High Desert Reptile & Pet Expo comes to Victorville in December
If you’re Indiana Jones, you might not want to attend the High Desert Reptile & Pet Expo, which will include plenty of snakes, lizards, frogs, tarantulas and other crawly things.
The two-day event, beginning on Dec. 3 at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds in Victorville, will include some of the country’s top animal breeders and specialists.
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Presented by the Central Valley Reptile & Pet Expo group, plenty of reptile vendors and animal shelters will introduce visitors to one or more potential scaly or furry family members.
There will be animal presentations where visitors can interact with a large snake, primates, or an alligator. The All About Monkeys show includes a baboon, a Capuchin monkey and other primate entertainers.
The expo will also have vendors and exhibitors offering deals on pet food, enclosure, supplies and more. Some of them include the following:
Cactus Feed & Supply
Hesperia Zoo
Kahoots Feed & Pet
Kong pet products
Penny Pet
Victor Pet Food
818 Reptiles
American Balls
Boiyos Exotics
Bug Cage Co
Chameleons 101
Chameleon House
Dark Cloud Reptiles
Fork Tongue Farm
Q Reptile Depot
Good Life Geckos
JFK Dragons
Layne Labs
LLL Reptile
Mesozoic Reptiles
MyTay Exotics
Micro Wilderness
Morph Galaxy Geckos
Mystic Butterflies
Mystic Candles
Nemesis Reptiles
Pokey’s Geckos
Project Reptile
Reptile Den
Reptile Factory
Reptile Makers
RnR Branches
ROG Reptiles
Scott Austin Reptiles
SG Snakes
Snakeful Grace
So Cal Herp & Rescue Assn
Southern CA Carnivorous Plant Assn
Spyder Collector
The Creeper Keeper
The Lucky Cuy
The Reptile Shop
The Spider Room
Tim’s Dart Frogs
Top Notch Exotic Reptiles
Top Notch Exotics
Upscale Xotics
West Coast Chameleon Brothers
Zoo Med Laboratories
Popular reptile pets
In no particular order, these are the top 10 most popular reptiles kept as pets in the United States, as reported by Paw Tracks.
Leopard gecko
Corn snake
Bearded dragon
African sulcata tortoise
Ball python
Red-eared slider turtle
Chameleon
Blue-tongued skink
Crested gecko
Eastern box turtle
The San Bernardino County Fairgrounds is at 14800 Seventh Street in Victorville.
For general information, expo event times, or to purchase tickets, visit centralvalleyreptileexpo.com.
Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227 or RDeLaCruz@VVDailyPress.com. Follow him on Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.
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