Hiss & Hers Herp Hobbies

08/15/2026

The USARK raffle donation for Pacific Northwest Reptile and Exotic Animal Show Albany 2026

08/05/2026

Baby squish butts (leachianus). Have one a bit older and another egg in the dirt. May bring the older one to Albany, not sure.

08/05/2026

Can't wait! See you all there!

07/05/2026

Sulcatas WILL drink when they want to.

06/08/2026

Haven't had one of these hatch for a minute.

05/26/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1PQYG2Kaqc/

For real people!

WHY IT'S ILLEGAL TO KILL SNAKES. (IT'S ALSO UNETHICAL AND IMMORAL.)

When I tell people that it’s illegal to kill snakes in Utah (and many other states and jurisdictions as well), they often want to know why. There are several reasons:

1. Wildlife is the property of the state, which means it belongs to all of us. The snake in your yard doesn’t belong to you; therefore, you have no right to kill it.

2. Snakes are non-game animals. The state doesn’t sell licenses to hunt them, and there is no “open season” on snakes, especially in places where they're protected by law.

3. Snakes are not considered “consumption animals.” Although you can eat them, they probably wouldn’t be your first choice of wild game.

4. Killing a snake, or selling or even keeping a prohibited or protected species without permission from the state makes you a poacher.

5. It’s unethical to kill a harmless and beneficial animal.

6. Snakes eat the rodents that would ravage our food crops, and can carry numerous pathogens including plague, tularemia, Hantavirus, tick-borne encephalitis, Lyme disease, and a host of other serious and potentially fatal diseases. If you have never suffered from any of these maladies, you should probably thank a snake.

7. Learning to coexist with other life forms on this planet makes you a better human being. Practice peaceful coexistence!

From the book, "The Only Good Snake . . . Tales from a Rattlesnake Whisperer," by David E. Jensen

Meme by Serpent Encounters

04/18/2026

Get your tickets for the raffle.

04/15/2026

Are you saving your cash for some USARK raffle tickets? Sure hope so...

04/14/2026

Counting down the days! Come out and see us and all of the animals and fun stuff we will have.

And for our next trick we will be making these 9 boxes disappear. More precisely we will be burying them throughout the Beaverton/Hillsboro area. We will provide their coordinates in a Facebook post Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Each box will have two admissions, and a couple boxes will have two VIP admissions. Why 9 boxes you ask? Because that’s how many boxes we bought.

𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕.𝐈.𝐏. 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 (𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pacific-northwest-reptile-exotic-animal-show-hillsboro-or-april-18-19-tickets-1985176286713?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:
𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫
𝟖𝟎𝟏 𝐍𝐄 𝟑𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐯𝐞.
𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐨, 𝐎𝐑 𝟗𝟕𝟏𝟐𝟒

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧:
𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟖𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎 𝐚.𝐦. - 𝟓:𝟎𝟎 𝐩.𝐦. (𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐕.𝐈.𝐏. 𝐚𝐭 𝟗:𝟎𝟎 𝐚.𝐦.)
𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟎:𝟎𝟎 𝐚.𝐦. - 𝟒:𝟎𝟎 𝐩.𝐦.

𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 $𝟏𝟓.𝟎𝟎
𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝟔-𝟏𝟎 𝐚𝐫𝐞 $𝟕.𝟎𝟎
𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝟓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞