You had a hot water valve and a cold water valve and make sure the water was just the right temperature so that it wouldn’t give ’em a chill and you wouldn’t cook ’em. Today, they have all automated systems where they don’t have to do that anymore, but we had to do it. And I took care of frogs and toads and lizards. And then after about six months then I was allowed to begin taking care of snakes. Within a year, I was taking care of venomous snakes, rattlesnakes, cobras. I had a very conservative approach. Safety is pounded into our head as keeper in the reptile house in the beginning anyway. Every venomous cage is locked twice and you make sure before you open it that you’d open it carefully.
