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?

Welcome to the site, and sounds liked you guys are hooked. :D

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~~

Yeah, Christie! "Snake hooked" hee hee...

im goin to the san jose reptile show. im goin on saturday though.

hry mr python what are you getting

Ooh and welcome to the hobby the herp hobby is awesome!!

i dont know, ill prolly just go there to check things out.

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.

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