- I walk away and guess what, I never close the cage.
Seeing if there's any chance that it's
underneath anything at all.
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Good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
I hope that the start of your day
is going better than the start of my day,
because I have a disaster that is completely my fault.
You may remember yesterday I was talking about
Ben and Jerry and how he had a good poop.
But I am super excited to see that this
is the very first perfect snake poop that Ben and Jerry
have done in the last couple weeks.
It's not loose and runny anymore,
it looks like a normal snake poop.
Well then, obviously this happened.
And here you can see I'm walking over in the surveillance
and I'm starting to actually do the piece
about Ben and Jerry, and then you'll notice after I'm done
I go in there and I actually take out the poop.
I walk away, and guess what?
I never close the cage.
So there's the surveillance footage.
I was hoping we could actually have the footage
that you could look at on the thing,
but we couldn't figure out how to record it.
So, regardless, that's what happened.
That's right, literally, I didn't shut the cage.
We have a protocol here at the zoo, that before we leave
we go around and check every single cage,
make sure the locks are-- I was here alone.
I'm gonna be totally honest with you, not that I'm
making up an excuse, but I have been really mentally taxed,
I mean, day after day of long long days,
have just kind of gotten to me a little bit,
that was a mistake I can't believe I made.
Sure enough, came in this morning, Andrea immediately
came over and said, "Where's Ben and Jerry?"
We realized that the cage was open, Lori is continuing
to check the surveillance to see if there is any way
she can see where it might have crawled.
Much like when we had Potato, we actually found Potato
by the surveillance, so hopefully Lori's going to find
something in the meantime we're just gonna be looking
and tearing this place apart.
I tell you what, there's so many places in here it can hide
as Lori's checking the surveillance.
I'm just looking everywhere, Andrea's looking everywhere.
We're all just looking everywhere, seeing if there's like
any chance that it's underneath anything at all.
I can't believe I did this, I mean, this is such a mess up.
Of all animals to let out, a two-headed snake,
I mean come on, I can't believe I did this.
I know it's in this building somewhere,
I just hope we can find it.
I am so stressed out right now.
Literally, Andrea is looking everywhere, I just don't know.
I mean, you wouldn't think a snake like this would really
hide in a place where you couldn't find it, I mean
it's not like this place is that big, and everything is
pretty closed off, I thought for sure when I came over here
that within 10 or 15 minutes we'd find it, but...
I left here late afternoon yesterday,
and I was the only one here.
We could see on the surveillance that it was definitely
moving around, until basically it got dark.
Unfortunately the surveillance, although it's IR,
you can't really see much, so Lori's still trying
to scour through to see, and then, it could have been out
for as many as 10 or 12 hours, so it could definitely
make up some ground, but, I'm still looking around.
I don't understand where it could go.
It doesn't seem like, I mean, it is a two-headed snake,
so it's not like it's agile, it's not going to climb up
and get lost, whooh, I tell you what guys, I'm messed up.
Yes?
(woman asks question off camera)
Definitely freaking out.
It's gotta be here.
Was this door open here?
- I don't remember.
- Whoa! You see it?
Oh my gosh, there he is.
Oh my gosh, holy cow, what in the world? Ben and Jerry!
Oh my gosh.
Oh, my God, you can't even understand.
Oh my God, thank you, I swear to God,
I'm going to church, Beth, I'm going to church.
- [Beth] I'm going with you, get in the car, I'll drive.
- Oh my gosh, Ben and Jerry, you silly monkeys.
I swear to gosh, guys, I was freaking out, I mean,
these guys have been looking, we've been looking.
(sigh)
My gosh, what a complete, utter mess.
I mean, my heart rate, when I saw it,
Oh my God, I don't even know guys, I hate to even share this
with you guys because this was a horrible horrible mistake
on my part, you know?
I tell you, you just can never... keeping animals,
and especially at a zoo like this,
you can't leave cages open.
I'm getting Ben and Jerry right back in, right now.
Oh my gosh, you just can't make that mistake, guys.
It's totally un-me, I'm so mad at myself, that was just
a couple of hours of unbelievable stress.
Cause I was just thinking, what if it got underneath
something that we can't get to?
It's not a big snake, I mean, these guys can definitely hide
in almost anywhere, any nook and crevice,
I can't even believe we found it.
I'm gonna be honest with you, I was trying
to stay optimistic, but the more we looked, the more I went
to the places I thought the best option for them to be
and they weren't there, the more I thought, there's no way.
So this animal somehow crawled out of here, probably crawled
down here, crawled all the way over here, all the way
over here, who knows where it was going through here,
must have climbed underneath this door right here
cause there's an area, and then ultimately climbed back
here in the back behind the sink.
Oh my gosh, guys, I tell you what.
I need a break, I need to take like, I need to take like
a half hour or something like that and just decompress.
Cause I am freaking out.
But I didn't think this video was going to end well,
so thank God, we found Ben and Jerry.
All right, I'm gonna take a little time guys,
I'll see you in a minute.
Okay, I'm back, I still feel a little bit queasy,
I'm not gonna lie to ya.
Do me a favor, down in the comments, let me know what
your biggest screw-up was, I mean, what did you do that
you were like, I can not believe I made that mistake.
Because certainly I just don't let animals out like that,
and I am so glad that Ben and Jerry are doing good.
This sec-- it's just one of 'em, where's the other one?
He's under there.
So I'm happy he's here, regardless, back to the day,
back to some positivity, hopefully the rest of the day
is gonna be awesome, I mean, listen, I think we got
the worst part of the day behind us, right?
So, let's make the rest of the day great together.
I could not be more happy with the way Matilda here
is doing, I mean, look at her, she just loves it,
she just perks up, she stands up real tall,
sticks her neck out for pets, look at that
little dirty face, too, such a little monster,
I absolutely love it, but I tell you what, she has come
a long way, just in the handful of time that we've had her.
My buddy Jeff actually came to visit her,
about a week and a half ago or so, and as soon as he
jumped in with her she did this exact thing.
Just perked up, stood up really high, wanted to get pets,
so we were like, Oh my God, she really does do that,
and slowly but surely she's been doing it for Lori.
Now she's been doing it for me too.
She is such a good girl, she loves her pets.
She's becoming so social, I tell you what,
this animal is one of the craziest things I've ever had,
I love it, I mean look at this thing,
it's like a prehistoric monster right here,
and she just loves her pets.
I tell you what, I am so in love with this animal.
We are changing the name of BHB Reptiles
to Children's Python Production House.
It seems like all we're producing is children's pythons.
Another clutch of children's pythons; this is crazy.
No spotteds, no Stimson's, no ball pythons yet.
But we have lots of stuff coming, don't you worry.
Let's go ahead and see what she's got going on.
It's crazy, I mean, we literally had like
70 children's python eggs already,
and we're still producing, I mean it's crazy.
Look at another beautiful clutch, she's coiled around
like you can't believe, look at those pearly whites.
Again, these are bigger ones, it's interesting because
the last clutch I pulled was actually a little bit smaller
and it was like 16, 17 eggs, and then we pulled a clutch
that was a little bit smaller, like this one right here,
it looks like we've got one little slugger right down here
on the bottom, but these are again, big big eggs.
And it's so weird how they can be the exact same animal
and have large eggs, smaller amounts, or smaller eggs,
more amounts, just crazy.
And again, she looks really good, doesn't even hardly
look like she laid, so how many eggs we got there?
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
and there's nine on the bottom.
- Nine total eggs, so again, that puts us up to close to
80 children's python eggs, we've only got one more
children's to lay, so we're not going to hit
the hundred mark this year, but we're gonna get really close
to that hundred mark and then again Stimson's and spotteds
are coming, ball pythons are coming, so again, Kelsey,
you killed it down here, thank you so much.
- No problem.
- For those of you that remembered, I got all those little
baby veiled chameleons about two and a half months ago or so
They were just little tiny guys just about
a month and a half or two months old, and we put them all
of course up front here, there were 16 total babies,
we've given two of them away already, the rest of them
are going to be gone in about a week, week and a half,
or something like that.
But this experiment went really well, I mean, it was so cool
that little kids, especially ones that were a little bit
afraid of handing lizards, would come in and be able
to handle these guys, not to mention when we had 16 of em,
in a case like this, they hide tremendously,
and kids had a great time trying to actually find them.
So I love the way this went, and just for the record,
we went ahead and just re-homed all these for free,
we didn't make any money on them at all,
but because it went so well, I think I'm gonna go ahead
and buy another 12 or 15 babies as soon as these guys
all get re-homed, and that way I can do the same thing.
So every maybe two and half or three months,
we'll have a bunch of these guys ready to go,
so if it's something you're interested in a few months
and you want a veiled chameleon, as long as you can prove
that you're gonna have a good setup, we're just gonna keep
re-homing these guys for free.
I think it's just a really cool addition to the zoo.
Dude, did you hear that I let Ben and Jerry out today?
I mean, what a bonehead, I tell you, that was one
of the worst mistakes I've made, I just never let things out
and for it to be a two-headed snake--
Thankfully, everything worked out, but I'm still
kind of sick to my stomach about it.
What was your biggest mistake?
I know you've got plenty.
- I've got a lot.
- I shouldn't say that.
- From this week or last week?
No, I'm just kidding.
- No, what did you do that you were like,
how would I even do that?
- Dude, I was a little kid, this will stick with me forever,
this still haunts me to this day, OK?
My cousin Brad, I was literally probably 7 years old
and I remember this like it happened yesterday.
Had some pet bullfrogs, he told me not to play with them,
I played with them, let one out, and then a few hours later
he pulls me behind the bush, he said
"Look what happened cause you let that frog out."
Just say the cat got ahold of it, it wasn't pretty.
Was that messed up? He's like, "Look what you did, Eric.
The cat got it." - My gosh.
- I was so upset, I was so upset.
- Oh my gosh, you're a murderer.
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
What if it got into the tortoises, and the tortoises ate it?
Or the alligator tank and the alligator, or Bowser?
I mean what if it got into Bowser's tank and Bowser ate it?
Trust me, I was thinking, what if we don't find this animal?
We may never know.
- Yeah, that's really scary.
- I mean, cause Bowser's right there, so I know.
- No, Bowser is right there too, I didn't even think
about that, he's literally right on the other edge.
- I know, that thing could have climbed out,
went in that water, but I don't know,
I don't even want to think about it, it doesn't matter.
It's done, but at least we found them,
they're completely fine, it's OK, I absolve you from
the murder of the frog when you were seven years old.
- Thank you.
- You're all set.
- Haunts me.
(laughing)
- I'm so excited for so many things this year,
when it comes to colubrids and like I've been mentioning,
we have our first female that's due to lay eggs any day
so it's gonna be super excited.
But I absolutely love this little dude here.
He's of course an adult male leucistic scale-less
Texas rat snake and I would say
he's such a bizarre-looking animal.
We're gonna have a bunch of really cool scale-less
Texas rats and of course corn snakes this year.
But I'm super excited that this year we should produce
some more of these scale-less Texas rat snakes.
Every year we always produce just like one or two of them,
but not very many, this year we have a handful more females
up to size, so with any luck we'll have maybe a dozen or so
of these crazy, weird-looking, alien-like animals.
I mean, how awesome is this little dude?
Ten minutes since we've opened a couple things,
we've got this alphatechpet.com thing.
I don't know what this is.
- I don't either.
- Well let's open it and see.
OK, so that's that, first we have in here is skunk away.
- I hope we don't need that.
- I'm not sure, but hey, whatever, it's a good thing.
So this is actually from-- Hi, Lori, Brian, and the team,
hope all is well with you, my name is Amy, red lips and heel
on youtube, and I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
I wanted to send you a few things from my work,
I guess she actually works there, and that I think
could come in very useful to you BHB the reptarub,
and at home with Phoebe.
I work for aplha tech pet and the other owner
has been a vet for over 30 years, so regardless,
thank you so much, thanks again for being
positive role-model, you lift my spirit, so thank you, Amy.
So what do we have here?
- Looks like maybe cleaners.
- So cleaners, we have odor pet bio-active, which is cool.
We have laundra-pet.
We've got instant urine remover.
We've got kennel-sol, this is actually pretty cool though,
especially over at the reptarium,
when something poops on the ground,
cause that happens, like Elvis sometimes is out, he'll poop.
So these odor removers will be really good, especially--
We had a birthday party a couple days ago
and Taz pooped right in front of all the people
and it did stink, so anyways, thank you for all of the stuff
from aplhatechpet.com, so thank you, well, that's awesome.
I will definitely put a link in the description
if you guys ever get skunked you can have a skunk remover.
OK, one more package I'm gonna open up really quick.
No idea what this is but I like that you guys send me stuff.
So it is awesome, I really do appreciate it.
And we always put the address in the description
if you guys are ever in need of sending stuff.
Ooh, wait a second, I wish Noah was here,
he's actually out sick today, it says, let's see.
"To Brian and the Barczyk family, BHB crew, my name is--
I spent the Nama Jumer at Move House College
in Pasadena, California."
I actually got your email, this is,
I know exactly what this is, this is awesome.
Regardless, thank you for the support.
I remember getting your email, and I told you, I said,
you don't have to do that, that would be way too much,
but I do appreciate it.
Look at this: Anyone who knows shoes knows what that is,
of course, jump man 23 over here, of course these are
some Nikes, and these just dropped this last weekend.
These are the low-top air Jordan snakeskins.
What do you think?
- Wow.
- Oh my gosh.
That is so dope!
This is the first time anyone's ever sent me shoes!
So thank you, I love them, they are absolutely incredible.
I wish Noah was here to actually open them with me,
but I'll take them home maybe it'll help him feeling better
because he has like a stomach flu or something like that.
So thank you so much.
So there it is, what do you think Lauren, what do you like?
Do you like these or no?
- Um, yeah, they're OK.
(laughs)
- Well that's a better reaction than she usually gives me.
- They're not sweater shoes.
- No, I like 'em . I can't wait to wear these guys.
- I think Noah will like them, cause he's a big Jordan guy.
- Noah loves Jordans, and I love snakes.
- It's kinda cool, yeah.
- Yeah, so snakeskin, so thank you so much,
you are absolutely incredible again,
everyone that sends us stuff, I can't appreciate it enough.
So there's your unboxing for the day.
Well, Ben and Jerry are still in their cages,
I'm gonna go through and make sure everything is locked.
I wanna be totally honest with you, I'm mentally drained
from losing that animal like that.
That's just a mistake I can't make, and it really was
taxing on me, thinking Oh my Gosh, what if something serious
were to happen, it would have been my fault.
I don't know if I could have forgiven myself,
that was a huge mistake,
I'm gonna be very much more careful in the future.
Again, let me know in the comments if you had things
like this happen, make me feel better about myself.
We're shutting the vlog down,
wishing you guys an amazing day.
Thank you as always, you guys are truly amazing.
Do me a favor and be kind to someone today
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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