your first time

[smd58]

do you remember the first snake you ever saw?
mine was some time in 60's in the yard with my dad, we saw a garter snake on the drive way and he got a hoe and choped it up, but just the sight of the snake
go me started on the road to keeping them and never let dad do that again.

[GoBoilers]

Don't remember many "wild" experiences with snakes when I was a kid...as an adult after moving to Houston, however... Our backyard butts up to a small body of water, so I've run into a few while mowing the lawn. Stepped on one in high grass and thought it was a log until it slithered away! Lucky for me it wasn't a water moccasin...our dog "found" a baby water moccasin a few years ago but fortunately had the where-withal to leave it alone. Cute little bugger putting on a tough-guy act! It did the trick, though, the dog and I took off in the opposite direction!

My absolute worst experience with a snake happened shortly after we moved into our house...I was mowing the lawn (again). I was weed-wacking along the edge of the house and accidentally hit a small (garter?) snake...I was devastated! It was probably the first time I had held/seen a snake up close and I was just mesmerized. Not too long after that, a fellow co-worker brought his normal BP to the clinic and it was love at first sight! That marked the beginning of the obsession...

[llovelace]

I was around 6 I think, found a corn snake brought it inside but Mom wouldn't let me keep it.

[Bellabob]

My dad used to bring home Cal Kings, ratsnakes, cornsnakes. So I was introduced to snakes at a very young age, around 5 or 6.

[Deadly_Legend]

i was in kindergarten (and i still cant spell, go figure) and saw an ETB at the zoo, and i have wanted one ever since...still havnt gotten one, but im still working my way up.

Also, my neighboor when i was a kid (from 6-14) had all sorts of snakes, kings, milk, ball pythons, and who knows what else, he was secretive, but i always wanted to see them

[mpkeelee]

i used to always find and play with garters as a kid. dont really remember a certain age but i was really young

[xxxLIGERxxx]

i have always been fascinated by animals so, i really cant pinpoint which time in my life that i have first loved snakes. but, i do remember when the first time i held my BP. it was magical when she slithered around my arm i felt scared but yet, it was kinda soothing. the way she slithered calmed my nerves, as if, i was being massaged.

from then on, sasha, from then on, sasha has become a help in my times of stressfulness and she does seem to respond.

[deminon]

when i was kid i would always find garters around my babysiters house and i liked to chase and catch em.

[h00blah]

my sisters bf found a gopher snake a long time ago. but the snake that got me interested in BPs was the bumblebee !!

not too interested in other snakes though .. i like hots and BPs. and the huge snakes of course . i'm a lizard guy

[Freakie_frog]

I'm a Southern Boy raised in the country so..Nope..Snakes have always been a part of every day life..