DARING wrangler Danielle Wall has given up the town rat race for a desert snake chase.
The heavily-tattooed magnificence, 29, swapped the Bay Area and life as a lingerie mannequin to turn out to be often known as the Snake Lady of Joshua Tree.
She volunteers rescuing lethal rattlesnakes from folks’s properties and releasing them again into the wild within the California desert.
Last 12 months Danielle efficiently moved 257 of the critters by herself – and she or he’s proud she’s by no means been bitten as soon as since beginning 5 years in the past regardless of being self-taught.
Danielle stands out for the attractive outfits she wears whereas doing her harmful work, describing herself as a “cowboy boots, booty shorts, crop top kinda gal”.
She says that if she had a greenback for each lewd joke males inform her whereas she’s saving snakes she’d have greater than sufficient money to retire.
And she is continually requested to begin an OnlyFollowers web page by randy followers.
Danielle grew up simply north of San Francisco in Rohnert Park, and mixed modelling with tutoring faculty children and different jobs in her late teenagers and early twenties.
But she had household roots within the Joshua Tree space and after deciding metropolis life wasn’t for her, she relocated to stay within the small city of Landers within the Mojave Desert.
She informed The U.S. Sun that she received into wrangling randomly after she almost ran a rattlesnake over in 2018.
Danielle stated, “I didn’t want it to die in the road so I pulled over.
“It went between the tires and it didn’t move because that’s what they do.
“I got out, grabbed a stick, poked it and it took off and I thought ‘Well, that was f***ing easy. What’s the big deal?’
“So I looked up the rattlesnake protocol in the community and I found out that animal control just goes down and chops their heads off.
“It’s the most inhumane way to put down a rattlesnake because they can feel pain for hours after being decapitated.
“I think snakes are nice and just misunderstood, and it sucks to be misunderstood.”
After discovering out that there have been no wranglers, paid or in any other case, within the space Danielle determined to present it a attempt.
“I figured no one is going to pay anyone to move a snake but I thought ‘F**k it, I’m bored’,” she stated.
“When I was modelling it was mainly lingerie, bikinis and corsets.
“I was one inch away from the world record for a cinched waist without removing a rib.
“But it was never really my passion and after I got into this, the modeling dwindled because everything became about snakes.”
Looking for her alternative to begin wrangling, Danielle’s first job got here after she noticed somebody publish on Facebook a couple of rattlesnake at their property.
She wrote again: “Hey, I’ve got a stick and a bucket, give me a chance.”
After that, she purchased correct instruments for the job and began educating herself the way to keep protected whereas coping with venomous snakes.
She says that regardless of having no assist or steering and regardless of the dangers she discovered by “trial and error” utilizing a 4ft pole.
Danielle made folks conscious of her companies by posting about her adventures on-line and within the first 12 months obtained about 50 calls.
The following 12 months it went as much as 180 after which skyrocketed to round 400 in 2020 when folks have been caught at home throughout Covid and encountering extra snakes.
Since she doesn’t cost and solely receives ideas for the snake work, Danielle holds fundraisers, works on movie units as a snake skilled and likewise does cleansing jobs to get by.
If I had a greenback for each penis joke I hear as a feminine snake wrangler I’d be a millionaire by now.
Danielle Wall
She places her wrangling success all the way down to folks seeing that she was “moving them right, catching them right and following the laws”.
“I had to prove myself and the fact that I lose thousands of dollars a year shows I’m not in it for the money,” Danielle stated.
“Half the people don’t even throw me $5 for gas for helping them.
“When you deal with an animal people don’t like, most people aren’t going to put any effort into saving it.
“It’s the rich assholes who don’t tip me and the people in trailers try to give me a 50.”
Breaking into the male-dominated world of snakes as a petite young lady wasn’t straightforward both.
Danielle claims snake professionals would inform her “Sit down little girl, let us handle it, you’re going to get bit” and she or he obtained nothing however pushback and threats in the course of the first two years.
“People said stuff like ‘You’re a child murderer because that snake you moved will bite a child and you’ll go to hell’,” she defined.
“And if I had a dollar for every penis joke I hear as a female snake wrangler I’d be a millionaire by now.
“I don’t even look at the DMs anymore.
“People constantly ask me when I’m going to have an OnlyFans. The joke is that it would be Only Fangs – just me, boobs and snakes. But that’s never going to happen.
“My rule is if I’m too ashamed to show my grandfather, I’m not doing it.”
Danielle stated that the toughest a part of the job is the dearth of routine as she will get calls always of the day and night time.
“I’ll get calls from people doing mushrooms at midnight, partying, and then… I get the 3.30am Olympic runner who got up really early and found one,” she defined.
“I’ve left my birthday party five years in a row.”
She additionally struggles on the relationship scene due to her chosen career, saying: “A lot of people don’t like snakes and a lot of men are intimidated by me.”
Despite displaying no concern doing the job, Danielle admits she’ll have to get to the hospital fast if she’s ever bitten.
Carrying antidote shouldn’t be medically potential as its IV-administered following a blood panel and prices $5,000 a vial.
But Danielle insists that the one protecting gear she wants for wrangling are her boots.
She joked, “I’m a cowboy boots, booty shorts, top crop kinda gal.
“The snakes don’t mind it and I’ve even done it naked.
“People ask me why I don’t wear more protective gear but if you know what you’re doing and you have the right tools it doesn’t matter what you’re wearing.”
