- Hey, good morning everybody.
And welcome to the blog.
I hope to start, your day is incredible.
And I'm not just saying it.
I really, truly, hope your day is amazing.
You know today we're actually gonna try to feed Lucy,
my 20 foot Python.
She hasn't eaten in a couple months.
She's been a little bit finicky.
So, I thought out some smaller rabbits hoping that
that'll entice her.
So, what do you say for those,
you guys that like feeding giant snakes?
Let's go ahead to see if Lucy wants to eat for us.
Let's go ahead to see if Lucy wants to eat today.
Lucy.
I wish she wasn't in this corner when she's,
over here like she was last night.
She would've eaten for sure.
But she's over here,
and I've mentioned that she's been a little weird.
She hasn't eaten in the last couple of months,
and snakes go off food sometimes.
Especially during the cool down in the winter.
So, we'll see if Lucy wants to get something.
Lucy, come on bud, come on.
I'm just gonna read her kinda, motion,
right now she doesn't show any interest.
Usually if a snake is interested,
as soon as I come in,
and she starts to see moving,
she's gonna peer pick up
and kinda come towards me.
Right now, she's not.
So, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Come on, keep on trying though.
Come on, girl, come on, come on, come on,
Ooh, now she's shown some interest.
A little bit of interest,
little bit of interest.
Now she's looking like she might go actually.
It's a possibility, she starting to know.
Yeah, here she goes.
Here she goes.
I think she might actually eat guys.
I don't know.
Where are you going, girl?
Come on.
Where are you going?
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Let's go, girl.
Come on, you're interested?
Okay, here we go you're interested.
Here we go, here we go.
Come on, you got it, girl.
You got it, girl.
Come on.
She shows, shoot up, she goes maybe not.
May be not.
Nope.
Gosh, tell you what?
It's so crazy.
And basically when I think it was happening guys.
It's the same thing that happens really almost every time.
She starts the follicle growth, right?
She's starting a cycle where she wants to breed
and she goes off food during that period time.
If I threw a male in right now
they would probably breed her
and we probably get a clot.
But the truth is,
is that I don't wanna breed her.
(laughing) Right.
I don't wanna be like ,
'cause I remember a couple of years ago we breed her,
and she got egg bone
and I thought I was gonna lose her.
I just don't wanna lose this girl.
So, what a bummer.
I thought for a second there, she was gonna eat
but now I don't know what to do,
because I have some rabbits stored up.
And she was the only stake that was due to eat today.
So, a little bit of a dilemma.
So we'll just have to find something else.
For, seeing as I really don't wanna waste the rabbits.
Ivy is always interested in food, even
though she did eat a big meal here just about 10 days ago.
I think she's ready to feed again.
So what do you say?
We just go ahead and at least feed off this rabbit.
So we don't waste it,
because Ivy is really the only animal
that is gonna eat today.
So let's see if we can get her to go,
come on Ivy.
You wanna eat?
You wanna try rabbit, you hungry?
There you go, girl.
There you go.
Oh, yeah.
Ivy is always ready to eat.
And now she gonna rip the plants up.
Ivy you destroying your cage girl.
Al right, so that worked out well.
Again I hate wasting food
and everything else has already fed.
So there's literally nothing outside.
I didn't plan on feeding Ivy today,
but again I just hate wasting stuff.
So, she gets a new extra meal,
and I sure she won't be mad about it.
(soft upbeat music)
Think it get started now
that we have Matilda out with the door
and stuff like Eddie,
even though I'm redoing that wall.
The fact is we want to start target training her.
So I'm gonna start with this ball
and just see if I can't get her
to start following this ball.
Come on, girl.
You wanna come, come on
And the idea is that she's gonna follow the ball
because she thinks it's food.
But then when she gets close
and she's actually following
then I'll actually give her food as a reward.
There you go, girl.
Good job, way to go.
So I'll give her some bites of this.
Give her that little snack, she's happy.
Now I'm gonna see if she'll follow the ball again.
Come on, come on.
Let's go follow the ball girl right over here.
Hey, hey, hurry up.
There we go now, you get some food again.
I'll hide the ball a little bit
and then have her follow again.
Follow, good girl.
There you go.
Now you got food again
and we'll just continue to do this.
And I think in no time, she's a very smart animal
and no time she's gonna start relating that red ball
to food and then we can have her go anywhere we want.
That way, if let's say we want her to go back home,
we can actually target her back home.
And have her walk all the way back home.
Come on, come on.
You know that's a deal.
Come on, come on over here.
Got it over here girl, over here.
Keep following, keep following, keep following.
That's a good girl.
Tell you what guys.
I think this is gonna go pretty well.
I think it's gonna be a pretty easy thing to treat
because she's very food motivated.
And she's already seeming to pick up on it,
which is pretty awesome.
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Well guys, I figured Ivy would just jump in the water,
and actually be right close to this animal
and be close to Ivy as she eats.
I've always thought it was interesting.
I remember one side in that documentary,
I did Brian in the wild actually sitting
at the feet of a cheetah as it was eating in the wild.
And now here I am sitting right with Ivy
in the water with her.
I mean, it's a pretty amazing experience, right,
and I tell yah, life is a rollercoaster.
This year has been wild, right.
And it's a lot of ups and downs.
You guys know that I personally went,
through a lot of ups and downs.
I am doing much better.
And, now it's like,
what is the future, right?
What did we take from this now?
Not only me personally, with the things that I dealt with
but also from just a standpoint of the world.
I think the thing I'm taking out this year is,
to live in the moment more.
I love that there was a quote that once said that
"the happiest you'll ever be, is when you live exactly
for now, not for tomorrow"
but as a business person, it's very difficult.
And it's amazing.
You have to have the foresight to think ahead,
what's next but at the same time,
enjoy today, enjoy the moment.
And that's what I'm trying to do right now.
And it looks like Ivy,
just let go a little bit.
And I'm gonna just quietly wait
to see what she does.
There she goes, she took it right again
and now she's got it in a perfect spot.
What an awesome, how cool is this to be able to be,
just literally a foot away from this experience.
With my feet in the water, just hanging out.
Absolutely amazing, so I don't know the future
is gonna be bright,
and I have a lot of plans.
You guys know, I want to expand to 3.0.
There's a whole bunch of other business things
that I'm working on right now
that I'm excited about.
But at the same time,
I kinda make sure that I'm saving time for the now.
And saving time for enjoying things.
I love working.
I love my animals.
I love being here at the Rep Care.
And I love being at BHP with breeding steaks
but at the same time,
I need some more balance in life.
And that's the challenge that we all have to get.
It's the balance of, can we do the things,
and achieve our things
and go after our dreams and our goals.
Like I always say,
you need to be doing this,
keep your happiness.
But at the same time, have enough time to enjoy life
because you can achieve everything in the world
and still be miserable.
And I would like that earlier this year.
So, I wanna encourage you guys follow your dreams
but also make sure that you're following your dreams,
that are gonna make you happy.
And save time to enjoy it,
and live in now.
I'm gonna just soak in this experience with Ivy here.
Because it is absolutely stunning
to be literally just look,
I can literally touch her.
Right now, as she's eating in the water,
how freaking awesome is that, wanted to mention guys.
I'll be honest with you.
I've done so many animal experiences,
right in my life
I've done so many incredible things.
And still there are things like this that I've never done.
This is the very first time
that I've ever been this close
to an Anaconda eating literally
with my feet in the water right next to her.
I've never done this before.
It is absolutely incredible.
Ivy is a, you guys know how much I love her.
She is amazing.
Matilda, what are you doing?
Matilda what are you doing girl?
This is the problem with having a tortoise in store now.
Matilda, get out there, come on, come on
get out of there.
Get out, come on, come on.
Matilda, come on.
Oh, my gosh Flo is gonna be so mad at you.
Come on, no more racking in the gift shop.
Matilda, you stay away from there.
Oh, my gosh.
If Flo sees her wrecking the gift shop, she loves you
but you're gonna be in big trouble girl.
Now go ahead.
Get away from there.
I'm gonna clean this mess up.
(soft upbeat music)
(water splashing)
Starting to come up for a breath.
Nope, you can go back down.
It's so interesting how she literally doesn't take a breath,
and there it is.
He's popped up for a breath,
and tell she's basically done it.
What a wild thing to see that whole experience,
literally right at my feet.
And again, this just shows you how absolutely
incredible this animal is.
Is that here she is feeding right there.
She's in good mood.
She's touching my feet right now
and that she's showing no aggression towards me.
She knows I'm not food stuff.
Again, I don't mean to suggest more people doing this
with our these snakes honestly
but Ivy is pretty special.
So Lucy has now come up to the part of the cage
that she typically eats in.
So I'm gonna go ahead and give her a shot again.
I just wanna get my girl to eat.
You want to eat girl?
She seems so interested.
See, I mean, she looks like she's so interested
in food right now.
She's doing all the things
but then she's just slowly backing off.
Come on girl, you wanna go, come on,
oh, she got it, she got it.
I tell you what I am so happy that she did.
Isn't it weird when she's over on this side of the cage
she didn't seem to be interested.
Now when she comes up here, it's almost like,
this is this the spot where she knows she's gonna get fed.
I am so excited.
I was so concerned like what she wants to eat,
not because I was concerned with their health
because I know she's fine, but you know
I just don't like her to not eat.
So after a couple months off, she finally took a rabbit.
This is absolutely amazing.
So, well I thought I'm gonna just sit back
and enjoy this.
(upbeat music)
- [Brian] What is the plans for 2021?
Like what's your plans
like what do you wanna accomplish in 2021?
- What do I wanna accomplish?
- [Brian] Yes.
- I wanna work less that's what I want to accomplish.
- Well, that's perfect because
I actually have three businesses that I wanna work
on this year.
Three new things.
- Oh, that's not with me.
- No, no, no, no.
These are gonna be things that reduce your workload
and it's gonna be good for you, okay.
- No.
- [Brian] What do you mean no.
- You're not starting something new
that will release my workload.
- [Brian] Yeah, all three businesses
not only do not have to work
but it'll actually maybe make you work less in the future.
- Do you have somebody you're working with on this?
- [Brian] No.
- 'Cause it's not me.
- [Brian] Not yet, but I'm working on it.
But are you in.
- No.
- [Brian] Three businesses-
- I'm not in, you're on your own.
- [Brian] What do you mean.
- I'm not (chuckles)
- [Brian] You gonna be supporting of me
but you don't have to do anything.
- You don't understand less.
- [Brian] No balance is important.
So I'm working on some balance stuff
that's gonna make less work and be better for you
for three new businesses.
- Yeah, whatever, this is a conversation
for off the camera.
- [Brian] Okay, so we're good.
- No.
- [Brian] We're good.
- I've gone.
- [Brian] No, so we're good, we're good.
Okay, all right sounds good.
Thanks for your support.
So Lucy crushed the first rabbit.
Let's go ahead and see if she wants another one.
It looks like she's still kinda getting things down
a little bit.
Don't you want another rabbit,
do you want another rabbit?
There she goes.
She took that so cute, unbelievable.
Oh my God, and so don't cram it in the water
you silly monkey you,
come on, get back over here.
She is so heavy.
Get back over here, silly.
Oh, what a snake huh,
I tell you what she is amazing
and I hadn't figured,
heck if I had the experience with Ivy being close
why not sit with Lucy a little bit.
Now I will tell you,
Lucy is a little bit more dangerous than Ivy, right.
I don't trust her 'cause when she's done eating
I've gotta get out of this cage.
But you know, it goes back to that balancing
and I need your help too.
I mean, let me know in the comments,
how are you coming out of this,
are you trying to take a new level of balance in your life?
And I know it's easy to wanna balance
when you have maybe a job that you might like
or maybe not love, or maybe hate for that matter.
And you wanna do different thing.
It's harder when you love what you do.
I mean, when I can literally get this close
to a giant 20 foot snake,
and I'm just this is what I love, you know.
So it's really hard to balance when all you really wanna do
is be with your animals.
But at the same time, I think that it's important.
It's important to find other outlets
that make you happy and maybe just have a break
because with me seven days a week, I'm here,
day-to night, every day.
And sometimes that can be monotonous and
although I love it and I don't wanna do anything else
that balance is kinda important.
And let me know what you guys think.
I mean, should I just keep crying it
and just not worry about it,
what should I do?
Should I just take some time off every now and then,
I don't know.
As the year is coming to an end
and the hopefulness of 2021 being a much better year,
you know I wanna make sure that my mental health
and my happiness is as good as anything.
And I wanna also inspire you guys.
You guys know I've been on a crazy journey this year
and I wanna inspire you guys that are still suffering
to look back on that journey of mine and see
how we got to where we went just through really working hard
at my mental health and stuff.
And I keep promising you guys a video.
We're gonna drop two videos.
One, hopefully on January 1st,
that's an inspirational video.
And then shortly thereafter, something about anxiety.
So stay tuned for that.
But in the meantime, again just like with Ivy,
this is fricking awesome.
I mean look at this, look at this.
I am literally inches away
from a 20 foot snake eating a rabbit.
I mean, how fricking epic is that?
I'm just gonna sit back and live in the moment right now.
(upbeat music)
So it's incredible that Lucy ate
I'm so relieved because I just hate not seeing her eat.
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