Programs
Schools, libraries, scouts, and birthdays. Call the shop to book. Tell us ages, group size, and whether anyone is new to reptiles.
Animals from rainforest to desert, with a keeper on hand to talk about how each one lives. Formal school and library programs usually run about an hour with roughly twenty animals, questions, an optional chance to touch select animals, and a feeding demo if you ask for one.
A looser version of the same visit: the animals are the event, not a bounce-house with a snake in the corner. About twenty creatures, a chance to hold a live reptile, a feeding demonstration if you want it. Book ahead — these fill.
Spiders, centipedes, millipedes, scorpions, cockroaches, giant stick insects, and other bugs, and the jobs they do. The same call-ahead booking as the reptile programs.
A formal program is usually about an hour, with roughly twenty animals highlighted one at a time, then questions, a closer look, optional touching of select animals, and a feeding demo if you want one. Feel a tortoise shell and hear what it is made of. Touch a large snake and hear how it grows. Look at a red-eyed treefrog and hear why the eyes are red.
Libraries and rooms we have brought programs to include Windsor Locks Public Library, Sherman Library, Prosser Library, Burlington Library, Meriden Public Library, Barney Library, Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, Oliver Wolcott Library, Case Memorial Library, Cromwell Belden Public Library, Booth and Dimock Memorial Library, Willington Library, Welles-Turner Memorial Library, Durham Library, Plumb Memorial Library, Cornwall Free Library, Groton Public Library, Canton Public Library, Simsbury Libraries, The Zoo in Forest Park.
Shows
We get to reptile shows around the northeast, and to a few local events. The old date list is stale, so we are not publishing it. Check back here, or follow us on Instagram, for the next one.
