New snake day!

[SonoranSerpentS]

I'm not from AZ, but you'd want to find out your local regs on catching or keeping native snakes...it might be better (easier for you) if you don't have local natives that
you have to account for, depending on your Fish & Game laws there. Just saying...especially if you are thinking about breeding &/or selling any. Always best to stay on
the right side of F & G regs.

Yeah If I ever went into this I would definitely check in and make all of the proper preparations to do things legally. I'm pretty sure gophers are still legal to collect in state under a certain limit, however, I'm still on the side of keeping captive bred only snakes just because I don't want to risk potentially bringing in diseases into my collection.