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Movie
Snakes
The snakes we
use for training are four female western diamondbacks. We know
they're females because the first year we had them they all
had babies. (Goliath had 13, Big Momma 10, Juliet 5, and Comso
5. )
These snakes
have appeared on local TV, but recently they were featured in
a movie. The movie, titled Purgatory, AZ, was produced
by BigBrain Productions, an Arizona film company.
In the opening
scene, the lead character is bitten by a rattlesnake (played
by ViperVoidance's own Goliath) and winds up in Purgatory
(AZ). The movie may be available sometime in 2008.
SUPER BOWL
2008
The first
weekend of January 2008 the "girls" went on a video shoot. All
four snakes were there and three were featured. These
snakes do a great sit-stay. Actually, it's more like a
sit-rattle. (a little snake humor there.)
The producers
wanted shots of rattlesnakes, so when the
broadcaster comes back from a commercial, the
viewing public will be reminded of where the Super Bowl is
being played. (Humm, using that logic, the entire world will
think that Arizona is infested with rattlesnakes.) So, if you watched
the 2008 SuperBowl and saw a rattlesnake next to a:
football helmet, football, or a cowboy hat and rope,
it was a ViperVoidance snake.
We've returned (January 2010) from The Vulture Mine in Wickenburg, Arizona. The TV series Ghost Hunters was filming an episode there and wanted rattlesnakes for cut-a-way shots. It was cold and raining and the girls only wanted to get back in the cage; however, the crew got the shots they needed. Episode may air sometime in 2010 in the fall.
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