Austin Reptile Service

I would highly recommend this service for birthday parties! We had my son’s 3^rd Birthday party and hired austin reptile service to provide entertainment for the party. They were great– all of the children had a blast and the parents enjoyed the education about the animals.
The presentation of the reptiles lasted about 45 minutes and was very interactive– thank you for making our party a huge hit!

These guys were great … here’s my story:
It was an interesting Fat Tuesday. When the home inspector said 5′ long and a 4″ girth and used the word «exotic», we had grandiose ideas of someone’s lost python under the house on S. 2^nd. It went something like this …
The inspector was just entering the crawl space under the house and the snake was right there all coiled up but quickly startled by the inspectors presence. So the big bad snake raised up in the air climbing /​moving out of the way quickly. As you can imagine, the inspector did the same and backed out of the space quickly and called the inspection done for the day.
I get the call from the buyers agent at 4 pm with the «request» to remove the snake asap so they can complete the inspection. After a few phone calls including city animal service (no), and an exotic pet store (no), I landed on the Austin Reptile Service and they were awesome. They were at the house at 6 and methodically crawled around under the house looking for mr. snake and found him in about 10 – 15 minutes. They came back out next day to make sure he was the only one.
The snake was neither «exotic» nor someone’s lost pet nor wide-​girthed but he was 4 ½ feet long and resembled a fat water hose. Mr. (or mrs.) snake was a TX rat snake or bull snake, common and harmless (but they will bite if they’re mad). This particular mr. snake will either be used in the Austin Reptile Service educational program or will be released to a more suitable natural environment.
Definitely a memorable Fat Tuesday.

I highly recommend Austin Reptile Service. I used them for snake removal — a rattle snake appeared on my back patio late on a Sunday afternoon and I started calling every local Austin number I could find to see if they’d do a service call on a Sunday. They are located in Georgetown but the owner was super friendly and called a colleague who lives much closer to my area in South Austin and promptly called me back. The person closer to my neighborhood made it to my home in under an hour and quickly and safely removed the snake and all for a fair price. AND he confirmed it for me as a Western Diamondback Rattler. Yuck! Thank you Austin Reptile Service, I will highly recommend your services!