Entrepreneur Fills Niche As Bug, Rodent Rancher
Anchorage Daily News:
In mid-Spenard, in a tiny house the color of salmon roe, sit racks of trays and 30-gallon barrels crawling with crickets, mealworms and mice.
A little shop of horrors to the warm- blooded of the species. A gourmet buffet to those whose blood runs cold.
This is the Alaskan Reptile and Cricket Ranch, Dianna Smith, proprietor.
It’s no picnic being a bug and rodent rancher. Smith has hundreds of thousands of worms and bugs to tend to. Plus, she just got a shipment of 748 mice, and they are some righteous breeding, eating and excreting machines. Chores keep her busy seven days a week. Filling feed troughs, cleaning pens, launching the occasional escapee roundup.
Smith wants her charges healthy and happy, even though they’re destined to be lunch. No, especially because they’re destined to be lunch. People’s pets depend on them — snakes, lizards, frogs and birds in particular.
Although the reptile part of her business isn’t happening yet, she swears it’s coming. Designer snakes, lizards and such.
“Eventually I’m going to have my own little retail,” she said. “I’ve dreamed of this ever since I was little girl. If it kills me I’m going to have myself a reptile store.”
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