Practice
Snakecharmer was organized in 2009 as a sole practice and expanded in 2017 to include a second principal and a rotating reserve of three field associates. We have never advertised. Our client list is shorter than it could be, on purpose.
Every engagement begins with a site walk or, where that is not feasible, a structured document review. We do not quote fees before understanding the physical and procedural environment. We do not quote fees over the phone at all.
Our written work is peer-reviewed internally before release. Field operations are staffed to the two-person rule without exception, including routine feed calls on familiar collections.
We maintain standing cooperative agreements with three university venom laboratories and two regional poison control centers. These relationships are not transferable; they exist because specific individuals have known our work across many years.
We decline matters where the client's goal is to defeat a regulation we consider reasonable. We have lost engagements this way and consider the losses to be evidence of the method working.
Principal, Field Operations
Twenty-two years in institutional herpetology, formerly senior keeper of venomous collections at a mid-Atlantic zoological park. MS in wildlife biology. Lead author on two peer-reviewed papers concerning keeper workflow and escape etiology.
Principal, Clinical Liaison
Veterinarian with residency training in zoological medicine. Joined the practice in 2017. Coordinates all protocol-drafting engagements and manages cooperative antivenom logistics. Does not accept matters in which a sitting client is an adverse party.
We are based in the high desert and operate routinely across the inland west and the Gulf coast. Field work outside those regions is accepted for standing clients and for cases where the species or incident profile is unusual enough to justify the transit.
New engagements considered through existing relationships. The practice is not structured to receive cold inquiries, and the absence of a contact channel on this site is intentional. A referring professional already knows how to reach us.