Services We Offer

Rescue and Rehabilitation: 

We will accept all manner of Invertebrates regardless of condition.  We will work to nurse any sick or malnourished creature back to proper health and endeavor to have the animal available for adoption with a reliable and experienced caretaker.  All animals will be received and quarantined while we review their health issues and behavior.  A individualized care regimen will be given to each animal until we can prove that the animal is healthy and can be adopted or where possible in communal inverts, can be placed with others of its like kind.

All Invertebrates that are considered to be “Medically Significant” (That is, they contain venom that could potentially cause a human fatality) will first be checked with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Sherrif’s office to ensure they can be kept within the state of Oregon .  If they cannot, they will be remanded to the proper authorities.  We will however work with all local authorities to ensure their proper care and continued life either through a transfer to a licensed zoological care facility or an entomological care facility for medically significant animals.  This rule will also apply to any inverts found to be trafficked illegally in the state of Oregon .  We can and will always work with law enforcement when applicable.

Adoption:

We will endeavor to take all inverts as humanly possible, rehabilitate them, and set them up for adoption with local and knowledgeable care providers.  Where we feel that certain inverts cannot be rehabilitated for proper home pet care, we will ensure their proper care in our own loving home.  

Medically Significant animals will be remanded to licensed Zoological or Entemological agencies to ensure their long life and proper care with another educational agency.  Our provision is that these animals be given proper respect and care, never to be used for medical experimentation or research except in those agencies researching the properties of certain venoms for cancer or other medical research.  They have shown that proper care of the animal means a continued supply of venom for medical research and therefore never subjected to procedures that would permanently harm the animal.  

Conservation:

As part of our commitment to conserving the environment, we are firm believers in endorsing captive breeding programs for all invertebrates.  We fully endorse whenever possible those captive breeders that also return a portion of their stock to re-populate the native environments from where the animal originated.  We can and  will accept those animals that were wild caught and imported into the Pacific Northwest but will work with local law enforcement and the Department of Fish and Wildlife to ensure they are returned to their proper habitat whenever humanly possible.   As well as those Invertebrates that were illegally collected from within the Pacific Northwest region.  All animals, no matter how strange or unusual need to be preserved.

Education:

Whenever possible, we will work with the Oregon Herpetological Society or with other education organizations to provide demonstrations of the animals under our care.  We believe very strongly in animal preservation and respect of these animals.  We understand that many do not share our passion and love for these animals.  However, while we do understand the fear that comes from these fascinating and different animals, the first step in alleviating fear of something is to learn more about them.  We are available for classroom demonstrations, church demonstrations, children’s celebrations, and a host of other events.  Please e-mail for further information and bookings.

No HOT or medically significant invert will be shown at a demonstration without prior notice and approval by event coordinators.  Local law enforcement will be advised should the nature of the event warrant it.