ABOUT US
 


Married Halloween 1995


 
 
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves... My name is Matthew Murphy, a.k.a. Foxglove Goldenleaf. My beautiful wife Donna & I both live tucked away in the Rocky Mountains of SE Idaho. We started the Serpent's Tongue snake adoption in the summer of 1997 & took it online in 1998 so that we could help people adopt snakes nationwide.  Countless individuals rescue or adopt herps each year around the world (You know who you are!!!) and we just wanted to help out and try to help connect some of the many that need it.


Donna & Old Man Hades


 
 
So how did we get to this point in our lives?  Donna was born in sunny CA in 1964 and went on to live most of her life in Sin City, NV. Well, despite the bright lights of the big city she never lost her love of animals and moved up here to experience the Idaho wildlife where she ran into me and began a personal 6 year love affair with snakes!


Apep loses a game of Hangman


 
 
And me? Well, I was born here in Idaho in 1972 and have had an intense love for all things scaley for as long as I can remember. I started out light with garters and racers, just a little taste you know. But soon the little colubrids just weren't enough. I moved on to a rainbow boa at 14 and soon had pythons and boas of several varieties (Thanks Mum). I thought I had it bad before, but now that Donna and I are together the problem has become quite the collection! We are sitting on over 30 right now and love to spend our free time sharing them with elementary students and the local zoos. Snakes are our lives now and Donna will soon be off to Veterinary school with any luck and I will be back to school again to complete my degree and pursue the study of scaley things full time. In the meantime I am happily managing a couple of Coffee shops to put the missus through school (she would kill me if she knew that I called her "the missus", hehehe, good thing she is afraid of computers!).

Thanks for stopping in and hope that you enjoy the site!