DARING wrangler Danielle Wall has given up 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 into referred to as the Snake Lady of Joshua Tree.
She volunteers rescuing lethal rattlesnakes from individuals’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 consistently requested to start out an OnlyFans web page by randy followers.
Danielle grew up simply north of San Francisco in Rohnert Park, and mixed modelling with tutoring college youngsters 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 dwell within the small city of Landers within the Mojave Desert.
She informed The U.S. Sun that she acquired into wrangling randomly after she almost ran a rattlesnake over in 2018.
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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 offer 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 start out wrangling, Danielle’s first job got here after she noticed somebody submit on Facebook a few 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 tips on how to keep protected whereas coping with venomous snakes.
She says that regardless of having no assist or steering and regardless of the dangers she realized by “trial and error” utilizing a 4ft pole.
Danielle made individuals conscious of her providers by posting about her adventures on-line and within the first 12 months acquired about 50 calls.
The following 12 months it went as much as 180 after which skyrocketed to round 400 in 2020 when individuals have been caught at home throughout Covid and encountering extra snakes.
Since she doesn’t cost and solely receives suggestions for the snake work, Danielle holds fundraisers, works on movie units as a snake skilled and in addition 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 right down to individuals 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 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 courting 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 exhibiting no worry doing the job, Danielle admits she’ll must get to the hospital fast if she’s ever bitten.
Carrying antidote just isn’t 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.”
