kingsnake.com founder Jeff Barringer interviewed a number of attendees at the PIJAC/USARK Reptile Summit in Tinley Park this evening, part of the NARBC Conference and Tradeshow.

First is Bill Brant of The Gourmet Rodent, and PIJAC’s representativ…

I am liveblogging the PIJAC/USARK reptile summit on the night of Friday, Feb. 12, from Tinley Park. If you’d like to follow along, this is how it works:

The liveblog is under the jump. Each new update will be added at the top, so if you want to r…

On Friday, February 12, from 7-11 PM Eastern Time, we’ll be offering live coverage of the PIJAC/USARK Reptile Summit in the kingsnake.com chat room and on the kingsnake.com blog.

kingsnake.com’s Cindy Steinle will begin the evening with a liveblo…

In yet another attack on the reptile community, today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will look to list the “Big 9″ from the USGS survey published in October on the Lacey Act as injurious spe…

I’m blessed that by the time I started getting involved in reptiles, many great woman had already paved the way. I’m also blessed to have a father who always raised me to think I could do anything a boy could do.

Women being interested in herp…

Will bad science make a bad law? It will if we don’t take action.

Just like everyone who cares about keeping reptiles, I’m extremely concerned about S373 and HR2811, federal bills in the House and Senate that would ban several species of phythons…

I can honestly say I am happy to be starting a new week. For reptile people, this week was hell. S373 passed the Environment and Public Works committee with some revisions and is moving ahead. Our next steps are going to be big in a make or bre…

Today, like many of you, I got my USARK member email blast. S373 is coming back to the Environment and Public Works committee for mark-up. This is where things are amended, voted on and moved forward. This bill could be attached to something mo…

Today the hearings quietly came and went for S373. We herpers all await the outcome, not really so patiently.

What did you do? I personally faxed all but two of the committee members on Tuesday. Wednesday I followed up with a phone call to e…

It’s on everyone’s mind in these days of python bans: are my pythons illegal?

There are three bills currently floating around that will impact our reptile trade as we know it should any of them pass into law. All three of these bills are still…