- Here comes the turkey.
Oh my gosh.
- Oh my God.
No, you are not getting a turkey.
- This is Benny the turkey, look at this turkey.
Hey good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
We're here at the Reptarium and we're actually
getting the day started with a birthday party,
it's actually twins that just turned five today
so we're having a good time with them.
THey're just wrapping up kind of the pizza and cake
and opening up gifts and then we're gonna play
with animals for a little bit, it's going to be an amazing
day, open here later on tonight.
Have a pet turkey coming tonight.
That's right, you heard it here.
A pet turkey is coming to the Reptarium where
people can take a picture for Thanksgiving.
I know it's crazy but it's gonna be absolutely epic.
- [Lady] Not straight down, look see how they're doing it.
Just hold the whole piece out.
(kids chattering)
- [Brian] First time that you've ever held a snake?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, you have Purdida, my girl,
how do you like it?
- Good.
- You are doing so good, I'm so proud of you.
Just wrapping up the birthday party.
It was so cute, I mean they're twin five year olds,
a boy and a girl and they just absolutely love
the animals and some of their friends came in,
they quite frankly were a little bit afraid of things,
by the end some of the ones that were the most afraid
were holding snakes, I love this, this is so much fun.
Lucy's babies are so absolutely adorable.
Take a look at this tiger citron here
and I'm trying to pick out one more
female just to raise up.
I can't let all of em go, got a raise one up
and I'm thinking this might be one right here.
It's absolutely gorgeous, this is actually F05
so I need your guys's help, this is F05.
I'm gonna show you another one and I want to
decide between the two and I'm gonna have you guys
help me and this is the other one,
this is actually F03.
I think this one has a kind of a neater kind of
stripe to it but I think they're absolutely both
incredible so again, F03 right here or F05 right here.
Let me know down in the comments which one you
think I should raise up.
I'll just keep one and just raise it on up.
By the way they're all so tame and so amazing.
They didn't take their momma's personality at all.
I haven't been bit by one of em.
Look at the eyes on those things though, oh my gosh,
they're all doing amazing, I love em to death.
I don't know how many times I've said this
but you have to be a jack of all trades
when you run a business.
It's not just about working with cool animals you know,
have a leaky faucet, went and bought a faucet,
gotta replace the faucet.
I can call a plumber and spend 200 dollars
or I can do it myself.
So it may seem mundane but hey, part of what I have to do.
(light music)
And there you go, no more leaks.
Just all part of the daily thing.
So the idea would be to by early December,
starting to put males and female ball pythons together
so we are right around the corner.
I've gotta get all the breeding schemes together,
which means I have to inventory all the females,
all the males and then decide what males
and which females go together.
We have some amazing stuff.
Look at this pastel leopard clown, oh doggy,
that thing's gonna be so amazing,
cannot wait to produce some of this stuff.
This girl is right on the cusp of breeding
so hopefully we can get a little more size to her
but this is actually an enche pistabi which
is a pastel mohabi that's het for clown,
oh my God, if we take this to I don't know,
maybe a batman male or something like that,
oh my gosh, we could produce some really insane clown
stuff this year.
Now that we're getting closer to the 2019 breeding season,
I'm starting to get pretty excited.
It stinks that we're basically done hatching for the 2018
but hey, you gotta start looking forward to the next
year's batch.
And speaking about 2018 babies, take a look at that
thing right there, oh my gosh, that thing is freaking
on fire, this is just a banana enche spider
or a banana stinger bee but oh my gosh,
that is one of the nicest ones I've ever seen,
oh my gosh.
I always get asked about my boas so I figured
I'd give ya a really quick update on boas.
This is actually the Giana redtail boas that we got
last year that are raising up.
They're getting nice and big and unbelievably beautiful.
Again, Giana's actually get more kind of that lavender
hue to em as they get older, oh my God,
this thing is gonna be so incredible
when it's six or seven foot long.
Then talking about incredible, look at the tail
on this thing right here, oh my God, of course
this is one of the female Sierenan boas I have
and look at the widow peak saddles, oh my gosh,
this thing is incredible.
They're doing really well.
With the red tail boas, we don't power feed em
because they're known to kind of have a little bit
of soft stomachs so if you feed em too big a meal,
it can sometimes be a problem so just slow and steady.
This girl will be big in no time.
And then this is that one Columbian boa that I got
about a week ago from my buddy, just really amazing,
I mean look at just the reduction of pattern.
Someone said that maybe it could be a jungle
but typically jungles will have a lot of striping on em
and not as reduction of pattern but it could be
some kind of hypo jungly thing.
It's certainly possible.
I'm not really sure what it is, regardless,
I think it's absolutely incredible and I'm definitely
gonna raise this one up and the sister that looks
pretty cool too and hopefully one day kind of prove out
whatever is going on here because it's absolutely amazing
so for you boa people out there, there's at least
a little small update of a few of my cool boas.
Just ready to open up the Reptarium for the night.
What do you say we head over there and see what's going on.
And we literally just opened up and already there's
a ton of people in here having a good time.
Bella's getting some pets.
(chattering)
That never gets old.
Hi guys, hi, how are you guys doing?
- Great, how are you?
- Good, really good, thank you for coming.
Oh got a tarantula over here.
- I'm afraid of spiders and I held that.
- [Brian] You held it?
- Yes I did.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's fantastic, congratulations.
- Did you get a picture?
- Yes.
Okay.
- [Brian] Is that the first big snake you've held?
- No.
- [Brian] Oh, you're a pro.
- Miami, probably when I was in my twenties.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, really?
- Only 55 years ago.
(laughing)
- Small crisis, I've told you guys before
that I get migraines well, sure enough, migraine hit,
I can't really see, I get like all this craziness
in my eyes so right now I can barely even see
the camera.
Laurie took over next door at the Reptarium,
I'm hoping I'm feeling better and don't get too sick
from this migraine because the turkeys coming and I wanna
make sure I'm there with the turkey so for now,
I'm gonna shut the lights off, take a break,
close my eyes and hope that this migraine
gets better in the next half hour or so.
- Brian obviously has a migraine and he's at the shop
trying to take care of that and I have to jump
over here to help out at the Reptarium
and holy crap, it is so busy here.
As you can see, the aisles are packed
and this is the least crowded aisle,
the aisle on the other side, I can barely get around
so we always love it when it's crowded
but yeah, it is definitely reaching
a very packed in max capacity
so hopefully he can push though and be better
real quick because we kinda need him here.
- Alright guys so a, still a lot of pain,
still not feeling really good but the turkey's
about to show up next door and I'm just gonna
try and brave my way though it, I mean it's not
gonna be easy but I can't miss this event so
let's go ahead and balk up and get over to the Reptarium.
So Laurie, how do you feel about this pet turkey coming in?
- Okay, wasn't my idea.
- I think it's a great idea.
Angela came, she's got the turkey.
- I'm not surprised that it was her turkey.
- I know.
I think this is the best idea I've had.
Are you guys excited about the turkey?
- Yeah.
- Yes, yes, turkey!
Yes, turkey.
Everyone is excited about the turkey
and Laurie thinks I'm crazy but it's
gonna be absolutely epic.
Here comes the turkey.
Oh my gosh.
You have to let it get by.
So cool.
Oh my gosh.
This thing is awesome.
Alright so everyone listen, everyone can take pictures
and we're gonna just do it kinda single file
so we don't go crazy, oh my God, that thing is crazy.
(laughing)
this is cooler than I even expected.
Oh my gosh.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Brian] Are you kidding me?
- Oh my God.
No, you are not getting a turkey.
- Let's get a turkey.
- That thing is huge.
- Oh my gosh, look at this turkey.
- Oh my God, Angela.
(laughing)
- He is the love of my life, this is my child.
- What's his name?
- Benny.
- This is Benny the turkey, look at this turkey.
- My goodness.
- Is this thing awesome or what?
- That is insane.
- My only warning is if you have nail polish on,
he does like to think oh shiny, it's food.
- Oh my, how old is this thing?
I thought it was a baby.
- He's about a year and a half old.
- That's it?
- You know when they're born in the spring,
they're pretty much full grown and ready
like for Thanksgiving.
- That head is ridiculous.
- Can we please get a turkey?
- No.
- [Brian] This thing is awesome.
- Absolutely not.
- Do you think we should get a turkey?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Yes, yes.
You think we should get a turkey?
Yes, see they think.
- What is this?
What is this little like.
- [Brian] I don't know what this is.
- Angela, what is this little hair coming out.
- They have a beard so that's his beard.
They eventually get really long I guess.
It's really strange.
- Oh my God, this is, this is, I'm like speechless,
this is awesome, I am so excited about this.
(chattering)
We've done some crazy things at the Reptarium
but Andrea, this is the craziest.
- This is amazing.
- This is amazing, it's the craziest thing we've done
and I absolutely love it.
(light music)
Angela's just giving Benny a little bit
of bread but Laurie.
- We're stuffing the turkey.
- Laurie literally said that she was
pre stuffing the turkey.
(laughing)
This is horrible.
- I thought it was funny.
- You're a terrible person, Laurie.
Look at how cool he eats.
Oh my gosh, I love the turkey.
Oh my gosh.
- He's like, I was hungry, okay?
- [Laurie] No kidding.
- That was an absolutely amazing night here
with the turkey, lots of people came out tonight,
it was super, super busy, it was absolutely fun
and a great way to get ready for Thanksgiving.
I am in love with that turkey but Laurie won't let
me get one which I don't understand.
Let me know in the comments if you think I should
get a pet turkey 'cause I certainly think I do
but as for now I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog
and just kinda enjoy the last hour or so here
as we're open at the Reptarium and wish you guys
an absolutely amazing day, evening, whenever you happen
to be watching.
As always, your support means the world to me
and I truly do love you guys so much.
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I will see you guys tomorrow.
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