 royal (ball) pythons
1.1.0 red headed agamas
0.1.0 chilean rose hair tarantula
1.1.0 emperor scorpions
1.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrots
0.1.0 German Shepherd hybrid dog

i'm glad you had fun today!!! i thought you'd enjoy it!!

~kin
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude)
1. unknown hypo? normal? (Romeo)
.1 Miami Phase (Emily)
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy [Emilys babies])
.1 Amel (Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss het Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Classic het Hypo, Stripe (Gracie Lou)

Rats:
1.1 Black rats (Cecily, Willard)

Cal Kings:
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Skunky, Dweezil)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Normal het Midnight Blizzard (Mr. Spot)
.1 Blizzard

~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLE~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)

Lucky! Don't tell me.... I am picturing an airplane and Samuel L. Jackson?
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0.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1.0 Ball Python "Wilson" (Castaway)
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake "Onyx"
0.0.1 Black Ratsnake "Molly" (Flogging Molly)

As we say in Missouri, "I ain't goin back to Missouri!"

LOL Thanks everyone. Actualy the way the explained it to me is a couple fighting and the woman leaves to go on a walk and cool down and while walking by the lake "We shot this at my local lake so it worked perfect" she stumbles on a Rattle Snake den and she takes a few steps back and then turns to see her husband behind her. He then pushes her in the pit of snakes where you know what happens next LOL Using the fake arm for the bite shots was a whole lot of fun. Its the first time I was able to see defencive strikes and actuale bite to "for the most part" a human arm. I was amased also to see that about 60% of the bites were dry bites but when they did inject venom they realy injected it. The wounds were literaly driping with sirupy yellow Rattle Snake venom. Truly an amasing experience that I hope I get to do a lot more in the future.
FOOT HILL REPTILES

What a nice husband....jerk
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude)
1. unknown hypo? normal? (Romeo)
.1 Miami Phase (Emily)
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy [Emilys babies])
.1 Amel (Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss het Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Classic het Hypo, Stripe (Gracie Lou)

Rats:
1.1 Black rats (Cecily, Willard)

Cal Kings:
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Skunky, Dweezil)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Normal het Midnight Blizzard (Mr. Spot)
.1 Blizzard

~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLE~~~~~~~~~~~~
.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)

LOL Calm down its just a movie
FOOT HILL REPTILES