- Look at my baby girl here.
Hi, Ivy, what are you doing, sweetheart? Hi, baby girl.
What're you doing? I missed you so much.
It's been a while since I've been able to sit with her
and just have to chill out with her.
Of course, I was gone for so long and this is our second day
back, and the truth is that, getting an opportunity
to just to spend time with my animals
is so absolutely amazing. Being away was amazing
and we got to do so many amazing things, but being back
is just incredible. I mean, look at Ivy, she's like,
"Dad, I missed you." And to get a chance to just sit in here
with my kind of therapy animal, you know what I mean,
is absolutely amazing. The truth is, in all honesty, is that
we filmed so much on this road trip, but we actually
did a lot more. And there was a few places that we went to
that just didn't kinda fit into a normal vlog, right?
And I hate to waste that footage
because there were some amazing experiences. Hi, baby.
What are you doing? The first one I wanna share
with you guys is actually, we went to Mark McCarthy's place
which is McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary, absolutely an
amazing place. So we got to see all his cool animals.
And again, I wanted to make sure to show you guys
so let's go ahead and roll that clip.
I've been wanting to come here for a long time.
Do me a favor and go show them some love.
As a matter of fact, recently, they got their
Instagram account hacked, so I'm gonna put a link
in the description, show them some love.
Let's go look at some cool animals.
Hey, Luna.
Hi, Luna.
- Oh my gosh. This is the most beautiful thing in the world.
- With these cats, males are usually around 50 to 60 pounds,
females around 40, 30 to 40. And this i a female.
- This is definitely my favorite of all the cats for sure.
Of course the clouded leopard. I just love the way
that these guys look and they have such giant paws when
they get bigger. They're not a giant cat by any stretch.
When they're actually big, their paws are just so big
and they're just so amazing. And of course, they have that
beautiful clouded pattern. I mean, I am so excited that
I got a chance to interact with them. It's been years since
I've been able to do it. And this guy is so
absolutely adorable. So, you guys know that I love blue
and Solaris and by the way, this reptile room
is to die for. I want to live here. I love this restaurant
but of course these are blue and Solaris here
and guess what? They just had babies this morning.
So take a look at all these little baby blue and Solaris.
Look at all of these baby blue and Solaris.
Two.
Three, four, five.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
So we got a little kinkajou here, absolutely lovely animals.
Look at those beautiful eyes. Unbelievable.
Of course, heavily nocturnal of course.
And these guys love sweets, too. You gotta be a little
careful with the sweet side of things because
they can get diabetic. Believe it or not.
So that's kind of an interesting thing, too. So definitely
a cute little dude. Unbelievable.
I mean, you can't get much cuter than a kinkajou
that's for sure.
- Okay.
- That's okay.
- Whoops, no biting, no biting. How are you?
- And she's not bad for 30.
- You said she's 30. Wow. 30 years old. That's amazing.
- I've had him about 20 years
- 20 years. Wow, beautiful.
- I had a lady come over with her son and they bought it
at a pet store.
- A pet store?
- Yeah.
- Oh my God.
- Then I started thinking maybe it's a non-American croc.
- Yeah.
- But then looking at it.
- So just take a look at this room. I mean, unbelievable.
We have tropical rattlesnakes. Albino atrox.
Got Gaboon Vipers down here. I mean, I am in heaven.
Big old diamond back over here. Oh my gosh.
You can go through banded rock rattlesnakes right here.
I mean, banded rock rattlesnakes are some of my favorites.
I mean, there is just, this room is so clean, so amazing
and full of just really cool animals from, you know,
Bushmasters to, I mean, look at this Bushmaster over here.
That is just absolutely incredible. I love those guys.
And then this puff adder over here is to die for.
I mean, look at the color on that puff adder right there.
Oh my gosh. That is just incredible.
And you could just go on Mitchell lye, which are of course
the rattlesnakes from the Chiricahuas.
You got, oh my gosh. You know, it just keeps going on.
You've got, of course, you've got Schlegel eye here
right in the back. Look at that one right there.
Oh this is awesome. Little coral Cobra here.
Back to go. Of course the spectacles have that beautiful.
You know, once you really think of a Cobra
and you've got that big spectacle on the back of their hood.
Oh my goodness. I could spend just hours just looking around
this room alone.
Take a look at this as a little tiger salamander.
Amber stoma Triangulum. Absolutely incredible.
I love little salamanders. As for this place, it's
definitely really cool. I mean, I've been following
for a long, long time online just to see it and to see it
in person, it's actually way nicer than it ever thought
it was going to be. So much more stuff here.
So again, McCarthy's wildlife. Unbelievable.
I mean, and we're just getting going. We got a lot more
to see. If I look at it, it's like a little jungle
back here. This is awesome.
After seeing so many amazing crocodilians down in Florida,
it's definitely cool to come back to my alligators.
I don't have any crazy Niles or Salty's or something
like that. But the fact was is Mark's place was unbelievably
stunning when it comes down. I probably have never been
to a cleaner sanctuary than Mark McCarthy's.
That place is absolutely amazing.
And then we actually had a chance to go over to a legend
in Florida. I mean, a guy that people, everyone looks up to
down there, named Fred Grunwald. And I tell you why
he's always a trip to go visit.
- This lizard that was living at my house
and his name was The Homie, but it's a girl.
So, The Homie is the girl.
- She sat under that lamp yesterday at 108 degrees, all day.
- Really?
- She looks great.
- Wow.
- That's impressive.
(indistinct)
- Yeah. I think it looks good on it.
It's an accessory. I think we should leave it.
- Whoa, Fred!
- Fred is a maniac.
- I think he's still got it.
- Oh my God. That's a beauty.
- What's his little name?
- Fred.
- This is Fred?
- He was given to me as a Fred.
- That's awesome. That's a beauty right there.
- It's right here.
Not doing a thing.
There you are.
- This is the second time I've been down here.
And again, it's only in Florida that you have a backyard
like this. I mean, literally, it's just a backyard full of
crazy cool animals. I mean, it's the one reason why
I wouldn't mind moving down to Florida to eventually have
this in my back yard. How cool is that?
- Their motto really in Florida to be more like Fred.
- Be more like Fred.
- Ooh.
- That was nice.
- It's a water snake.
- Chilling out back here, huh, Fred?
That's awesome. That's cool as can be.
- So again, Fred is a legend down here in Florida
and it's so nice of him to let us come by and just kind of
check out all his animals and it's definitely
(indistinguishable).
There's a saying in Florida for reptile keepers,
that everyone wants to be more like Fred.
And I tell you what, although I'm not from Florida,
I definitely hope that I'm more like Fred all the time.
Cause you can see that guy has a passion for this
for the last, you know, 50 plus years
which is pretty impressive. You guys know the movement.
The movement that is all about the rep hell hobby.
And of course that is reptilearmy.com.
We have new collections that have already dropped
this last month. We have another collection that's going to
be dropping in the next two to three weeks.
So make sure you go to reptilearmy.com.
There's always going to be something there for you guys.
We're always going to be updating and getting new stuff
so go to retilearmy.com. Join the army, become our
foot soldier. And again, 10% of the proceeds go to USR.
The rest of the proceeds go to conservation and education.
It seems like it's been forever since we pulled a clutch.
This happens to be an Amber cop wild land milk snake.
And this is actually her second clutch.
Of course, Laura has been pulling lots of clutches
when we've been gone. But look at how beautiful
that snake is. That's the last one of the year
for this girl. So she is done. We'll go ahead and get her
beefed up, get her ready for brumation
and something like that. Let's see how many eggs we got.
Oh, yeah, I love it. You know, when you see a good second
clutch without any infertile eggs and it seems to be
pretty good numbers, it just makes you so happy. And again
this is the first clutch I pulled in over two weeks.
I mean, it's crazy for this time of year.
I've never actually went on a trip during this time of year
cause I don't want to miss the pooling of eggs. So it was
awesome. You know, it's really cool.
So two, four, six beautiful eggs. By the way, I love
being back here. There's no doubt about it.
And then getting back to the trip, we actually had
a really interesting experience. Really cool place.
Never thought a place like this would exist.
You guys know what a kinkajou is, right?
It's a cool little like kind of mongoosey type animal.
Well, there's actually a place in Florida called KinkaTopia
and it's actually the only kinkajou sanctuary on the planet
and we got invited to go down.
It was just one of the most interesting experiences
I've ever had. Not only were the kinkajous cool
but they had a bunch of cool venomous snakes, too
and a Gila monster. So it was just an awesome experience.
So let's just go ahead and show you what it was like.
Before we actually go out and look at the kinkajous,
we actually got a chance to come into the reptile room
and see something really amazing. We've got Cape Cobras
over here. I mean, there's snouted cobras over here.
We've got spectacle cobras. We've got, of course,
Gabby's down below over here.
I mean there's all kinds of stuff. I mean, it's really good.
And we're going to actually get an opportunity to take
a look at the Gila monster. We've seen a lot of
venomous animals on this trip, but we haven't had
a Gila out. So let's go ahead and check out a Gila.
Look at this guys. Of course, this is a beautiful
Gila monster. Absolutely wonderful animals.
And you know, these guys do have some kind of nasty venom
in the sense that is not going to kill you typically.
I think the only deaths that have ever occurred have been
like children in the past. The truth is, it's just kind of
a real painful bite, right? But they have
really powerful jaws. And when they do bite, they typically
really sink in and won't let go.
And that's the problem. It just kind of pumps that venom
into you and you have a lot of issues with like pain
and swelling and, and ultimately like, you know,
blood pressure drops and stuff like that.
Oftentimes you'll pass out.
It's definitely not a pleasant thing to get bit by.
But the truth is that most Gilas are actually pretty docile.
I don't expect you should be free handling it
without caution. You can see the way I'm holding it
right now. It really can't bite me, right?
So this is a great way to do it where they're feeling good.
And you can see they'll hang on to you and stuff like that.
Absolutely wonderful venomous lizards from the Southwest
part of this country. Absolutely amazing.
I tell you what, all Gila Derma are incredible,
but this one has a beauty to it.
All those pinks and unbelievable articulated patterns.
This is a beautiful animal. So happy that we finally
got a chance to handle a Gila on this trip.
- Hannah is like the star. She is the viral sensation.
Like, she is the Tik-Tok queen. What it is, we're going to
be building a cage for her outside because she does better
on her own.
- I've never seen kinkajous move so fast.
This is crazy. I always thought they were super slow.
- You've got to come out and say, Hi.
- This is crazy. This is wild.
- Oh yeah. And try something again, very impressed.
You guys must have very good energy because they're
literally all gravitating. So, Trashcan, like I said,
she was found in a dumpster in Jupiter and she was rehabbed
at a local wildlife sanctuary.
And then she came here permanently.
Now she's our most social kink. So Trashcan's an ambassador.
- And she's famous, right?
- She is. She is famous for the trash talk on Tik-Tok.
So she's gone viral and has helped us build a kinkatopia
army on Tik-Tok. So they are her loyal subjects.
- Oh my God. Look at the tail.
- Yes. There's a good boy.
Thinks he's a very good boy.
- Good boy.
- Oh my God
- Oh, right into that hairdo.
- I didn't even know these existed.
I've heard the name and I didn't want to Google it.
I wanted to be surprised.
They're cute as could be, aren't they?
So happy that I just get to cuddle, a little crazy
little kinkajou. You want the gummy?
- I think he loves you.
- Do you love me?
- Get that ear.
- I have some more cleaning to do.
- Really something special, but she will.
(crosstalk)
- Oh, that's awesome.
- Nice mustache, Bri.
- I know. I like it.
- You're copying my style. What are you doing?
- I look like Noah.
- This is crazy, right?
- I never even knew these existed.
- They're pretty cool.
They are so cool, aren't they?
- Yeah. They're like.
- Should I get one?
- I don't know. One kind of bit me.
- It's okay. Don't worry about it.
- He'll be good. He'll be good. Look at it.
- It's like a little bear.
- They should call them honey bears.
- Honey bear. I've seen it.
- So obviously the backyard is where all of the rescued
Kinkajous are. There's the little air inside.
And then the majority of them are back out here.
And these are all again just rescues that are.
It's pretty amazing. I mean, to think that they have
a passion and a calling to help these animals.
It's pretty inspiring. And I know Noah's fallen in love
with them, for sure. He didn't realize he's never seen
them before. And he's like, Oh my God.
They're like little bears. They're absolutely incredible.
Of course, sometimes they even call them honey bears.
So, the fact is, is that they're pretty cool.
And it's awesome to see a place like this.
This is where true passion is. So, if you have a passion
follow your dream because literally anything is possible.
And this just shows you how awesome it can be if you follow
those dreams. Well, that wraps up. The Florida trip
is officially in the can now. I hope that you guys enjoyed
this little extra little interludes while we were gone
and stuff like that. It was a great time, but it is so,
so good to be back. If you enjoyed this video and you enjoy
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