Quote Originally Posted by SonoranSerpentS View Post
I might actually consider going out to look for wild gophers one day. I recently bought my first El Paso locale sonoran gopher from Joseph of GopherYourPet based in Houston, Texas, and I've already fallen in love with the subspecies. I want to one day start a breeding group of sonorans but I'm wondering how I should go about this, considering captive sonoran gophers vary in their specific locales. I've never bred snakes and I've only gone herping a couple of times and I've yet to encounter anything outside of rattlesnakes here. Not sure if I should spend some more money and time on buying more captive bred sonorans with different genes / from different areas, or if I should figure out how to get some wild snakes from Arizona myself.
It's a lot of fun. I am from AZ and caught many a gopher when I lived there. I was up in Prescott and ran in to them at least twice a week during the warm seasons. Look in to a permit if you want to catch, keep, and breed.

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