Bruce Ireland
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About
YouTuber, Instagram star, professional snake wrangler, and wildlife educator also known online as Wrangler Bruce and known for creating content documenting the humane rescue and relocation of rattlesnakes and other reptiles through his RBI Snake Wrangler YouTube channel and his Instagram account which has helped him amass over 750,000 YouTube subscribers and over 550,000 Instagram followers.
Before fame
He developed an interest in snakes as a child by catching them with a forked stick and carrying them home in a pillowcase to a tank his father had prepared.
Trivia
He is the founder of The Snake Wranglers. He has been featured by The Dodo, CBS 8, ABC 10News, and the Los Angeles Times. He began offering free snake relocations through Nextdoor around 2018 and expanded the effort into a volunteer team in 2020. He began sharing snake relocating content on YouTube and Instagram in 2020.
Family life
He married photographer Holly Cruikshank Ireland, and they have two daughters together named Addy and Brooke. His daughters have both trained as apprentice snake wranglers.
Associated with
He and Coyote Peterson are both wildlife educators known for sharing close-up encounters with snakes and other animals online.
