Shed snake skin evaluations to determine if a shed snake skin is from a venomous North American snake.  The pattern, type and configurations of scales of shed snake skins are as unique and distinctive as finger prints are from humans.  If you have found an intact/complete shed snake skin and wish to know if it is from a venomous snake, then please use the following steps to get the skin to us for an evaluation.

  Step 1: Place shed skin in a zip-lock or plastic bag.

  Step 2: On a 3 x 5 card, please include the following; your name, your mailing address, telephone area code and both  home and work telephone numbers and where the shed skin was found.  Place this information in the bag containing the shed snake skin.

  Step 3: Include payment with shipment. Use the US Post Office to ship to our PO Box.  Cost of service is just $25.00 for the first skin and $10.00 for every additional skin included in the shipment.   For all checks and money orders, please make payable to Snake Removal, Inc. ®_™.  VISA and MASTERCARD payment information should include your name as it appears on the card, card number and expiration date.

If you have a dead snake, but no shed skin and have access to a photocopy machine, place the snake on the glass plate (belly side down).  Send copy to our home office using the same procedure outlined above for the shipment of shed snake skin.  The cost is the same as a shed snake skin evaluation.  If you can make a copy of a dorsal view (back of the snake) then that would be very helpful too.

Please ship only intact shed skins or clean copies of snakes.  Upon the receipt of your package, we will perform our evaluation to determine if the shed snake skin is from a venomous North American snake.  If the skin is from a venomous North American snake, then you will be called alerting you as to the specific nature of our findings.  You will also receive a written statement of our findings as well.  All non-venomous North American snake results will be mailed out to you.  Note: Do NOT ship snake bodies, carcasses or live snakes in the mail!  Strolling into a copy store with a snake, is behavior we strongly discourage, as it may not be in your best interest.

Mailing address:

®_™Snake Removal, INC. 

PO Box 914

Galesburg, IL 61402-0914