- Oh my God, look at this, guys.
Actually, Lucy blew her cage up, big old turds.
Look at these turds down here.
Looks like she shed well, but she shed all over the place.
The problem is, is that we actually have an event here
in less than an hour.
So I'm gonna try to get Lucy.
Please don't bite me, girl.
Please don't bite me.
Come on girl.
(grunting)
I am definitely pressed for time today.
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.
Oh, I don't like the way she's looking at...
Whoa. I don't like the way-- sometimes I can read this girl
and I know when she's not looking
like she wants to come out.
Oh my gosh, come on, girl.
Help me out here a little bit.
(grunts)
Wrangling a 20 foot snake is not easy.
Come on, girl.
Come on over.
Come on, good girl.
Gotta get her out of her cage
and then I gotta get this cleaned up.
Like I said, an event is happening in an hour.
It's a kids event, and I don't want
the place to look terrible.
Got her out of her cage.
Now I have to get her into a tub, by myself.
No one else is here but Jay, obviously behind the camera.
- [Jay] That's me.
- I'm on my own here.
Okay, girl, come on.
In the tub, in the tub.
Oh, she's not going to be happy about this.
Come on, sweetheart.
(sigh)
Starting the day out, it's adrenaline filled
because I'm like, "Oh my God."
I came in and I'm like "holy cow,
we can't have kids coming in here
with big turds and sheds all over the place.
Okay, okay, one down. Check this out,
anacondas have a bunch of urinates in here,
so I have to clean this before the kids come.
And then, Kush blew his cage up over here.
So, oh my God. We've got our work cut out for us.
Time's against us.
Let's get the equipment in here and clean these enclosures.
(upbeat music)
Oh my gosh guys. Look at the size of these turds!
Oh my goodness, that's the first thing I need to do
is get all these turds out of here.
Gotta clean up the shed then will have to drain the water.
Get this thing going. This is only cage one of three
that we have to clean in the next about forty-five minutes.
So, we definitely have our work cut out for us, for sure.
Got no choice, usually I have crew here
in the morning, so I can kinda tag team things.
Today I am here alone gotta do it all myself.
And like I said, I don't want a dozen or fifteen kids
showing up with this mess because
it's not gonna look good on the zoo, right?
So, okay, let's just jump into it.
Don't have time to chat.
Big animals definitely take a lot of work when
it comes to keeping them clean,
but it's even worse when you're a public exhibit,
where people are coming, the public is coming,
in this case a birthday party.
You obviously want the place
to look as good as possible.
So, hey, sometimes these things happen
in an untimely matter and we've gotta take care of it.
This may be the quickest clean that I've ever done.
I mean, I am freaking out,
it's like again I want to get this done.
Now I have to move on to Ivy and Ariana and Jaz's
cage and I'll eventually hit baby Kush.
I'm just going to fill this water up.
Get Lucy back in her cage and then move on to Ivy.
Okay, Lucy. She looks good, I'm glad that she
didn't even need to get a soak because she shed really well.
She kinda blew her cage up a little bit, but
(grunt).
Come on big girl, help me out a little bit.
Nope, not that way, not that way, not that way.
Oh come on, come on.
Y'all some people go to the gym
in the morning, get a little pump on
to get the day started.
I don't need that. No, I've got this.
There she goes, back up in the tree.
Yeah, bye bye Lucy.
She always does it, every single time,
she crawls in her tree,
she acts like a green tree python in a tree.
But, nevertheless, cage cleaned up.
Let's move on to Ivy.
And, Ariana is out here to, uh, say,
"Hey, what's going on, Dad? What are you doing?"
Such a silly monkey. So, basically there's some
urates and stuff like that.
When people come into the zoo,
especially with this enclosure,
it's like the highlight- what are you doing, Silly?
This is the highlight of the whole place.
So, we want it to look really good, right?
So, I'm just going to have to vac out some
of the urates and make the water look a little bit better.
So, it doesn't look dirty, you know what I mean?
All right, you girl, you're gonna have
to go inside, and I'm going to have
to get in here and start to clean.
I wish I had time, you know, to do all this stuff
is not a big deal, but to do all this stuff
in an hour, is ridiculous.
Here we go.
(vacuum running)
(vacuum stops)
- What happened?
- Can you turn it off and then turn back on?
And now, my PondoVac is broke.
Aw, this is a big problem because, you know,
this is something I use every single day,
all over the place here.
And, I don't know exactly what's going on,
but it won't turn on.
It just kinda turns on and then it turns off.
Just what I need. Not today Baby, not today.
Come on, please, please, please.
(vacuum putters)
You can hear it just like it turns on
and then turns right back off.
Oh gosh, ah. What to do now?
Aw, this was the last thing I needed today.
(grunts)
Splashed myself with dirty poop water, that's always good.
Come on, please.
(vacuum puttering)
I'm beat. Oh, now I don't know what to do.
All right, well, we don't have time,
so what I'm going to do is,
I'm going to put this aside for a second.
Maybe, it just needs to cool down.
I'm gonna go on to Baby Kush's cage.
So, we got a couple handy tools.
This is actually for, getting you know, the crevices
of this little area here. This is a little bit
of disinfectant on this side.
Baby Kush is waiting for us,
so let's hope we can just kind of get Baby Kush to move.
Come on Baby Kush. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.
Go ahead, move, move, move, move.
There ya go Buddy. There you go.
Good job. All right, so basically what
I'm going to do is spray a bunch of this,
get it nice and wet.
You can see it already loosened up as it disinfects it.
Now, come back and I'll try to first off just
(vacuum running)
Then I go back,
I spray a little bit more of disinfectant.
Then this time, I use my handy dandy little brush here.
I get it like this.
(brush sweeping)
- [Jay] Uh oh.
- Baby Kush is interested.
Baby Kush! You can't eat this.
(Jay laughs)
He's like what are you doing over here?
(vacuum running)
All right, cage two down. We still have the anaconda thing.
The good thing is I did suck a lot
of the urates out before the PondoVac broke.
So, uh, worse case scenario we're gonna be okay,
but I sure would like to get that thing working,
so we can get this last one.
Again, we have about fifteen minutes
before people start showing up, so, uh, yeah.
We'll go ahead and kind of just spruce this up
for a second and then get over there
and hopefully that PondoVac works.
I guess we're going to have to buy a new one.
Moment of truth.
(vacuum runs and stops)
Darn it!
We've been using this thing every day
for about a year now and it's been a lifesaver.
I've never had a problem with it.
Of course today when I need it the most,
I have a problem with it.
So, again, the enclosure doesn't look perfect,
but it looks good enough where it's not like horrible.
But, uh, yeah, I guess we're gonna have to --
You can just see it wants to turn on,
but it just won't turn on.
So, oh well.
So, we got Lucy's cage all cleaned up,
Baby Kush's cage looks good. This looks about halfway good.
Not much I can do. The only thing I can do,
I do have a drain. I can drain this entire pond,
and then go in there, and clean it out,
and then fill it back up.
The problem is, that it takes about an hour
and we have like ten minutes before the party shows up.
So, we're gonna just have to spruce it up
the best we can with what we have and call it a day.
- There you go buddy. Stuck to the tongs.
Chong eating off of the tongs.
Ever since we've been getting them to eat off of the tongs,
he's been able to chill on my shoulder.
He's on my shoulder and head
for thirty, forty minutes.
But, yeah he's doing good. Look at him.
He's just hanging out on my shoulder.
He was just hanging out on my head.
But, he was slipping and stuff,
so I moved him over.
I don't think it gets much better than this.
This is all I've ever wanted from a monitor.
Just a little shoulder pet. Kidding me?
And when he gets full grown (blows air) it'll be so cool
just to be able to have an argus monitor that's so tame.
Where you can just have him around your neck
and shoulder and stuff like that.
The highest score, so pretty excited about that.
And, he's eating, it's a great day.
(upbeat music)
There you guys go. Argus monitors? Love them.
Cheech and Chong baby.
We need Cheech and Chong to meet Cheech and Chong,
so if you know Cheech and Chong,
make sure to reach out to Cheech and Chong,
to meet Cheech and Chong.
Mom didn't want me to have a parrot, so this will do fine.
I should get like little crickets and
just, like, keep them in my pocket.
And just (mouth clicks) feed him a cricket.
- And like I said, I mean the enclosure
doesn't look perfect by any stress.
But, it looks good enough.
I don't think anyone's going to come in and be like,
"Oh those guys don't take care of their animals."
But, we're obviously gonna
have to reach out to the PondoVac people,
figure out what the warranty is on that thing
because it's a great tool. I love it to death.
But, for it to break within a year, that's kind of a bummer.
Now we do use it a lot, I give it that.
But, still I would think something like that
would actually last for five years or something like that.
It's not a cheap piece of equipment,
I can tell you that much.
So, definitely got to get a new one
'cause without that we are dead in the water.
And, just in the nick of time,
just as we finished up everything,
our birthday party is showing up.
So, uh, it worked out well.
A lot of hectic way to start the morning,
but hey it all worked out.
(upbeat music)
(indistinct chatter)
And like I mentioned yesterday when I was going
and ultrasounding all those ball pythons for breeding,
the storm hit. That's right.
Yesterday no snow on the ground,
today lots of snow on the ground
and we're supposed to get another
like three to four inches.
So, it was good timing.
What do you say we go over
and check and see how many males actually are locked up.
It's always exciting, but also there's a little bit
of nervous anticipation every time
'cause when storms come, it's huge.
We worked our butt off
to get everything ultrasounded yesterday to get males in.
So, let's hope it wasn't all for not.
Let's go ahead and check all these males.
(upbeat music)
In here we have an albino clown that's bred
to a double head albino clown.
And we're about six males in,
and already three of them are hooked up.
So, things are definitely moving in the right direction.
Let's hope a lot of males are hooked today.
It is exciting.
Oh my gosh, it's going to be egg time before you know it!
♪ Egg time ♪
(upbeat music)
There's a lot of really cool ball pythons
I cannot wait to see what happens with.
But, this pairing is really amazing.
This is the mystery to mystery ball python collection.
So, you can see they both have
that similar kind of granded patternless look to them.
No idea what's going to happen with this clutch,
but oh my goodness, if we get eggs,
that is going to be
one of the most anticipating collections of the year.
The birthday party is here. They're having a great time.
And although, it was a hectic morning getting ready
to get all these animals cleaned up. This is why we do it.
They're having a great time.
I'm having a great time watching them. It's amazing.
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I literally got the crap scared out of me.
I walked over here a second ago
and I'm looking and I'm like, "Where is RJ? Where is he at?"
And I'm thinking like he may have got out.
I'm thinking like where am I going
to find him and stuff like that.
Well, guess where he is.
Right down here hiding.
He never really goes to this spot.
He's always either over here or over there.
So, literally, my heart dropped for a second.
Like, I lost my alligator, where's he at.
Another cool lock here.
I love this male, I've actually been breeding him
for a couple years.
Usually we upgrade males and after one
or two seasons we don't breed them very much.
But, I just love this particular pairing.
This is actually a calico pin yellow belly
and it's bred to a pastel,
just to produce some really cool
lemon blast calico yellow bellies.
Beautiful snakes.
So, uh, this girl is getting close to an ovulation too.
So, man I tell ya definitely a lot of breeding today.
Just like I expected.
(upbeat music)
Well, it was a hard day yesterday
getting every female ultrasound,
but it definitely paid off.
We had the most males hooked up today out
of the entire breeding season.
A lot of females were literally at that point
of 33 millimeter follicles,
which is basically just before ovulation.
Which is just before egg laying and so one last breeding.
I think we have three or four females that are done now.
Males were hooked up,
and they are ready to ovulate in the next week.
After ovulation, 50 days til eggs.
So, I tell ya, egg season
for 2022 is literally about two months away.
Yep and Lucy is still up in her tree.
We have a full day of events.
Gonna be amazing here.
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and enjoyed the energy it took to get the place together
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