What's it like being a popular Reptile YouTuber? Breeding Cat Geckos & MORE! | Emma Sampson

Emma Sampson is a popular Canadian Reptile YouTuber with over 100k subscribers and an animal educator. In this episode, Emma tells us about her cross-country move from Ottawa to Nova Scotia with over 50 reptiles in tow. We discuss what life is like as a reptile-related content creator and Emma also tells us about her new animal education and virtual zoo business venture. Emma fills us in on her cat gecko and Parson's chameleon breeding projects too!

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0:00 Coming Up
1:18 Guest Introduction
2:40 Housekeeping
4:23 Welcome Emma / Cross Country Move?
11:25 What got you into reptiles?
16:13 YouTube Channel / Rise of Pet Tube
28:50 Zoo Keeping at Little Ray's
31:50 What Species do you keep?
35:31 Keeping and Breeding Cat Geckos
52:50 Keeping and Breeding Parson's Chameleons
1:06:18 Future Education and Virtual Zoo Business
1:14:14 Closing Thoughts
1:15:04 Outro

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Welcome to my channel, Animals at Home! Here you will find the reptile videos I have made as well as video versions of The Animals at Home Podcast! The podcast mainly focuses on the pet reptile industry. My mission with Animals at Home is simple: To inspire others to push the limits of their reptile husbandry by promoting the importance of high-level, creative husbandry individualized for each reptile.

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