Hello Kritter’s Facebook fans! As promised, we have a total of twelve tee-shirts that we’re giving away as a special thanks for participating in our February giveaway. We asked: what snake and reptile shows should Kritter’s Crumble hit up this year? And, boy, did you fill us in. From Pennsylvania and Florida to California [...]]]>

Hello Kritter’s Facebook fans! As promised, we have a total of twelve tee-shirts that we’re giving away as a special thanks for participating in our February giveaway. We asked: what snake and reptile shows should Kritter’s Crumble hit up this year? And, boy, did you fill us in. From Pennsylvania and Florida to California and Utah (let’s not forget Illinois and Indiana in between), you’ve provided us with a big agenda to fill. We promise to keep you posted on our itinerary and hope to see you in the coming year!

Meanwhile, our tee-shirts are going to…(psst, be on the lookout for an email from us in your Facebook inbox):

1. James P. Leary

2. Lisa Morgan

3. Chris Ray

4. Mike Donathan

5. Brenna Costello

6. Richard McCray

7. Seth Mcdermit

8. Kamela Popiwczak

9. Brandon Collins

10. Lindsey Johnson

11. Anthony Jordan

12. Tony Yates

May you all wear ‘em loud and wear ‘em proud!

Thanks to everyone for your support. And stay tuned for news on next month’s giveaway!

She had this to say [...]]]> The following is a product testimonial from the week two winner of our giveaway with SnakeBytesTV. As you’ll recall, Sarah won the photo contest component of the competition with her road runner!

She had this to say about Kritter’s Crumble on our Facebook page:

Received the first shipment of Kritter’s Crumble from week 2 of your giveaway and figured I’d post a quick review!

First off, great packaging. Nice little spout designed for pouring. Compared to the cypress we have been using, it is obvious even from the exterior that this product is made for pets. The Coarse is the one we used right away (you see our Super Pastel female in that), great size and consistency for a reptile bedding. The things most surprising to me are it’s odor absorption and mold resistance. I have yet to put it into a really long use cycle (looking forward to it!), but it has a remarkable lack of odor, even after a few snake excretions, and has not shown even the slightest signs of molding in just over a week.

The Fine version is ground to basically a powder or dust form, we’ll be trying it out in more limited fashion with our colubrids and African Soft Fur rats. I’ll be interested to discover if the odor absorbing I see with my Pythons/Boas functions as well with the rodents. It will be a great consistency for them, although it’s moisture holding that helps make it so appealing for tropical exotics will not be necessary in the case of the rats or dry climate colubrids.

Here’s what I mean.

Generally speaking, a newborn baby starts of [...]]]> Someone recently asked me, what is the best way to house an Australian baby python from a hatchling stage and onwards to an adult snake? As a father of two boys, my instant response was, “it’s like bringing home a newborn baby from hospital!”

Here’s what I mean.

Generally speaking, a newborn baby starts of in a basinet, then progresses into a cot. Next a single bed and finally a double bed once they become an adult.

I’m going to talk about the first two stages here: progressing from the basinet to the cot.

Stage 1:
After hatching, move the python into a plastic takeaway container, a.k.a. your basinet. Ensure each container has sufficient air holes for ventilation and a small water bowl.

Win this look!

Hey everyone! We’ve gotten lots of requests for the t-shirts and caps worn by Brian and his crew during our SnakeBytesTV promotion. Now here’s your chance to get your hands on one of our limited edition tees. Here’s how:

1.) Contest runs January 23rd – [...]]]>

Win this look!

Hey everyone! We’ve gotten lots of requests for the t-shirts and caps worn by Brian and his crew during our SnakeBytesTV promotion. Now here’s your chance to get your hands on one of our limited edition tees. Here’s how:

1.) Contest runs January 23rd – February 14th.

2.) “Like” us on Facebook, if you haven’t already.

3.) Answer this question, either in the comments below or on our Facebook wall:

What snake and reptile shows should Kritter’s Crumble hit up this year? Bonus question: are you planning on being there?

The reason for this contest is that we’ve had such a good time connecting with all of you on Facebook and would love to meet you face-to-face in your “natural” environs! We’ll be randomly giving away a total of 12 t-shirts to those that enter per our guidelines. Odds are good that you’ll be sporting one by Valentine’s Day.

*For those of you on Twitter, we’re doing a bonus giveaway of Kritter’s Crumble hats via @kritterstweets. The same rules apply:

1.)  Contest runs January 23rd – February 14th.

2.) Follow us on Twitter, if you haven’t already.

3.) Tweet your answer to the questions above using the hashtag #kritterscap.

Thanks everyone for your support!

- Kritter’s

There were 87 votes on Facebook, which we used as our baseline to determine a percentage. Someone got, say, 20 votes; they took 23% of [...]]]> We tallied up the votes on both Facebook and here on our site and calculated the winner. Some of you asked how votes would be tabulated….here’s how we did it:

There were 87 votes on Facebook, which we used as our baseline to determine a percentage. Someone got, say, 20 votes; they took 23% of the vote (after rounding to the nearest number). Here on KrittersCrumble.com we got over 4,700 votes! PollDaddy, which we used for voting, does the percentage for us. Thank PollDaddy for small favors.

So we just added that to our FB percentage, took the average, yada yada yada…we have a winner.

The results are:

Brydan Kelly: 12%
KhaySyn Harvey: 11%
Jesse Smith: 1%
Andy Rea: 2%
Sarah Rhodes: 38%
Brenna Costello: 21%
Charles Freygod: 4%
Joshua French: 10%

Wait, Sarah Rhodes at 38%. Heck yeah, we have a winner! 

Sarah, watch your Facebook inbox. A member from our team will reach out to you via their personal account to arrange getting your prize to you! 

A big special thanks to everyone for participating! Sign up for our mailing list for future giveaways. Until then, remember we’ve still got two weeks to go in our massive contest with SnakeBytesTV.   

We’re closing out week two of our giveaway with SnakebytesTV! It was a phenomenal success. We had snakes, lizards, mantises…oh my. Did you guys deliver or what??!!

We are having a tremendously difficult time choosing the winner (you don’t even know!). Earlier this week on Facebook, we promised to post our top [...]]]>

We’re closing out week two of our giveaway with SnakebytesTV! It was a phenomenal success. We had snakes, lizards, mantises…oh my. Did you guys deliver or what??!!

We are having a tremendously difficult time choosing the winner (you don’t even know!). Earlier this week on Facebook, we promised to post our top three favorites, which quickly changed to five and is now 7 8. So here we are…our 7 8 top pics and we’re leaving it up to you to select the winner. You have until Monday, January 2nd at 7 a.m. to vote!

As I’m not able to post pics in a Facebook poll, check out the photos here and then go onto Facebook to select your choice (listed by name only). You can always vote here, too! Scroll down to cast yours…

In no particular order, our top 8 finalists are…

1.) Brydan Allen

“Claudia the ghost reverse stripe leopard gecko hopes to one day guest star on SnakeBytesTV and be the mascot for Kritter’s Crumble!”

2.) KhaySyn Harvey

“ME AND BINKY…ONE OF MY MANY CHILDREN”

3.) Jesse Smith

“This is Rex doing a sexy pose on the side of her old cage!!!”

4.) Andy Rea

“My Amazon Tree Boa named Cali getting her sun tan.”

5.) Sarah Rhodes

“Wesley, out for one of the weekly walks I used to take him around the neighborhood on.”

6.) Brenna Costello

“This is my Mojave Ball python Milo, he was exploring the living room table and was quite curious about outside.”

7.) Charles Freygod

“My future bumblebee parents!!!”

AMENDED! Almost forgot this one!

8.) Joshua French

“My Blue Tongue Skink giving a big yawn in the morning. I think she’s got a little bed head.”