Live Reptiles at the Museum

The Dubois County Museum welcomes Blake Buechlein of the Jasper Reptile Center, on Sunday, December 16, at 1:30pm. He will bring live reptiles, including his collection of snakes, lizards, tortoises and turtles. It will be a fascinating show!

Blake Buechlein started the Jasper Reptile Center back in 2001 and it is primarily a reptile rescue.  He takes in unwanted reptile pets and removes wild reptiles from people’s homes.  He funds the rescue by doing the reptile shows and selling reptile supplies.

Some years ago an alligator was discovered in the Patoka River by some fishermen. Blake was called and immediately tracked down the gentleman for the location. After a couple of weeks of unsuccessful attempts to catch it, he finally got his chance to get close enough to net it out of the water. Over the years he has heard several stories as to how it got there.  The one he believes is that someone brought it back from Florida and decided they didn’t want it anymore so they turned it loose in the river one day while on a fishing trip. This alligator has recently passed away, as well as, another alligator that he had for 16 years.

There are several ways people can contact Blake if they are in need of his services. Contact him at his website JasperReptileCenter.com, his Facebook page (Jasper Reptile Center), or his phone number at 812-309-1663.