Est. 2009 — Referral Practice
A consultancy for people who
work around dangerous serpents.
Snakecharmer provides applied husbandry, envenomation-response planning, and captive-enclosure engineering for zoological institutions, film productions with live-animal units, academic venom laboratories, and private keepers of restricted species.
Intake docket closed through Q4-2026. New matters accepted only on referral from a cooperating DVM (herpetological or exotics), a current or former institutional client's lead keeper, or counsel of record in an active case. All referrals are logged against a conflict register before a file is opened.
Advisory Monsoon field operations suspended through early September. Document reviews proceeding on normal schedule.
Service Directory
Four lines of practice. Engagements are scoped individually and billed against defined deliverables.
Field Response & Relocation
On-site identification and removal of native and escaped non-native snakes from residential, agricultural, and institutional settings. Includes documentation for insurance and regulatory reporting.
Read specification → 02Captive Enclosure Engineering
Design review and commissioning of primary and secondary containment for elapids, viperids, and large constrictors. Airflow modeling, substrate selection, lock-class specification, and keeper ergonomics.
Read specification → 03Envenomation Protocol Drafting
Site-specific bite response documents coordinated with attending physicians and regional poison control. Covers antivenom sourcing logistics, transit triage, and staff rehearsal.
Read specification → 04Expert Witness & Deposition
Testimony and written opinion in matters involving reptile husbandry standards of care, private-keeper liability, and wildlife import compliance. Case acceptance is limited and subject to conflict review.
Read specification →Species Competency
Front-fanged species are worked under the two-person rule without exception. Keying of juvenile Agkistrodon, Trimeresurus, and rear-fanged colubrids is confirmed by scale-row count and, where ambiguous, a cheek-swab referred to a cooperating laboratory.
“The animal is not the hazard. The hazard is the distance between what the keeper believes about the animal and what is actually true in the enclosure at 3 a.m.”
— H. Marek, internal training memo, rev. 14