Do you enjoy being around animals? Any animal, just because they happen to be there?

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TexChik · F

Most the critters I like . I actually restrained myself from blasting the biggest rattle snake I have ever seen , but instead called my farmer who likes to catch venomous snakes and collect and sell their venom . His wife isn’t too keen on it but she does like the money . Had he not been able to come out I would have shot it . Saw lots of deer and Turkey , lots of birds

UnderLockDown · M

@TexChik How does one make the right connections for selling venom? I thought about doing that a while ago, but it's no easy feat finding the right connections. I grew up in the desert, have lots of experience with snakes.

TexChik · F

@UnderLockDown He had a professor he helped in undergrad and learned how . He buys beakers, collects under a vent hood to prevent contamination , has an autoclave and can only collect in sterile vessels with sterile latex covers , and then store it a certain temp . He gets a lot because he has quite a collection of snakes and has a couple of partners that do a lot of the collection s. He catches the snakes and has the facilities to keep them .