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It's my new friend Mark from Snakes Alive OKAC, the man who captures the
Oklahoma City python that we've been talking about for weeks. Here roh he here
h here here row here here row Good morning, Mark, how you doing
here morning? It's Mike. You're a hero. Mike. Oh, thank
you, sir. We didn't actually capture the animal. One of the homeowners
went out to check their garbage at like one o'clock in the morning and found
the thing at their trash can Oh damn it. Do you have their phone
number? Then? I do not. Many they have not even identified themselves.
Wh we run a big rescue here nicolea city of exotic animals, and
they we've been out there a couple of times. We helped the guys that
had the dogs train the dogs to try to find it. We brought one
of our snakes up there and let them put it underneath the trailer and let
the dogs try to find it. And evidently that didn't work. Okay,
wait, can you can you amplify that a little bit? You took one
of your own rescue snakes and put it under the trailer to tests to see
if the dogs could find it. Yeah. We put it in a container
that had a bunch of holes in it, fuck, a screen container so
the dog could smell it. They put it under trader put the skirting back
on it, and took the dogs a couple of balks away and let them
start searching for it. And the dogs actually came right to the trainer and
sit down next to where the snake was. Wow, okay, so that
kind of worked. That's cool. So yeah, they found the I mean
it was pretty cool to watch. I hadn't I had no confidence in the
dogs at all, but they actually did find it. Yeah, Mike,
I gotta ask. There's been some shoddy reporting about this entire story over the
last three weeks. I mean, it's been very strange conspiracies of if people
at the trailer park were hushed by management. So are we to believe?
And we were led to believe that this snake this we were told that it
was an albino golden python had grown up to thirteen feet in size because it
had been eating a lot of stray cats. I am not certain. I
mean, there are many I've touched to some detectives around this case, some
distinguished detectives, including the great DFW detective Detective Dick Shale, who's like,
he's possible that the python could have eaten an old woman or something. So
there's a lot of crazy things that have been going around with this story.
Is it true that the python that was believed to be thirteen feet was not
that big? Right? He is actually about eight feet long. I have
him at our rescue right now. He's about eight feet little, maybe eight
and a half feet long. He's not a fourteen foot cat eater. He
hasn't eaten anything probably in the last two months at least. Oh wow,
Okay, so it's safe to say that this, the python that you have
in captivity, was not capable of eating a human woman. No, okay,
Now most of them aren't. The stories you see on the internet and
stuff, Most of those are fakes. There's been a few instances in in
like Indonesia with the big, big big reticks eating and human but it's always
somebody a very very small stature. They have trouble with our shoulders. If
we didn't have shoulders, it'd be no problem at all. Wow, we
do. The big snakes can eat one hundred and hundred and fifty pounds pig
without any problem at all. Wow. Because they don't have shoulders. They're
shaped like a lauze. They go down like a big pill. But some
old ladies are shaped like a lozenge. Yep. If not, if it's
one of those old ladies where her shoulders are all collapsed, yeah, then
we're in a different ballpark. But when you captured the snake, you didn't
see the outline of an old lady holding a TV guide or anything and had
a way that was a mistake. He was liking us. Yeah, we
call him back, him him I then he calls back so excited. He
just clicked the wrong buttoner his face hit the button, made a snake reached
his head up there and tapped the off button. Maybe it was the TV
guide that made him hang up. He didn't even barely get to that joke.
He couldn't have gotten that bad and hung up that quickly. We did
my reissued TV guide joke also called him Mark. Maybe the emergency snake line
rang and he had to take that one. That's true. Maybe there's another
one that's pretty What what if the snake just latched onto Mark's head and phone
the second he was providing this information. Hello, Mike, Sorry we lost
connection with you there. How you doing no problem? It's all good,
No, you're good. We appreciate you taking the time. Again. For
those of you are just now joining, this is Mike from Snakes Alive OKC,
which is a nonprofit. So thank you for what you guys do up
in Oklahoma City. And Mike uh knows a little bit about the Oklahoma City
python that we've been talking about for three weeks on the show. The reporting
has just been highly disappointing. The amount of fake news that we've detected has
just been gross, to be honest. Yeah, so what the snake was
hiding underneath the trailer. Was it true there was an elementary school near that
trailer park? And would that snake have been at road, he wouldn't have
been. Probably not an issue at all for elementary school. He's eight feet
long. The deal with those pythons, Now, if he had been fourteen
feet that changes everything because at about ten feet they start to get a lot
more girth and they grow slower, and so he is probably I would guess
two maybe three years old. A fourteen foot snake would be five or six
years old, and the girth sort of six spin he's not. He's about
as big round as say, your arm, whereas if a fourteen foot snake
would be bigger round than your thigh. So when there's quite a bit of
difference in just that four feet of snake, Thanks Mike. So when you
were called by, you said it was a resident that was taking out their
trash and discovered the snake, and you were called to come in and captured
the snake. Is that is that safe to say? The resident actually took
a laundry basket and put it over the top of the snake and taped it
all up and wired it together and everything so the snake couldn't get out of
laundry basket. Okay, wow, they didn't want anything to do with it.
And from that point, the resident captures the snake. What happens in
between that and you obtaining the snake and having it at your rescue, I
guess the maintenance people from the Trader park went down and got it early that
morning and then they called me. They put it into a dog kennel,
one of the big plastic dog kennels, and then we went and picked it
up with an enclosure and brought it to our rescue, put some heat on
it, and and he's dehydrated. He's got a severe respiratory infection, so
he'll go into rehab. It'll take four or five months to get him over
the respiratory infection and get him well, and then we'll adopt you back out.
And what is that in you say you're going to adopt him back out?
Would that be to an amateur herpetologist that you know collects snakes or how
does that go? We go to a zoo normally, normally on the reticular
improtence of the Burmese pythons, we have a pretty intensive adoption process, and
we have to have someone who has at least two years experience with large large
snakesh it has to be experienced that we can talk to the people. It's
I've been doing this since about eighty six, so I know most people in
the hobby, and we have to be able to verify that they actually have
experience with something that big at eight foot most people, I mean, if
you look at the guy, you're like, you know, he's not that
big. But last fall, there was actually a girl during it may been
earlier than that, but during COVID there was a girl up north, I
believe in Indiana or Illinois who got killed by her nine foot rejick dang dam
she was. It was in the middle of the night. They had a
somebody had a place like a like a central location in a rent house or
something where they kept all these animals at for people that couldn't keep them in
there. Say she lived in an apartment. A lot of apartments won allow
reptiles. Yeah, so he basically ran out of space for them to keep
all the reptiles there. So there were several people's animals in this area and
she went up there in the middle of the night to feed her snake,
and something happened. Normally, that's ninety five percent of the time when people
get bitten or anything, it's it's during feeding. It's it's stupid feeding errors.
So she did something and the snake got hold of her and got around
her neck. And it only takes you about forty five to fifty seconds for
one of those guys to make you pass out, not that long. And
once you pass out, the snake kept constricting around her neck, and they
will constrict until they don't feel a pulse anymore. Oh, geniuses. And
it actually it actually killed the girl. And that's the that's the first death
I've seen in several several years from a big pythot and he wasn't even that
big. This is Mike from Snakes Alive in Oklahoma City. Thank you for
I back to the adoption policy. Is there any chance you might waive that
experience if the potential adopter was a local radio personality in DFW who's one second
place before? Because if so, could you put Kevin Turner at the top
of the list as a potential owner of the snake? He's been obsessed with
this story and can you imagine Kevin, the joy of actually calling out this
snake your friend incredible. I'm sure we could wish your training to take care
of it. They're not not real hard to take care of. You just
have to be kind of cautious when they get big. Yeah. So I
have two questions, and then if there's anything else, we'll try to be
quick with you here, Mike. But one thing, is there anything to
the rumor that there is another snake cat eating snake still out there? Or
was this the one? I would doubt in the same area. I don't
believe there is. I think they had the one that was lose. This
one if if you see the pictures of him and the original sure that was
on social media, they're the same animal. It's it's hard to miss.
When they first released that picture, you could tell it was it was not
like a normal ano burmese. The they have a pattern down the side that
you can see, and this was more of a solid yellow color. And
that's the actual python themself is called an albino golden child, and a golden
child is a morph of snake that has no pattern and very little color,
so it makes them almost solid yellow all the way down. Do we believe
this was just a person who owned it and it just didn't take care of
it or wet it out. In your estimation, what's the origin story of
the snake? Normally with all the rescues, we see one of two things.
Either somebody can't take care of it and they panic and they just let
it go, thinking, you know, hey, this thing, I'll be
able to make it in the wild. Or they're really really good at escaping
enclosures. People underestimate can be when it comes to getting out of a cage.
They're not real intelligent as far as like a dog or a cat,
you know, fetching your shoes or anything. But they're really really good at
getting out of enclosures. Okay, they have nothing like inmates. They have
nothing better to do all day long than trying to figure out how to get
out. Last question, then we'll let you go. Mike. Are you
aware of the story from a couple of years ago here in town in Grand
Prairie, which is a city between Arlington and Dallas, the Grand Prairie Cobra.
Are you aware of that story from two years ago? I have heard
about that story. We actually come down to the Dallas Fort Worth area two
to three times a month to pick up animals down there as well. Okay,
there's not a lot of people that do what we do, so we
get calls from all over the Midwest. Amazing. So the Grand Prarie cobra
was a West African cobra that got loose, got through it, and then
for some reason our local media outside of me decided to stop covering it after
about two weeks of that snake being on the lamb. Do you think that
snake died? Do you think someone scooped it up? It was highly venomous
snake. What do you think Hopefully the cold weather down there killed it.
It would be horrible if the thing. Doubt That's another thing cobra's because of
where they're at. Some of the cobras live in holes and stuff in the
wilds. That's kind of what they do. So realistically, if he found
him a hole to go into, took dinn up, then he could survive
through the winter. What would because of concidentally, I mean, it wouldn't
be on purpose. It would be really actually because they don't know how to
hibernate like our snakes do. But if he went down in a hole,
he would stay there until it warmed up. Is it possible that since we
you know the state of Texas and I guess Oklahoma to a certain degree,
you know, I mean, we have the sweet Water Rattlesnake round up,
which is a globally known event, is it possible that the cobra could have
embedded with a den of rattlesnakes and become friends. I doubt it. Most
of the time cobra's in the wild don't get along with other snakes. The
king cobra specifically, they eat other snakes. That's what they feed on.
Well, Mike, thank you so much for your time and clearing this up.
And Mike, I'm gonna keep your contact just because if we ever have
any more snake issues, we'd like to, you know, go to you
and and make you, you know, one of our snake experts here on
the downbeat. Thanks Mike. All right, Mike, have you named the
python yet? I think my wife the name Bruno. That's cute, all
right, Bruno? All right, all right, sefw, let's split a
plate of Montrelli sticks at Alamo Draft House. What I was getting a text?
Thanks Mike, threw that from Gary Garfield of Snakes plus and he said,
I've got problems right now with this interview. He does. So let's
go live to the free catline to call in Gary Snakes. You guys know
Gary Garfield of the Texas Snake Institute, owner of Snakes Plus. You've seen
many of their locations, including the superstore out in Saginaw. Alright, what's
in South Lake? Now that's weird superstars as well. But Gary Garfield,
the owner of Snakes Plus. Hello, Gary Snakes, how you doing today?
I'm doing all right, Katy? How are you? So? What
what got you so hot under the collar about that interview with Mike right there
who found the Oklahoma City python? Well, you know, at first,
you know, first of all, I can't tell for sure with he Mike,
with you Mark, he seems a little shifty in meat, you know.
And I think it's really important that with these snakes, you know,
you you get them a chance to be back and released through the normal retail
channels, right like we love to get rescue snakes donated to us, and
then we can, you know, we can sell them to people not only
who are responsible, but show that they have the fiscal responsibility to care for
one of these snakes. You know, the rehab on on something like this.
He was talking about antibiotics and rehab for it. That's intense work.
You know, you got to get them a pull up bar, build them
an obstacle. Course, you got to get a really big treadmill. Like
there's a lot that you have to do, and you know it costs some
money. I have a feeling Gary Snakes, who's joining us now from Snake's
plus that partner, Yeah, our partner or advertising partner. I have a
feeling that snakes pluses experience requirements or maybe a little lower than the snake adoption
requirements for for Mike at at Snakes Alive, Would that be fair to say
one hundred? Anybody can come into our store and pick up one of these
reticulated pythons. You know, we've got Golden Child's, We've got all sorts
of morphs, and you don't have to show that you have any kind of
an expertise. You just have to have the you know, the will to
own a snake like that, the will, the will and a credit card,
a valid credit card. Yeah, we actually prefer cash. So the
people who say in some you know, with some pets adopt, don't shop.
You're you're saying as a retail owner, and the w are you the
biggest I think that that's not a mantra that you would agree with at all.
Right, absolutely, I would say, shot, don't adopt right like
you want a snake that you can get from right at the beginning of this
life, and then you can take it and mold it, train it to
be your pal. Go through any of our numerous courses. My buddy and
me like snake courses where you like learn alongside with your snake, and those
are available for very reasonable prices. But those are also those are only cash.
Yeah yeah. Gary. By the way, thank you for stepping up
and putting us in our hotel rooms in Houston the other night. We appreciate
your partnership over the years, no matter how critical I have been of some
of your practices. I'm not a snake expert and I'm not a herpetologist like
yourself, though, but I thank you for stepping up and getting us those
hotel rooms in Houston the other night for Game seven. Yeah, you bet,
I was kind of I was kind of hoping we could get you know,
we've got a nineteen foot anaconda at our Wataga Superstore, one of our
many superstore and I was hoping we could get that in the back of the
expedition with you guys. But you know, I guess Mike wasn't able to
drive out to Atago on the way down south, so I understand time was
tight, and we thought that would have been a blast to have it for
you all to have at the baseball game. Yeah, we had to bring
him to the game if we could have gotten to a tag in time,
but we could have hidden it inside the crotch of my cow uniform. Yeah
yeah, all right, Gary, real quick. I know you've been free
and open with any snake issues at any of your stores. Everything smooth sailing,
any snakes on the loose recently. Anything we need to know about either
any of the Snake stores or at Spider Town. There's really nothing that I
can comment on legally at this point. You know, I've generally got three
four seven eight lawsuits and litigation at any given time, and there's nothing that
we've closed the books on recently. We also are kind of at a lower
number of stores right now. We're limited to our superstores because a lot of
the twenty seven locations that we talk about get converted to Spirit Halloweens. Yeah,
in September and October. Yeah, sure, So we're about to have
our big expansion and get ready for Christmas. That sounds great, Gary.
And again, yes, thank you for sponsoring our hotel in Houston. I
feel like the accommodations that we stayed in we're very reflective of the of the
business model that you've curated through this number of years. Thank you so much.
Oh it's my pleasure. All right, Gary, we'll talk to you
down the road. That's Gary Snakes. You know them as Gary Garfield actually
been for sure the North Texas Snake Institute and the owner of all of our
Snakes Plus and Spidertown stores here in the Metroplex. And thank you to Parker
University. I hope you're proud of what we've done for you. This segment
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