- [Brian] Where you going, sweetheart?
What're you doing?
Oh my gosh, is he so cool.
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- Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Today, it's mine and Lori's anniversary.
- [Brian] Happy anniversary, Lori.
- [Both] (chuckle)
- Why thank you.
- [Brian] Do you like them?
- I love them.
- [Brian] I would give you a kiss,
but I'm sick, so I'll just give you a hug.
- (laughs) Okay. Thank you.
- [Brian] I don't want to get you sick.
- Yeah, don't give me that gift, please.
Aww, thank you so much. I love them.
- So I kinda thinking today that it might be a
good day to just let all my animals loose.
Well, not all of them loose,
but give them a little bit of freedom.
You know we always let Elvis, the monitor, run around.
I figure maybe I'll take Daisy out, we'll take a few
other animals out and run around.
What do you guys think?
Let's start with Daisy.
I used to let Daisy out to kinda wander in the dungeon
quite a bit, and then even sometimes bring her upstairs
where she couldn't get herself in trouble
and wander around there.
Now that she has such a huge cage, I mean, even though
she looks really big, look at how big her cage is.
She certainly doesn't need that kind of stretching out,
so I really haven't had her out as far as just
wandering around the reptarium, other than when
people are here to actually look at her.
So, let's just go ahead and take her out.
We'll let her roam around,
see what she does for a little bit.
I have no idea, you know.
She's not a super energetic animal to begin with,
to be honest with you but hey, let's pull her out.
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- And you have to be careful when you're pulling out a big
snake to never let them kinda fold over on each other.
They're so heavy, that they can actually injure
their self if you're not careful.
So, you have to be a little bit thoughtful
when you're actually pulling her out.
She seems to actually be liking hanging out right now.
Where you going, sweetheart?
What are you doing?
She is such an amazing snake.
Look at how gorgeous she is.
And again, it's just really cool to have a snake
that's literally this big and this long
and so docile that you never have to worry about anything.
What's up, girl?
What are you doing?
You having a good time?
And again, you know, she's not a real energetic animal.
If I had Lucy out like this, she'd already be over there
by the back door, just cruising cruising.
But Daisy doesn't move around a lot.
That's one of the things that nice, when you can pull her
out when people are out, even kids.
Because you can actually pick her up, kinda move her around,
do whatever you want with her,
and she doesn't move very much.
You can see, she's a pretty chill animal,
and she's just absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, this is the snake that I think is really
cool to pull out when the opportunity is right.
When there is a ton of people here,
we don't pull Daisy out just because, listen,
she's still a nineteen foot snake.
But when there's twenty or thirty people,
we can actually pull her out, everyone can hold her,
we can get five or six people and take pictures with her
draped across all of them.
So, it's really a great ambassador animal to kinda
show how gentle big snakes can actually be.
Gosh, she's so gorgeous, look at her.
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- And this is the one thing that's really been
kinda tripping me out, to be totally honest with you.
I can not tell you how many of my animals I let out
and they literally crawl right back into their cage.
I mean, you saw, Daisy was all the way down there,
she crawled all the way back, right up back into her cage.
I think that's a great sign that they must be really happy.
I mean, Taz does it all the time.
I have him out, he crawls around a little bit,
and then he crawls right back.
When I feed him outside of the cage,
he crawls right back into his cage.
So many of my animals actually do that,
and that just makes me so happy.
Because in all honesty, when I kept them in the
racking system, they seem like they never wanted
to go back in their cage.
Now they literally go back on their own,
how freaking awesome is that.
Next up, I'm gunna go ahead and let Elvis go out for a run.
Now, we do this all the time, to be honest with you.
We like to, at least once a day, sometimes twice a day,
just let him kinda run around the shop.
But now, he looks absolutely amazing because Andrea
kinda gave him a nice clean up today.
Look at how beautiful he looks.
Elvis, you okay bud?
You okay?
Good boy.
Good boy, you wanna come out?
You wanna come out?
Come on.
There you go.
There you go, bud.
And for those of you who haven't been following,
he's an Asian Water Monitor.
These guys are from the Indonesia area and are really cool.
I've actually chased these guys around, believe it or not,
on a golf course of all things.
But one of the things I'm going to try to do today,
I have no idea if it'll work.
I bought this harness here, I actually got it for
Phoebe so Lori could let Phoebe run around with it,
but I think if we could put this on Elvis,
it might be really cool to see his perspective
of running around the shop.
Again, I have no idea if it's gunna work or not.
But you can see how curious he is.
I mean, what an awesome animal.
He's not afraid, he's not timid, anything.
He's just kinda walking around, you can see, he'll come up,
he'll smell me, he's just such an awesome animal.
And the more that he's around people,
the better he's even getting.
Look at how amazing that is.
Oh my gosh is he so cool.
And again, Andrea cleaned him up,
he looks absolutely gorgeous now.
Kinda got all that, just you know,
sometimes monitors get stuck shed on them
and stuff like that.
Oh my gosh, Elvis, you're beautiful.
Okay, what do you say we try to put this
harness on and see what we can do.
Again, no clue if this is gunna work.
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Decided to abandon the harness because,
honestly, I don't want Elvis to get stressed out.
He definitely didn't seem like he liked it that much,
so rather than try to force it on him,
I just decided you know what, let's just go ahead
and follow him around with the camera,
see where he wants to go.
What are you looking at, buddy?
Is that Daisy up there?
Is that Daisy?
And that's the thing that's so amazing,
is that he's so curious.
And actually this is kinda interesting.
Daisy is looking this way, and Elvis is looking that way.
What are you looking at, Elvis?
What are you smelling?
Oh, Elvis, you're so funny.
(laughs softly)
That's so funny.
Look at those two, looking at each other.
Again, I think that's what's so interesting about Elvis,
and monitors in particular, just how intelligent they are.
They're just kinda looking around,
trying to figure everything out.
I'm not exactly sure what he's thinking he's gunna do
if he gets inside Daisy's cage, cause I have a feeling
Daisy would come out on top of that fight, but I think
he just wants to come in there and
climb around and stuff like that, to be honest with you.
Regardless, as you can see,
Elvis is a pretty amazing animal.
I'm so happy that Kevin over at Nerd allowed me to get him,
because he is so cool, I mean, so much fun.
What an amazing, amazing animal.
And you're so silly, buddy.
What are you doing?
Let's take a quick break from releasing everything
at the reptarium, and go ahead and
feed the new mota mota turtles.
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Well, since it didn't work to put the harness on Elvis,
I thought maybe we would try it on Taz.
He's certainly a lot more mellow,
doesn't seem to be as upset, but if it doesn't work for Taz,
that's completely fine.
Again, I'll never stress out my animals
just for entertainment purposes, but it's something that's
cool, we'll do our best we can do.
So let's give it a shot with Tazzy.
Again, I'll put it on him, if he seems stressed out,
I'll take it right off and then
we'll just follow him around.
Regardless, I love the fact that we can let our animals
kinda explore the place a little bit.
A lot of these guys do it all the time anyways because they
come out while we're open and even on the off days,
we let them out to kinda roam around.
So let's see if we can get Tazzy.
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You know what, guys.
There is just no way that this is gunna work.
I mean, as much as I think it would be really cool
to get that perspective shot,
I just can't stress the animals out.
I'm just kinda letting him crawl through,
but as soon as he crawls through,
he kinda starts to get a little bit antsy.
So, I'm just gunna let him crawl right on through
and we're just gunna leave him out for a little bit.
Again, it was a really cool idea, and all in all,
the real purpose for this harness
is actually for the dogs, anyways.
So Zeusy and Phoebe can actually use it and
they'll be completely fine.
Looks like no point of view shots for you, Tazzy.
Are you okay, buddy?
You're not mad at me, are you?
Are you okay?
You aren't mad at me, are you Tazzy?
And again, you know, Taz is another one
of those animals that's just so chill.
As you can see, he just kinda hangs out here.
It's just great when kids come to the reptarium to get a
chance to pet and kinda interact with a lizard that's pretty
big and, you know, he's going to get even larger.
But it's kinda cool just to hang out with him.
Again, he doesn't do a whole lot,
he's not nearly as energetic as Elvis is,
but at the same time he's super cool
and he's got a great personality.
Right, Taz?
Right, buddy?
Well, it isn't quite high excitement
when you're hanging out with Taz.
This is pretty much all he does.
But that's what makes him so incredible, right buddy.
Alright, what do you think about trying to let Nova out?
I have no idea, I've never let Nova out before.
Might be kinda interesting.
Let's give that a shot.
Like I mentioned, when it comes to Nova,
I have no idea how he's going to react.
He might just sit here, he might run,
he might do anything.
He loves his cage, and even when I take him out,
he usually jumps right back in his cage.
So, I don't think he needs to run around or anything,
but it might be kinda interesting just to see what he does.
What do you say, Nova, do you want to come out?
Oh, come on, don't be a silly monkey.
Okay, so here we go.
Nova, you want to go?
What do you want to do?
Nova, what do you want to do, bud?
Oh, jeeze.
Nova, where you going, buddy?
Do you not like it outside?
Oh, my gosh.
Nova, it's okay.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
It's okay. It's okay.
Like I mentioned, it doesn't seem like Nova likes it outside
I think he likes his cage.
I'll just go ahead and put him back.
You wanna go back in, bud?
There you go.
There you go, sweetheart.
Again, I never want to stress the animals out.
I'm just kinda messing around a little bit
and seeing if they want to run around.
If they want to run around, I thought, you know,
if Nova wanted to run around and climb a tree
or something like that, I think it would be awesome.
I would totally let him, but it seemed
like he was just kinda stressed out.
He was just trying to get away.
I don't want that to happen with these animals.
So cute, oh my gosh.
I love when he runs like that,
but we have a really amazing bond.
One of the things about the reptarium that's really cool
is that, you know, we're starting to get this kind of
relationship between the animals.
They know where their safe area is,
where I won't touch them.
If they get to an area like,
if Nova goes way up there at the top, I'm done.
I will not take him out.
He knows that, so that's kinda his safe area.
Same thing with Bella.
She goes into a specific area where if she goes there,
she knows that I'm not going to take her out,
I'm not going to pet her, I'm going to leave her alone.
We're trying to kinda create that kind of relationship
with these animals so that they know
when they're willing to come out,
and willing to experience that, we let them do it,
but if not, we just leave them alone.
Right, Nova?
You're okay, buddy.
It's alright, buddy.
With the fail of Elvis and then Taz with the harness,
I know one animal that doesn't mind having a camera on it.
You guys know this, it's gunna be Speedy-cam, that's right.
We'll go ahead and tape a go-pro on Speedy,
and while we're at it, we may as well
tape a camera on Sabby next door.
We'll let them run around for a little while,
and get their point of view.
That's always a lot of fun.
And there are times where I'll let Speedy just out
in the crowd when it's open at the reptarium.
It's really funny because people
are like 'is that a tortoise?'.
So let's go ahead and get Speedy-cam going.
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And that concludes the
'let my animals out in the reptarium' part of this vlog.
We actually have a pretty special event tonight.
We want the reptarium to be kind of a really cool
place for all kinds of people.
We realize a bunch of people with Autism have
an issue with sensory and overload, and when we're open
to the public, there's just too much going on.
So, tonight we have a special needs night
or a sensory safe type night.
We only sold eight spots, so that's all that's
coming in tonight so that they don't have to be
overwhelmed with too many people.
We're going to do some individual things,
let them get close to the animals and
let them kind of enjoy themselves.
We want to continue to do all kinds of things like this.
If you have any ideas like this for us, please comment down
below, because we want to accommodate everyone.
We want everyone to enjoy these animals as much as possible.
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Just wrapping up the special event.
I think it went really well, I think I was really happy.
It was cool to have kind of a smaller group.
The kids were really cool, really into it,
so this was absolutely awesome.
But, of course, like I mentioned, it is our anniversary,
so we're about to go out for an anniversary dinner
and we're not taking you guys along.
- Nope.
(both laugh)
- I'm gunna go ahead and end the vlog here.
Thank you guys as always, for all your support.
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