- [Brian] Sometimes you can just kinda barely tease her.
Oh, there she goes, oh!
There she is, yeah!
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Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
It's another start of an amazing day here,
and I hope the start of your day is incredible as well.
And like I mentioned before, it's a beautiful day,
spring is definitely here, I'm in such a good mood
with blue skies and the weather where I don't
have to be cold outside.
It's still a little chilly but it is getting nice!
I'm actually off to go pickup my buddy Miguel
from Always Evolving Pythons.
Today we have to feel all of the Colubrids,
right Eric?
- That's right.
- So you're feeding babies and adults?
- Babies and adults.
- Holy cow!
That's gotta be at least a couple thousand snakes
that we're gonna be feeding today.
- It's a lot of snakes. - So it's gonna be
a lot of snakes
We're also gonna feed some rabbits to
a couple of the snakes like Butterscotch,
Daisy, I don't think Lucy will eat 'cause she's getting
ready to get gravid but regardless,
let's go ahead and pick up Miguel.
Oh man!
Look who it is man.
- Hi how are you brother? - What's up brother?
What's up dude good to see you man
- Oh man I like your shirt! - You ready to have some fun?
I know, you like that?
- Yes.
- Alright let's go do it.
And so the fun begins
feeding lots and lots and lots of snakes.
We got buckets and buckets of rodents,
frozen rodents, we have to feed.
Your stuff is already out there so
I think what's gonna happen is that
Eric is gonna feed this side,
you're gonna feed that side?
- Sounds like a plan!
- And I actually have some rabbits so
Miguel and myself are gonna go over and
try to see if Lucy'll eat,
she probably won't 'cause she's getting
ready for an ovulation.
I'm gonna try to feed Daisy,
I'm gonna try to feed Butterscotch,
I'll let you guys feed this.
I'll check back with them.
It should be a fun day you guys should get
an idea what it's like to feed thousands
of snakes in a day.
It's awesome to have Miguel around for a day or two.
Always really fun.
I wanted to show you something because you guys
may remember he sent me this snake right here.
- Yeah that thing's mean.
- [Brian] That thing is not mean.
- Dude did you see what it did to me?
- [Brian] No,
this thing is beautiful!
This is Jefferey by the way.
- That's a good name, I like that.
- [Brian] It is a good name right?
But I want you to see how beautiful it is and
how absolutely docile it is.
(hisses)
Look at this.
Look at that!
- What? - [Brian] I can even kiss it
on the face.
Is that cool or what?
- Dude!
- [Brian] Isn't that nuts?
- What'd you do to it?
Oh my gosh man!
This thing would bite me all the time when I had him.
- Yeah we just had to treat it a little bit
better than you did I think.
- Yeah I think that's really what happened.
- No no but I just wanted to show you
isn't he looking great?
- Yeah man he's amazing
- [Brian] He is so beautiful.
- Can I have him back?
(laughing)
- And honestly I really do appreciate it
we love this animal I mean I can't tell you
how much our crew and myself,
I mean that is just a gorgeous snake.
- Dude I love his name!
- [Brian] I wanted to make sure you know
how cool it was right?
- That is really cool!
- Alright so now we can handle the new Cow Retic
- No.
(laughing)
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- So the first thing I'm gonna try to do is
actually feed Lucy.
Again, I don't know if she's gonna eat.
And then Miguel gets to feed Butterscotch,
and that's a fun one.
And this will really give us a good idea where
she's at as far as potentially being gravid.
If she takes a rabbit then she's got a little
way to go, if she doesn't take the rabbit
that tells me she's about to ovulate anytime.
She definitely has interest but I think it might
just be a defensive interest and not and actual
feeding interest.
Just as I suspected.
See how she has zero interest in actually eating
and she's starting to really swell in that
midsection right there,
that tells me that she is definitely ready
for an ovulation soon.
Again we saw Titan breed her a couple different
times so Lucy you're definitely gonna be a momma!
And the thing is as you guys know we have the Bella cam
I'll put a link in the description if you wanna
watch the 24 hour Bella cam.
Well I am definitely gonna get a camera in here and
do a 24 hour stream of Lucy too,
that way when she's laying eggs you guys can actually
watch her laying eggs.
And then eventually watch me try to take them away.
Being inside here I'm thinking myself,
where is she gonna lay eggs?
If she lays over there that's gonna be interesting.
I don't think she can lay over there,
she could potentially lay right here at my feet.
Wherever she's at it's not gonna be fun
gettin' her off her eggs.
Let's go ahead and see if Daisy'll eat,
and then we'll feed Butterscotch.
I'm gonna give you guys a little hint
of what we're doing tomorrow.
As I said we're goin' down to the Cleveland area
to pick up a new animal for the Reptarium.
And it might have something to do with Andrea cleaning out
the tortoise pen.
I'm not gonna say much more about that,
but I will say that there's a bunch of tortoises
walking around the shop somewhere.
I'm not sure where they all are
but she... oh here's one right here.
That's Big Mamma right here.
Again, they're all just kind of bouncing around.
But again, a little hint about
what you're gonna see tomorrow.
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Here we go with Daisy.
She's looking good, she's on the heat.
I'm definitely thinking she's probably gonna wanna eat
but a lot of times she doesn't strike at food.
It just depends on how she's feeling and stuff like that.
Sometimes you just gotta lay it in there
and she takes it when she wants to.
Come on girl, you wanna try to eat?
Sometimes you can just kinda barely tease her.
Oh, there she goes, Oh.
There she is, yeah.
There she goes, she definitely took it.
Alright, that's awesome.
Again, a lot of times just have to lay it in there
'cause she doesn't have that strike response.
But the fact that she's right on the heat
and spring is coming, starting to get a little bit more
aggressive about her feeding so that's awesome.
And we might even feed her a second meal.
But Daisy, you're absolutely amazing.
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So we have, Miguel, you ready?
- Oh yeah. - [Brian] You fed Lucy,
last time right? - Yeah.
- [Brian] Yeah so you're
a conditioned big snake guy - Yeah I was just telling
Noah that she's not that big.
- [Brian] Oh no, she's not that big,
you know the down side is she is at your face.
- Yeah - [Brian] Yeah that is
a little bit of a problem - Just a little bit.
- Noah's gonna be also - Nothing to worry about.
- Nothing to worry about. - I'm sure these guys
are gonna be doing some crazy stuff all day,
so he's gonna be filming.
I don't know what else they're gonna film
while we're feeding and actually doing serious stuff.
These guys are gonna be screwing around so,
as always I'll put a link to Miguel's channel,
I'll also put a link to Noah's channel,
so you guys can check out their prospective of things.
For now, we just need to feed Butterscotch, ya ready?
- Let's do it.
- Alright, don't get bit in the face,
my insurance isn't very good.
- [Noah] I think you're good.
- I mean do I get it close to her?
What do you want me to do?
- [Noah] Just feed it dude.
You get it close to her--
- [Brian] As soon as she smells, alright
now she's got - [Noah] Oh.
- [Brian] She's gonna come out in a second.
- [Noah] Get closer.
- I'm a little nervous.
- [Brian] Oh, uh oh. - [Noah] Now we don't know
where she's at.
- [Brian] Oh it just dipped under.
Oh she's peaking back out.
- [Noah] Come on, baby, come on baby.
It keeps going under and back over.
- [Brian] OK, back up, back up, ah.
- Whoa, shoot.
(laughing)
I was not expecting that.
Oh my gosh. - You sounded a little scared.
Dude. - [Brian] Yeah I thought
for sure you were getting bit.
'Cause you see where she hit, you were holding right here,
she bit right here.
You were like four or five Inches
away from getting bit. - Woah
- 'Cause I felt that man.
- [Noah] You almost got killed.
- That's why you guys want me to feed her.
(laughing)
- We know better, hey listen, I don't wanna get bit.
- Oh my gosh,
dude, that just made me break a sweat right now.
- [Brian] OK, now we gotta - Alright you put that
- [Brian] get her in her cage - thing back.
- [Brian] You get her in her cage.
- I'm not puttin'...
- [Brian] You get her in the cage.
- [Noah] You wanna touch it, I'm not touchin' it.
- I'm mean, it's a nice little just.
- [Brian] Yeah. - [Noah] Yeah.
You've done it before - [Brian] What's the worst
that can happen? - She'll let go and...
- [Noah] You've done this at the club, push her
(laughing)
Uh oh, fast fast fast.
- [Brian] Alright good,
- Now you can do the rest, you can do the rest, Brian.
- [Brian] Good job, Miguel - Good job.
- Alright, so as you can see,
Butterscotch is always a challenge to get eating.
But so far so good, Butterscotch got a rabbit,
Daisy got a rabbit, so like I said,
we only had 3 rabbits.
So, maybe we'll Daisy two, or maybe we'll fill
Butterscotch, we'll see how it goes.
- I'm super excited to kind of tell you guys
what we're gonna do right now.
I didn't really wanna say this when Miguel was around
but we were gonna do a give away
about, I don't know, five months ago,
or four months ago, whatever it is,
about flying someone here to The Reptarium,
paying all the expenses.
And what ended up happening, unfortunately,
is Miguel's dad passed away.
It was a really tough time for him,
and then over the last few months,
we just haven't been able to hook back up
to actually make that happen.
He's felt terrible about it because he really wanted
to make it happen.
And I hope that you guys understand,
I mean, when family things happen like that
it's really difficult and I know Miguel
took it really, really tough.
Well now he wants to kind of make up to that,
and get back to that contest,
so maybe you guys can have an opportunity to win a trip
to The Reptarium.
So here's the deal guys, you can head over to
Miguel's Always Evolving Pythons YouTube page.
And at 11 o'clock eastern standard time,
you're posting a vlog that you were here of course,
or whatever, and you guys need to subscribe,
put a comment into that vlog,
and then what's gonna happen next?
- Sunday I'm gonna announce the winner,
but I'm gonna use a random comment picker.
So it's gonna choose from all the comments there.
It's gonna choose the most unique comment,
I'm gonna upload it, then you're gonna see
who the winner is.
Rules are U.S. only and if you're under 18 years old
you need a parent to accompany you at their own expense.
I will be providing for your flight ticket and your room.
Unless you live really close out here,
then I'm just gonna get you a room,
which will be better for me.
(laughing)
- OK, make sure to head over to Miguel's channel,
I'll put the link in the description.
11 o'clock eastern standard time, his vlog post.
Again, on Sunday he's gonna do another vlog
that has the random picker, if you are in the United States,
over 18 preferably but if you're under 18 you can still win.
You have to bring your parents,
but it's at their own expenses.
He's gonna cover all your other expenses.
We're gonna hang out, we're gonna have a great time together
and that's gonna happen within the next, say,
month, month and a half that you guys can come out here.
We'll figure a date that Works
out for Miguel, - Yes.
- for myself, and for you.
So go ahead check it out, and let's hope
that you can come visit me at The Reptarium.
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Alright so you wrapped up with the feeding,
how did it go?
- Good, actually, it went really good.
I think most stuff was ready to feed,
it was really happy to see the food,
and took it really good.
- And just so you guys know, we literally now
will start feeding twice a week
'cause you really gotta push the females again,
they were through brumation,
they're just always gonna be a little bit on the thin side
and again I always talk about calories in,
production out so we're gonna be going through a lot
of rodents, especially now that we added
a couple hundred more snakes.
So thanks a lot for that Forrest.
It's funny that the rodent guy,
gave us a bunch of snakes - Right, right.
- So now we have to buy more rodents.
But it's definitely gonna be game on,
I mean, these guys are gonna be eatin' like crazy.
When they're eatin' like crazy that means Eric
is gonna be spot cleaning like crazy,
'cause there's gonna be pooping.
This is the last time you're gonna see really beautifully
spotless clean cages 'cause you're gonna constantly
have to be cleaning 'em.
And as soon as you take out some poop,
they're gonna poop again,
but good to hear that he feeding went well
and now we're onto breeding within the next couple weeks.
Daisy did a good job of crushing the first rabbit,
I'm not sure if she'll take another one
or if she usually will just kinda crawl...
oh, it looks like she might take it actually.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, she's ready for sure.
Oh my god.
Like I said, maybe the spring weather,
the warmer weather going on,
not to mention she's on the heat right there.
She definitely took two rabbits really good.
Again, she doesn't strike that much to be honest with you
so it's really cool that she's eating so well.
I tell you what, I couldn't be more happy.
We're doing a quick Brownie's presentation
at The Reptarium tonight.
We got Predeet out over here.
You guys excited about the two headed snake.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Alright, cool.
We got Bowser over there.
We got tortoises out, definitely a fun night.
It's such a great time with the Brownies,
I mean, just really cool.
I mean, they loved all the animals and it's cool that
we're doing more and more of these events
with Cub Scouts, and Brownies, and Girl Scouts,
and school events.
I love sharing it, and the kids were absolutely amazing.
But, I'm not done with my day.
It's been a pretty crazy and hectic day, hasn't it been?
I'm actually going to get a little bit more work done
on my Australian animal sleeve.
And I am back here at my buddy, Bob Tyrell's place,
and we are about to continue
on the Australian animals sleeve.
I'm just gettin' this little spot don't right here.
And I'm gettin' what some people will say the cutest animal
in the world is, of course the Quokka.
It is a living teddy bear, so it should be really cute.
Not a real long tattoo, a few hours at the most
or something like that, so.
Should be really cool, so let's see what we get.
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So this thing is gonna be absolutely cute.
That is a Quokka right there.
And we are making a little bit of progress here,
so it's gonna be so adorable,
I mean, it's literally like a little teddy bear
on my arm.
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Alright, just wrapping up, it's like almost
two o'clock in the morning.
Miguel hung out with me.
Here is the Quokka, look at frickin awesome it is.
I am so happy with it.
But I am very tired, I've gotta get up,
because we have to head to Cleveland.
Only a few hours of sleep.
And it's actually a couple of hours of sleep later,
I actually forgot to end the vlog
last night when I got home.
Like I said, a couple hours of sleep only.
We have an adventure today, but I'm gonna go ahead
and end the vlog, regardless.
Now you can get a little bit better view of my Quokka here.
Absolutely adorable.
Again, some people are probably gonna think
I got a teddy bear, or I don't know, some groundhog
with a smile on my face,
but this is literally the way they look.
It's been a really amazing day,
or at least yesterday was and today is just starting.
It's gonna be amazing and I hope that you guys
have an amazing day, evening,
whenever you guys happen to be watching.
As always, your support means the world to me.
Let me know down in the comments if you like my tattoo,
if you're excited about the adventure
that I'm about to go on.
I am super, super, super excited.
And your guys' support means the world to me.
Do me a couple favors before I get out of here.
Can you smash that like button?
Turn those post notifications on
so you know when I upload a video,
which is everyday, seven days a week at nine o'clock
in the morning eastern standard time.
Remember to be kind to someone,
and I promise I will see you tomorrow,
which is actually today.
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