Chandler Kamenesh And His Big Snake (chandler's Wild Life)

[YeetusMyMeatus]

Clint's Reptiles and Blake's Exotic Wildlife Ranch are great because they don't needlessly handle obviously dangerous animals. There's nothing wrong with standing a few feet from a snake and talking about it, but don't go freehandling wild animals when you and most people watching know that snakes will usually only bite you if you either step on them or pick them up. There's that other insanely hot alligator guy in Florida who keeps getting in the pond with the gators, staring them right in the face while telling you all the different ways they can kill you. It really isn't necessary, and he has acknowledged that in doing so he is probably making them look more docile than they really are.

 

[danigreenies99]

What other Florida guy?

 

[deleted1323557]

He needs to stop being foolish. There are ways of handling dangerous (lethal) creatures without maxing out on your risk of death.... Bro just goes up to snake and picks it up. Sorry, but that's just straight up dumb, and influentially irresponsible.

Something maybe too personal for this but I have a decent amount of experience with exotics and have my venom certs from a few states and his handling of all animals is very much show driven, designed to sell a show. In doing that, you get near misses, and he's had a LOT more than have been publicized, and many of them he doesn't recognize on camera even though they were published in the videos (especially with Kevin and the black mambas.) It always gave me some unease because I wasn't sure he recognized them in the moment but he edits his own videos, I'd hope he sees them then. He had Tom Crutchfield vouching for him though and he's the godfather of the exotic reptile industry so lots of people give him a pass (not NERD though)

Tom was actually how Tiger King started, the filmmakers were at Tom's house to shoot a similar series on the exotic reptile industry, and they got sidetracked with the exotic cat story, it was easier to sell tiger stories to investors.

The shoot Chandler was bit on was planned, they brought those snakes to that location to shoot and release it seems, and from what I heard he had been working with that snake for a while before, several hours on and off. He was attempting to get it to hood above his head so it strikes down towards his face and then you flip the snake around on your arm to get it to face the camera and you get a perspective shift in the shot making the snake look bigger for the photo (or in this case the thumbnail)

He just got too comfortable too quick. He is good friends with a lot of free handlers too and defends the practice in the hobby at least to this point, it will be interesting to see how that changes.

The end of the video where he's reiterating its a learning experience because of his ongoing sort of feud between the social manager for New England Reptile Distributors (NERD) and himself (along with their stans) and he knows that Florida Fish and Wildlife will be factoring that into his license renewals and future investigations if something like this happens at his facility.

I do think this rapid succession with the croc bite, which was investigate by FFW, and this will help temper his zeal, venomous bites tend to do that more than a physical injury though, I've seen it with a lot of people who keep venomous animals.

It can be incredibly safe to keep these animals it just doesn't look interesting enough to 2 million subscribers...

 

[deleted1323557]

What other Florida guy?

I think he's talking about Chris. You can swim with Casper too, theres just a super thin net between you and Casper if you go in with them.

 

[jkc]

Something maybe too personal for this but I have a decent amount of experience with exotics and have my venom certs from a few states and his handling of all animals is very much show driven, designed to sell a show. In doing that, you get near misses, and he's had a LOT more than have been publicized, and many of them he doesn't recognize on camera even though they were published in the videos (especially with Kevin and the black mambas.) It always gave me some unease because I wasn't sure he recognized them in the moment but he edits his own videos, I'd hope he sees them then. He had Tom Crutchfield vouching for him though and he's the godfather of the exotic reptile industry so lots of people give him a pass (not NERD though)

Tom was actually how Tiger King started, the filmmakers were at Tom's house to shoot a similar series on the exotic reptile industry, and they got sidetracked with the exotic cat story, it was easier to sell tiger stories to investors.

The shoot Chandler was bit on was planned, they brought those snakes to that location to shoot and release it seems, and from what I heard he had been working with that snake for a while before, several hours on and off. He was attempting to get it to hood above his head so it strikes down towards his face and then you flip the snake around on your arm to get it to face the camera and you get a perspective shift in the shot making the snake look bigger for the photo (or in this case the thumbnail)

He just got too comfortable too quick. He is good friends with a lot of free handlers too and defends the practice in the hobby at least to this point, it will be interesting to see how that changes.

The end of the video where he's reiterating its a learning experience because of his ongoing sort of feud between the social manager for New England Reptile Distributors (NERD) and himself (along with their stans) and he knows that Florida Fish and Wildlife will be factoring that into his license renewals and future investigations if something like this happens at his facility.

I do think this rapid succession with the croc bite, which was investigate by FFW, and this will help temper his zeal, venomous bites tend to do that more than a physical injury though, I've seen it with a lot of people who keep venomous animals.

It can be incredibly safe to keep these animals it just doesn't look interesting enough to 2 million subscribers...

Thanks for that insightful reply. I had a feeling that those snakes weren't found in the wild because all four of them were in that concentrated area, but wasn't entirely sure what the deal was.

I get that he's built his life around these animals, and that he genuinely loves what he does, and I wouldn't want him to stop outright, but I really don't want to hear that he's had a fatal accident.

I think he's talking about Chris. You can swim with Casper too, theres just a super thin net between you and Casper if you go in with them.

Chris is super hot.

 

[danigreenies99]

Oh my goodness his ears

 

[deleted1323557]

Oh my goodness his ears

They can be a bit of a jump scare with the hat on.

I kinda like it.

 

[YeetusMyMeatus]

Thanks for that insightful reply. I had a feeling that those snakes weren't found in the wild because all four of them were in that concentrated area, but wasn't entirely sure what the deal was.

I get that he's built his life around these animals, and that he genuinely loves what he does, and I wouldn't want him to stop outright, but I really don't want to hear that he's had a fatal accident.


Chris is super hot.
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When I first watched this video and he smacked the sand to get the gator to lunge for him I shreiked cause I thought he'd smacked it on the nose

 

[jkc]

I think he may have lost a bit of his finger. Looks like he's taking a step back as well. Anyone have any other information?

 

[williamsburg954]

Something maybe too personal for this but I have a decent amount of experience with exotics and have my venom certs from a few states and his handling of all animals is very much show driven, designed to sell a show. In doing that, you get near misses, and he's had a LOT more than have been publicized, and many of them he doesn't recognize on camera even though they were published in the videos (especially with Kevin and the black mambas.) It always gave me some unease because I wasn't sure he recognized them in the moment but he edits his own videos, I'd hope he sees them then. He had Tom Crutchfield vouching for him though and he's the godfather of the exotic reptile industry so lots of people give him a pass (not NERD though)

Tom was actually how Tiger King started, the filmmakers were at Tom's house to shoot a similar series on the exotic reptile industry, and they got sidetracked with the exotic cat story, it was easier to sell tiger stories to investors.

The shoot Chandler was bit on was planned, they brought those snakes to that location to shoot and release it seems, and from what I heard he had been working with that snake for a while before, several hours on and off. He was attempting to get it to hood above his head so it strikes down towards his face and then you flip the snake around on your arm to get it to face the camera and you get a perspective shift in the shot making the snake look bigger for the photo (or in this case the thumbnail)

He just got too comfortable too quick. He is good friends with a lot of free handlers too and defends the practice in the hobby at least to this point, it will be interesting to see how that changes.

The end of the video where he's reiterating its a learning experience because of his ongoing sort of feud between the social manager for New England Reptile Distributors (NERD) and himself (along with their stans) and he knows that Florida Fish and Wildlife will be factoring that into his license renewals and future investigations if something like this happens at his facility.

I do think this rapid succession with the croc bite, which was investigate by FFW, and this will help temper his zeal, venomous bites tend to do that more than a physical injury though, I've seen it with a lot of people who keep venomous animals.

It can be incredibly safe to keep these animals it just doesn't look interesting enough to 2 million subscribers...

Lately his content is essentially just him cleaning up poop, putting deadly snakes to crawl around ideally toward the camera person, and a lot of unnecessary handling and forced interaction with them.

TBH, when he got the dog, i always felt like the dog was “not very well trained/obedient” (IMO) and overall they seemed uninvested in the dog. it made me really question how he treats his animals. It always feels weird seeing him trying to communicate or “train” the gators, the owl, the camels - I question how circus-y it’s all starting to feel.

But the danger he puts himself into, and the reckless showboating are why most people follow him, right? Like I don’t go into his videos expecting expert animal handling and caretaking to be displayed, nor do really focus on what he’s teaching us

So, the podcast is a questionable move….I feel like it’ll be challenging for them to pull off. All of this is just my thoughts on the purpose of his videos these days.

 

[jkc]

If anyone's interested in seeing what his finger looked like uncensored, you can see the pic on Reddit in the first reply.

 

[YeetusMyMeatus]

Lately his content is essentially just him cleaning up poop, putting deadly snakes to crawl around ideally toward the camera person, and a lot of unnecessary handling and forced interaction with them.

TBH, when he got the dog, i always felt like the dog was “not very well trained/obedient” (IMO) and overall they seemed uninvested in the dog. it made me really question how he treats his animals. It always feels weird seeing him trying to communicate or “train” the gators, the owl, the camels - I question how circus-y it’s all starting to feel.

But the danger he puts himself into, and the reckless showboating are why most people follow him, right? Like I don’t go into his videos expecting expert animal handling and caretaking to be displayed, nor do really focus on what he’s teaching us

So, the podcast is a questionable move….I feel like it’ll be challenging for them to pull off. All of this is just my thoughts on the purpose of his videos these days.

If you want content about animals that is entertaining, informative, and done in a safe and sensible manner, Clint's Reptiles is brilliant for this.

And if you also want them to be topless, Blake's Exotic Animal Ranch.

 

[Dmatsatcf]

He can always use my fingers

 

[williamsburg954]

If you want content about animals that is entertaining, informative, and done in a safe and sensible manner, Clint's Reptiles is brilliant for this.

And if you also want them to be topless, Blake's Exotic Animal Ranch.

Tytyty!

 

[deleted1323557]

Lately his content is essentially just him cleaning up poop, putting deadly snakes to crawl around ideally toward the camera person, and a lot of unnecessary handling and forced interaction with them.

TBH, when he got the dog, i always felt like the dog was “not very well trained/obedient” (IMO) and overall they seemed uninvested in the dog. it made me really question how he treats his animals. It always feels weird seeing him trying to communicate or “train” the gators, the owl, the camels - I question how circus-y it’s all starting to feel.

But the danger he puts himself into, and the reckless showboating are why most people follow him, right? Like I don’t go into his videos expecting expert animal handling and caretaking to be displayed, nor do really focus on what he’s teaching us

So, the podcast is a questionable move….I feel like it’ll be challenging for them to pull off. All of this is just my thoughts on the purpose of his videos these days.

I think the podcast they're referring to in that is Bite Force which was in pre-production with Justin Igualada before this. That was going to be basically tales of exotic animal bites and encounters focusing on individual experiences and was going to have keepers, and industry individuals in a longform setting where theres a bigger conversation around working with the animals after because a lot of people who talk about getting bit did so as a one off and it's always very scary etc... they've shot a few of them and basically all did their episode on their own channels, so if this is an actual production run, not just a oneoff, they have 15 or so episodes just among their very narrow friend group.

To your point the content becoming repetitive it's really because his channel is fairly mature and most of the views he gets comes from older videos. This being said, they're being served because he's getting decent viewership with regularity on youtube and he's still averaging over a million views per day which is a significant revenue stream in itself, probably 5k or more per day, plus he does private tours now of his place so it's a very lucrative business from a cashflow perspective.

Also if you're into the reptiles of it Dāv Kaufman, Brian Kusko, Reptiliatis, Wickens Wicked Reptiles, Kamp Kenan, and Snake Discovery are all good non-showboat style.

The whole chandler universe sort of revolves around the alligator trade in Florida and most of his closer friends were the people who literally wrestled alligators at roadside zoos in Florida so they were also used to presenting things over and over 5, 6 times per day... it's working for him though, he's not hurting for money right now.

 

[williamsburg954]

I think the podcast they're referring to in that is Bite Force which was in pre-production with Justin Igualada before this. That was going to be basically tales of exotic animal bites and encounters focusing on individual experiences and was going to have keepers, and industry individuals in a longform setting where theres a bigger conversation around working with the animals after because a lot of people who talk about getting bit did so as a one off and it's always very scary etc... they've shot a few of them and basically all did their episode on their own channels, so if this is an actual production run, not just a oneoff, they have 15 or so episodes just among their very narrow friend group.

To your point the content becoming repetitive it's really because his channel is fairly mature and most of the views he gets comes from older videos. This being said, they're being served because he's getting decent viewership with regularity on youtube and he's still averaging over a million views per day which is a significant revenue stream in itself, probably 5k or more per day, plus he does private tours now of his place so it's a very lucrative business from a cashflow perspective.

Also if you're into the reptiles of it Dāv Kaufman, Brian Kusko, Reptiliatis, Wickens Wicked Reptiles, Kamp Kenan, and Snake Discovery are all good non-showboat style.

The whole chandler universe sort of revolves around the alligator trade in Florida and most of his closer friends were the people who literally wrestled alligators at roadside zoos in Florida so they were also used to presenting things over and over 5, 6 times per day... it's working for him though, he's not hurting for money right now.

That’s interesting about the podcast.

tbh, I’ve always wondered what their facility actually does. I’ve seen almost all of his videos but I still have no clue what the are doing. Is it a non-profit? rescue? Or like a reptile exhibit type place? A reptile zoo? The camels threw me off and the owl too lol

It doesn’t help that we rarely see other “staff” or employees there at the facilities…like is Chandler running that place?

 

[deleted1323557]

That’s interesting about the podcast.

tbh, I’ve always wondered what their facility actually does. I’ve seen almost all of his videos but I still have no clue what the are doing. Is it a non-profit? rescue? Or like a reptile exhibit type place? A reptile zoo? The camels threw me off and the owl too lol

It doesn’t help that we rarely see other “staff” or employees there at the facilities…like is Chandler running that place?

It is his house and private facility. Florida and Texas are very lax on their private zoological display and basically anything you can legally own you can charge to see. He has a rough tour outline Chandler's Wild World Tour!

He doesn't have any full time employees so technically it is a staff of one, but he has his friends help him film and they take on apprentices that need hours (several hundred per class of reptile) to get their venom certs for private ownership, so they get them to clean the cages for their hours and will sometimes give them some cash for doing it. All the animals he has you can privately purchase and own in Florida mostly without a tremendous amount of regulation, I think the only special permitting you need are your venom hours to purchase own and transport medically significant venomous snakes.

He's mostly a youtuber though, an entertainer and he gets his views talking about his pets, but he also knows calling them pets is not well received when your audience is primarily young people. Almost all of his revenue is from the youtube channel ad revenue, I'd say probably well over 95% Cobras, close calls, croc attacks I hate to say it but they're making him a lot of money.

 

[NCstateGuy04]

I think there is something there!

 

[Efftee]

I think there is something there!

My face would be in his lap during every ride.

 

[PGTE]

what's up with him? needs time to process what happened? and where is that podcast he keeps promising?