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We are a non-profit organization. We aren't making any money from this. Adoption fees vary from snake to snake. The adoption fee is based on what kind of care the snake needed(cost of food, vet care, mite removal, and in extreme sickly snakes heat lamps 24/7, electric) routine maintence is nothing so it all depends. The adoption fee just covers what has been put into the snake. All snakes leave here with a "clean bill of health" from the veterinarian.
As a kid growing up in Kanasas, Alabama, and California, I did my fair share of rattlesnake, and water mocasin watching. Here in Western Washington, at least nobody worries about finding rattlesnakes in their wood sheds. The climate isn't as warm as I'd like staying fairly mild year round. The snakes don't seem to mind in their temperature controled cages, and on warm days we take the snakes out to one of the local parks to stretch out and visit all the curious folks passing by. My wife Jennifer is involved with the snakes. In fact for Christmas 1996 she bought me a female Green Phase Burmese, we named Stripe. Some wives buy colonge mine buys me snakes. For Father's Day 1999 she rescued a baby Burmese python at a carnival. The seller had an unexpected clutch so he decided to sell them at the fair. Not telling people what or how big they can get. Her problem was they can't grow up if kids take them on rides, and kill them. So home came Puzzle. Her main focus with the rescue is EDUCATING PEOPLE.
(Making sure they know what they are getting into, you just married a snake, a lifelong commitment to a constantly growing snake.)
Since starting up we've have "taken in" 16 snakes. Mainly Burmese pythons, Boa Constrictors, and a couple of Ball (ROYAL) pythons. We've found them caring commited homes. One Ball python went out of Washington and now lives in Idaho. 
This is MisFortune (Fortune) after eating a six week old piglet that died during castration because of a hernia. She was a very happy snake after that meal.
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