Bali Reptile Rescue

matthew.21 said:

Love what you're doing , I'm looking Into a career in reptiles that's my dream job. Do you have any advice?

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Get a real job first and use that to finance your play time with reptiles
Follow your dream
Doors open when we least expect them to
Dedication can be more important than degrees
But a good education means more people will listen
Dont get too tied up with rubbish, the most important thing is now and always will be education

We just had a family of 5 cancel their involvement in the Borneo trip
Circumstances involving an older family member

This leaves a huge hole
Anyone thinking about visiting Borneo could do a lot worse than join in
Sleeping in the jungle doing wildlife survey for 7 days
Starts 4th September until 12th September

http://www.facebook.com/balireptilerescue?hc_location=timeline
Just had what I think is a wonderful rescue
A young lady called Valentina Miller, who is terrified of snakes, was looking for a lost dog on Pantai Brawa. She has seen a python in the surf. Every time it tried to come back on land people were taking photos and scaring it back into the water. Valentina told everyone to leave it alone and made sure they did so. I was rung and headed over to find a magnificent burmese python in peak condition. These are one of the only snakes protected in Indonesia and are getting rare here now. I have washed it to remove the salt and given it the opportunity to get rid of any water it injested.

[h=5]With Jarrod Bingham and Roman there had the chance to go over the burmese a lot more closely
Not happy about the left eye
Prognosis at this stage is not too good
We removed more ticks and head injury appears to be healing
One tough old snake this one
Has 2 sites on the body where major injuries have occurred in the past
At a guess one is from being run over
Other appears to be a fairly large bite wound
Both have healed fairly well considering they would have been major injuries[/h]Still very feisty which bodes well for it in the future

Worth a look
retic from yesterday
looking ok

too funny
2.30am phone rings
same time can hear lots of noise close by
screams about ular sendok [cobra] etc
grab torch and hook and run down still trying to hear what thy are saying on the phone
gorgeous ular pelangi [sunbean snake] in the lane way
walk over and pick it up
voice on phone says
"Better hurry up. Some crazy old guy just picked it up"
Gave her a card
Strange to watch someone blush bright red at 2.32am

Wow I've been to Bali four times and didn't even know they had a reptile rescue there. Are there any volunteer opportunities at the rescue?

Crouton said:

Wow I've been to Bali four times and didn't even know they had a reptile rescue there. Are there any volunteer opportunities at the rescue?

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No worries at all
especially around wet season when we get flat out like a lizard drinking

lovely snake doing ok

longqi said:

lovely snake doing ok

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Beautiful python! I had to research reticulated pythons after seeing your Facebook post. I love the iridescent colour

Job well done! You must get such job satisfactions. I would take "crazy old guy" as a compliment

Wouldnt be dead for squids
Great fun Lawra

there will be more photos added later
But these give some idea of the power and beauty of a bali burmese




Dont laugh too much at the length
Bali burms are the smallest locale
This one is pound for pound the most powerful snake Ive ever tangled with

relocated sumatran retic who didnt understand that rule about prey size

Next time anyone asks if their adult carpet can start eating rats show them this photo

Wild snakes eat basically what ever they can inhale

Burmese Pythons are really powerful...They are tearing hell up in Florida at the moment and most of the local wildlife doesn't know how to deal with them...They are beasts!

Florida is way over exaggerated though
recent hunting competion proves that beyond doubt
Over 1200 hunters
50 days hunting
53 burmese caught/killed

While there is no doubt that a substantial population of burmese exists there
their effect on declining wildlife populations is very debateable
At present they are blamed for every thing
Easy scape goats to avoid the real reasons for the declines such as pollution, development, cats, people etc etc

News media love it
No headlines read better than
KILLER SNAKES ON THE HUNT.. BEWARE BEWARE

Every one knows retics dont climb????
Beautiful Bali yellowhead retic.
Door was wide open but when it was disturbed it immediately started climbing

Today was messy
Retic ate a chicken
Farmer found retic and not happy
Put it in a wire cage beside the road trying to sell it
We were told about it after 2 days

We have personal issues with buying animals for release
ie; Tourist sees an animal at the markets here and buys it thinking he/she is helping wildlife by buying it and giving it to us to release
Seller immediately asks hunters to get 2 more; because tourists always pay top dollar
So in our opinion buying from markets actually has a negative impact

This type of case is slightly different
Farmer lost chicken
Farmer holds snake for ransom
We negotiate a deal involving replacement chickens or value thereof
Retic drank a couple of litres and was released down the valley in a secure area after some ticks were removed from around the eyes and mouth area
Bali Happy ending?

Look at the colour of this retic compared to the other Bali retics on this thread
Perfect camouflage in that area, but not in other parts of Bali

That's a beautiful retic.

We have just taken on this lovely Bali burmese
It has been hit in the face recently
Unknown cause but very nasty infection
Infection goes too deep to cut it all out
Will do our best
Unfortunately no free veterinary service for wildlife here
So if anyone knows a vet who has out of date anti biotics???? hint hint


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Trip to Kalimantan was interesting to say the least
No luxury but a total blast
Photos in raw format so need to convert them before posting a few teasers
Will be back there April/May then July and August/September 2014
Can also arrange other dates if groups of 5 or more want to experience somewhere fantastic

Save your pennies
Will be well worth joining in next time

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Doing a rescue relocate saves one snake
Teaching scared kids the true beauty of animals may save thousands