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Some of the things they make with snake skin.

I think these are the paws from raccoons, not sure. They take a turtle(sorry Billy) and stick a rattle snake head on it and the raccoon feet on it and make a ...ugly little critter.

Those kids should have charged people to take their picture..they could have made a bundle.

From left ole Hertzog(spelling?) Mike and Tanner. I tell every body went I started going to the Snake Show Mike and Hertzog were skinny. But then so was I..I just tell everyone I grew into my tits.

Everyone wanted a picture of their baby, kid, girl or boy's picture taken with a rattle snake..This baby was not impressed and didn't show any reaction at all about the snake draped around his shoulder.

Mike letting kids come up and pet the snakes tail. He is so good with the kids, doesn't encourage them or push them or try and scare them. If they want to pet the snake, fine, in not, fine.

My goofy sweet friend. I have known him longer than any one in West, with the exception of in laws. Mike's birthday is Nov. 1st. mine is the 12th. We always used to celebrate our birthdays together...Which meant getting drunk and going dancing. We was some dancing fools. And we were very good at it too. Mike is the one that used to go with me to steal the numbers off of the VA's joint. They were big red letters. Mike stole the 6 for me and then when they replaced it stole it again. I turned the one 6 up side down and hung them over my bed..

Tanner..good kid and idolizes his Dad. What ever Mike does Tanner wants to do, but bigger, better and twice as loud. If Daddy was a ballerina, Tanner would be one too. Ha..that's a good thing.

The Saturday before this show Tanner did the sleeping bag bit for the first time. Glad I missed that. Sunday he was pushing at the snakes to keep them grouped up and they were striking at him. I kept yelling, 'I'm going to tell your mama if you don't stop that.'..ha

My boys.

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I've kisses some assholes before(so to speak) but I don't think I'd like to kiss that cobra on it's head or any other part of his body.

He's trying to make it 'hood up' so he can distract him with his hand and then kiss him..I know I know..who would do this?...

This is the Cobra all long and loose and ready to hood up..

Everybody has a boa and they haul them out so the kids can have their pictures taken with them. Some of the kids were like' sure I'll touch it or they ran screaming back to mama.'

Can you imagine?..Just wandering around bullshitting and a cobra is all coiled and hooded up to strike..sigh*

The snakes will all congregate in the corners and pile up on each other and occasionally one will get bit and die. Which is my idea of an ideal rattler.

They are just holding him up so he'll hood up and look good for the crowd. They do about 4-6 shows a day depending on the crowds..and there are always crowds..Kids every where.

If you look close at the walls of the pit the kids are pressed right up against the plexi-glass so they can get up close and personal with the snakes.

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Yes, he's kissing the top of the head of a cobra. Fully fanged and full of venom.

These are the snakes that were in the sleeping bag with the Dude.

They put the guy in the sleeping bag, then put in a snake one at a time at the bottom of the bag and then they zip him up and he has to slowly pull himself out of the sleeping bag with out being bit in the ass or other parts.

I put the damn pictures in back wards..the start of it is from the bottom up to the snakes...sigh*

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Seems like this dude (Jackie) is matching or trying to break a record of how many live rattlers you can hold in your mouth at one time. Yes, someone actually keeps track of something like that..I think it's in the Guiness World Record Book... Am I spelling that right?..

I don't know what they're doing here, they are just piling snakes on this dude...and you'll notice, no one is holding a gun on any of them either. Which they would have to do to get me in there. They have 2 girls in the pit now..used to be a big no no for girls in the pit. Now there were so many people in the pit at one time I was starting to freak out. That's how people get bit. Standing around doing shit and not paying attention and first thing you know you got a rattler hanging off your ass. Some one asked me if I had ever wanted to get in the pit with the snakes and I said 'No, I don't need to prove anything and my balls are just the right size for me, thank you very much."

I think this is Kay one of the girls who wrangles snakes. She did the sleeping bag bit that day..I have slept with some snakes before, but nothing like that.

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