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how did "snakes" happen for you?

robeyeshua

robeyeshua

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thought it might be interesting to look at how "having snakes" happened for forum members - mine begin just last fall as i vacationed in gatllinburg, tn. - as i waited for my son to go through ripleys haunted house attraction there was a petting zoo of sorts that set up out front to advertise their nearby attraction - the first night there was a lady with a wad of what i would learn were milksnakes wrapped all around her neck - wow, was all i could say - the next night she had a hognose and for no particular reason as froest gunp would say - i just reached up and grabbed it - it was the coolest thing - as soon as i got home - i internet searched "best pet snake for beginners" and i got of course the corn snake - so i bought one, after many hours of reading and many, many more since then - a nice little candy corn from smr - a little tiny baby whose now 15 months old - about 39 inches long and still our favorite - well as you can expect that didn't do it - a fe months later i would travel to louisville for a youth travel football tourney and stop by on the way home at an expo in sheperdsville "just to look" of course - big mistake - i came home with a beautiful lady dumeril's from d nad k reptiles in cincinnatti - which i would later sale due to getting a little nervy about small kids and a chihuahua in the house - who arent here now so - next i drug out my corns little 10 gallon starter and called myself "getting it ready" in case i found something i just had to have at this years expo next month - but in no time i had filled it with a kool litttle normal ball from petco's annual 40 dollar sale and ordered a pair of identical dumeril's the same week - i'm pumped - money time - tubs, t'stats, t'mometers and voila - my snake room is developing - pictures attached - whats your story?? in pics you'll see cecil, the ball, their homes and the dumerils tubs - snakes due tomorrow - still got a 40 gallon in storage - then when i get money a rack system -books on breeding????????????? whaccha think
 

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Mine story is not that much different,
I was 13 years old and went to a local zoo with school. We got a private tour from a zookeeper that worked in the reptile section. To impress us he pulled out a cornsnake so we could feel and if we had the nerve hold the snake. After i touched it and than held it i became obsessed with all snakes. However i didn't realize you could keep some snakes as pet at home 'cause i live in belgium and i had never seen a pet store that sold snaked until i started looking for one. I also searched the web for what snake a beginner should get and ofcourse the cornsnake popped up. I read like 50 caresheets and decided i'd go to the pet store for some more information... Well i got more information but i also bought the snake, i couldn't not buy the little one after they letted me hold it for a while.

So thats my story. :p
 
Ive all ways loved herps. I was all so pretty scared of snakes to. But one day I was on the net looking for a good starting herp and came across corn snakes and then every fear went away. It took aprox 3 months to talk my mom into it but now I have had Zira my little hypo girl for a little over a month and I am going to a show next month to find her a boy friend and another snake I.
 
I grew up catching and releasing garters. But as far as keeping that started with my son wanting one. And so the herp keeping bug was born.
 
I was fascinated with all things reptile as a very young kid; from dinosaurs to box turtles. I had mason jars of Dekay's and ringnecks at age 5. Every childhood attempt at a blacksnake or garter in a covered aquarium resulted in a loose snake, so snakes were banished to the shed until I got a little older. I hatched a clutch of greensnakes in 5th grade, and the bug was permanent, though it would be a decade before I started breeding deliberately.
 
Well, I started working in a vet hospital that saw exotic animals about 4 years ago and saw my first corn and fell in love with them. Did lots of research and fell in love even more! The rest is history.
 
the collection continues

just received this incredible pair of dums from adam kirk in oklahoma city area - female has nice high pink - male is stunning
 

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I was much older when my obsession began...when I was growing up, my mother was deathly afraid of snakes, so I had very limited exposure. Fast forward a number of years, and I met a really wonderful guy and fell in love. When he moved in with me, he brought a red-tail boa with him. It was the first time I'd ever held a snake (I touched a few at the kids' section at the local zoo, but never any great extent)

When we had to get rid of the boa (he was nearly 6' long, and sometimes a bit aggressive, and we worried about him around the kids, especially my 7-year-old) I did a lot of research, because I didn't want my bf to be without a snake. I ended up here on the cornsnake forum, researched pretty thoroughly, and we ended up with a pair of snakes (a lavender boy and a normal girl).

The beginning of our obsession, as I'm already planning on getting a few more and breeding them in a few years when they're big enough (small-scale breeding...I've been sucked into all of the genetics conversations on here, and although most of it's Greek to me, I'm utterly fascinated and more interested in it than I've been in anything in a long time. Plus...I'm an artist, and the variety of morphs appeals to me visually)
 
Tinkerbeller87 said:
Well, I started working in a vet hospital that saw exotic animals about 4 years ago and saw my first corn and fell in love with them. Did lots of research and fell in love even more! The rest is history.
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This.

It took me about 5 years to finally decide that I wanted to get a snake of my own. So far I only have one and don't plan to get any more. But that's how it started for me as well.
 
I have been fascinated by snakes about as long as I can remember. I was one of those kids, who was always collecting anything creepy and crawly.... snakes, frogs, worms, bugs, slugs, snails, etc. My mom really never let me keep any of the live critters, but I did have an impressive collection of rubber snakes and stuffed animal snakes as a kid. I always knew I wanted a real pet snake but somehow had the impression that it might require a lot of work, like having a dog, so I held off on getting any until after I was done with college. My first real pet snake was a beautiful milk snake, who hated to be handled and would musk all the time. Then I discovered ball pythons and corn snakes.... and the obsession really took off. Now I can't even imagine life without snakes!
 
I can relate to what you're saying, Wendy! My favourite toys were my plush, plastic and rubber snakes and invertebrates. I had a huge rubber centipede and a rubber cobra that were my favourites, and a rubber scorpion is still kicking around somewhere. When I wasn't playing with those, I was catching things in the woods. Of course, the snake handler was my favourite person to meet at the zoo, especially when he had a boa for us to touch.

The first pet I ever asked my parents for was a boa constrictor when I was 4 or 5 years old. However, my parents were smart enough not to get their 5 year-old daughter a snake that could grow to be ten feet long, so I got a kitten instead! I would say it's too bad we didn't know about corn snakes then, but I did love my cat.

It wasn't until November of 2009 that I finally got my first snake. My life has been pretty shaky up until the last year and a half, so I wasn't really thinking about buying more pets until I had a steady job and a good living situation. Then, of course, I ended up getting five more snakes. Funny how that happens.
 
I had been catching ringnecks for years at my aunt's house when I was a kid. Then one year, I decided to keep 3. Put them in a 20 long, and a few months later I had 6 hatchlings. Kept them for awhile until my parents had to feed them while I was on the road. They kept putting the lid on loose and every time I got home frolm a job, a couple would be gone. About a year later I decided to get a corn snake, and just take it with me. So, Orichimaru has travelled with me all across America. He was on the road with me since he was 3 months old, until he was about 1.5 years old, when I got a 'normal, local' job. Then I bought more...
 
I got bitten by a Rattle Snake when I was about 8 or 9.....true story.






That, and I've also been fascinated by any animal that moved ever since I could walk. I have always loved how snakes felt and the variety of sizes & colors they come in. Then I met a few people that had snakes and got to know the basics of caring for them, and that they really did have personalities and such. So then I finally saved up enough money to get my own....Donatello :)

The End.
 
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