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New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
My kids, Marty and Veronica are newbies here. Nice site! We got a BP earlier this year and are really happy with her and fascinated with all things snake. Sisss was bought on Craigs List from a guy who wasn't a bad owner, but not great either. She's really settled in to her new home and loves being handled. What a great new friend she is. She's a normal, and while we're absolutely wowed by the morphs, she's super special to us.
I took Veronica and Marty to a small event done by a guy who works under the name "Snakes Alive" and put on by the Santa Cruz County Parks. He brings a dozen different snakes and spreads out a big rug and lets the kids play with the snakes on the floor. It's so cool to see kids' eyes light up when they play with those critters. It's a great program and one I hope other communities have available to them. If you've got a collection or are a rescue outfit it seems like a great thing to do, not only to get folks into the herp hobby, but to at least take the fear of snakes away from people.
I was so proud of six year old Veronica and the way she so casually handled the various snakes. She's been holding 40" long Sisss and so a little gopher or corn snake was so easy for her. I promised her I'd let her get her own snake and I would help take of it with her. We have a reptile show coming to our area tomorrow and Sunday, so she'll have lots to choose from. Never been to such a show. Should be fun!
Anyone going to this show?
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
Welcome to the site, and sounds liked you guys are hooked.
Christie
Reptile Geek
Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
Welcome to the forum! Wonderful to see another family enjoying snakes together. Our 14 year old son and 11 year old daughter are both saving up for their own "personal" snakes (milksnakes) right now....saving cash and making good grades gets them a snake each LOL.
Sounds like a wonderful program you had there. It's nice to expose kids to safe handling of snakes early on before they gotten poor information/fears passed on to them.
~~Jo~~
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
Yeah, Christie! "Snake hooked" hee hee...
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
im goin to the san jose reptile show. im goin on saturday though.
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
hry mr python what are you getting
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
Ooh and welcome to the hobby the herp hobby is awesome!!
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
i dont know, ill prolly just go there to check things out.
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
Sounds like you guys are hooked....
I am going to the San Jose show on Sunday. I might get a BP myself if my parents let me. ( I hope my 4.0 gpa will help me get them to say yes.)
Well actually I probably won't get one ( I dont' have a cage set up , I rather have a cage already set up for one then to stress on out) ,but I will still try to persuade them.
Crested Gecko (Rhacodactylus ciliatus) 0.0.2
Both too young to sex yet. Names:Geico and Ratchet
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Re: New member(s) and the San Jose Reptile show
i went to the San Jose reptile show yesterday which was Saturday it was cool it was my first reptile show too and i just got into snakes and lizards
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