Snakes for Hire: We take all type of bookings to run our educational presentations:
- Childrens parties
- Schools
- Kids holiday clubs
- Fun days and Fetes
- Special rates for scouts clubs
- Team Building
- Society meetings – talk demonstrations
We have 65 snakes of varying sizes and breeds to take out for:
- Photoshoots
- Videos
- TV shows
- Club visits
- Parties
A few of the snakes are suitable dancing partners for Snakey Sue and she has many beautiful costumes for snake dancing and meet and greet.
All payments for events are used to finance the running of the Sanctuary and the events help to keep the snakes socialised and stimulated.
Taking snakes out to meet the public has its challenges; snakes cannot regulate their own temperatures and most people think that they like to be hot, but just like any animal or human no-one wants to be cooked in the heat!! Snakes need moderate warm temps to be in whilst working in fact a little cooler is better than hotter – heat kills more quickly than cold, between 20c and 27c is a reasonable temperature.
When we handle the snakes we warm them with our body heat, in fact childrens hands are often very hot and in the Summer months when we are at outside events we need to take water sprays and bath bowls to cool the snakes down and our best position to be is under trees. When the outside temps are below 18c we need to be indoors as even the snakes that come from North America will attempt to hide under our clothes to keep warm, pockets, hoods, hats are all great places to warm up. In the Winter months we put hot water bottles in their carry cases to keep them warm so often need a supply of warm water to top them up when we arrive and/or leave the venue.
It’s a shame we don’t get booked for more adult parties as snakes go down so well at them when we do, people just love chatting and chilling at parties with a friendly snake wrapped around them 🙂
Below are some photos of people having fun with snakes at an adults birthday party.
