Rainham Cold Blooded Sanctuary Pics

[foggy01.1983]

Originally Posted by steve d

glad to see my old anaconda and alligator are doin well saves me taking a trip down there cheers

All the reptiles there are doing extremely well especially the anaconda its absolutely huge LOL

Originally Posted by Grond

Nice pics Steve!

The annaconda is stunning!

Thanks I'm glad the photos turned up ok as i used my Nokia N95 LOL

Originally Posted by Jack W

Great animals, I gota get down there. I have wanted to for a while now. What species were the crocs? The conda looks brilliant.

They were Nile crocs and American alligators I think but thats all I can remember of what they were LOL

[steve d]

the left alli looks like the one i sold to them and the anaconda looks exactly the same size and length as when i sold her to them they look great glad to see them thriveing and the other croc does look like a nile

[I love tortioes]

could some give me the address and openin times for sanctuary as i been to the shop and would love to go to the sanctuary

[ryanr1987]

loving the retic and anaconda great pics too thinking of taking a trip down there soon 2quid is a bargin

[foggy01.1983]

Originally Posted by I love tortioes

could some give me the address and openin times for sanctuary as i been to the shop and would love to go to the sanctuary

Their web site is

Cold Blooded

That shows their addy and phone number.

The reptile sanctuary is 5 minutes walk from the shop and open only at weekends unless you prearrange it with them before hand for week days.

Steve

[Dave-Flames]

Originally Posted by ryanr1987

loving the retic and anaconda great pics too thinking of taking a trip down there soon 2quid is a bargin

As nice as it is and as cheap as it is they either need raise the price ten fold or get 200% more people in. Sadly the place is not surviving and losing a decent amount of money each week.

[rachel132002]

Always positive eh Dave?!

It was never designed for "profit" like a shop was, obviously making money is good but a SHOP is made for profit and they have that.

Anyhoo, nice pics and one day i'll get a weekend day off work and might actually get there myself but for now i'll just stick to the shop on a friday afternoon.

[foggy01.1983]

Originally Posted by Dave-Flames

As nice as it is and as cheap as it is they either need raise the price ten fold or get 200% more people in. Sadly the place is not surviving and losing a decent amount of money each week.

Yes running costs are around £1000 per week!!! and even with the volume of people they get there its around £300 per week taken from donations.

That means roughly a £700 loss. Im just glad that the people who own it are doing it for their love of reptiles and not to rake in millions

They are looking in to giving guided tours to schools soon though to help raise some money.

The other main thing they have going on is a breeding program.
That I would have loved to have seen but obviously you cant.

[Dave-Flames]

Originally Posted by rachel132002

Always positive eh Dave?!

It was never designed for "profit" like a shop was, obviously making money is good but a SHOP is made for profit and they have that.

Anyhoo, nice pics and one day i'll get a weekend day off work and might actually get there myself but for now i'll just stick to the shop on a friday afternoon.

I know it was never to make money. But you can't have something like that when it's losing money. Hopefully they will make it through and next year with all the breeding plans it will make it worthwhile. At the end of the day noone can afford to lose that kind of money each week no matter how much money the shop takes.

[BexyBabes]

Originally Posted by ryanr1987

loving the retic and anaconda great pics too thinking of taking a trip down there soon 2quid is a bargin

let me no if u ever come up i will drag the other half along and we can meet up....