06/02/2022
First, thank you to everyone who followed, emailed, texted or reached out to the Zoo this year. If you didn’t receive a response, please accept an apology as the last few years, and recent months, have been extremely taxing. TRZ’s time prioritized reptile care.
Please accept this post as a status update of the Zoo, which is long overdue.
Pre-2020: Animal stolen and a few fatalities due to forbidden feeding by guests (devastating)
2020: Covid shutdown with no financial assistance.
2021: Winter storm severely damaged buildings with large financial implications.
2022: Further storm damage and decay with increased repair costs.
Operating TRZ requires a massive amount of work and cost. The Exhibition methods used at TRZ, which included as natural a display as possible for the reptiles, coupled with the encumbered costs, far outweighed what the public was able to pay for admission. Adding to the aforementioned losses, the costs to repair and replace infrastructure to be suitable for guests have continued to increase on an upward slope.
Therefore, in the meantime, to earn revenue for operating costs, the Zoo will be concentrating on propagation and media.
All we ask our fans and potential guests is that you please watch, like and subscribe to our social media. Especially YouTube, where videos of the reptiles will be shared. Please watch and share as much as possible at this time. Its free for you and will help us.
We will be providing more online content and YouTube videos in an effort to continue in our mission to provide reptile education and information while trying to earn advertising revenue.
(And if anyone at Tesla can throw us a powerwall, that would be extremely helpful to our reptiles at this time as our existing solar batteries are no longer viable.)
Thank you for your interest and following. Hope to have future positive news, please stay tuned for announcements and TRZ updates.
Texas Reptile Zoo
This video is about egyptian uro