Hi Wilomn

The Ratsnake Foundation was formed in January 2007, we are an online herpetological society for enthusiasts of Ratsnake & Related genera (a non-profit organisation, we donate any monies made, over and above our running costs to a ‘Ratsnake Conservation’ project each year, this year we donated to Project Zamenis, a conservation project to protect Zamenis longissimus (Aesculapian Snake) in the Czech Republic via continued study and habitat maintenance. This is our secondary objective, our primary one is to form an ever growing body of research material for interested parties (largely hobbyist) by accumulating data via our applications, articles and forums.


The answers from this particular survey will hopefully give a general overview of the hobby worldwide, across different continents, cultures and age groups. It may also reveal some interesting trends within the hobby. Other surveys will be added to the application, that are more specific in their topics e.g.: quarantine procedures, incubation methods etc.

The purpose of the surveys is mainly to gather data for analysis. We feel that the results will be of interest to other hobbyists, as well as breeders, retail outlets, manufacturers and in some instances (depending on subject matter) scientists etc.

It will be freely available on our site for anyone to view and made available to any herpetological society to publish in their newsletter/journal. We are in the process of contacting other societies to publish our request for participation in the surveys, until they actually publish our request it is impossible for us to say who they are, as we are only just getting started in rolling out this project. We will, however be listing them on the front page of the survey when they do respond.

There is nothing sinister in our request, no information will be sold or bartered for. The survey is completely anonymous, no personal/identifying information is asked for. A lot of people who have taken the survey have enjoyed doing so and commented how interesting they thought it was and looking forward to sharing the results.