Made the trip to Norfolk, NE yesterday to hang out with Travis and a bunch of retics. This was my first experience with retics, and I have to say... I am completely sold! I had an absolute blast handling these [mostly] gentle giants, and will almost certainly pick one up from Travis at Tinley in October. I only got tagged once while handling over a dozen babies... that is a much better ratio than I get with my carpets! lol
My girlfriend was hesitant at first, but she quickly fell in love with a 9 ft albino tiger, and now wants one almost as bad as I do lol. Enough yapping, here are some pics
We got some pics of babies, including a purple suntiger and a snow (my two favs!) but the little buggers would not stay still for pics. Plus it was hard to keep up with Travis, he was trying to show me 100 different snakes at once lol, he is obviously very passionate and dedicated to the hobby. My gf also took the following video, which shows how difficult a big female that doesn't want to cooperate can be. I tweaked my back during training this week, so wasn't able to move as fast or manhandle this girl as much as I could have, and I'm glad these two kids were there to help. These kids were absolutely fearless with these retics!
Big Female Retic - YouTube
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