Age of owners?

My co-workers are avid hunters and fisher-women... kill, clean and butcher their prey, so to speak. However today when they found out I was getting a new baby snake on Wednesday... they freaked smooth out because I feed them mice and rats. :O Hmm.. I knew I kept my love of snakes under wraps for a reason. They were totally shocked that such a nice wife and mother such as I would allow snakes in my home. **rolls her eyes** When I started telling them stories about George, the boa that I grew up with as a child and Dixie my 15 yr old bp... they just kept shuddering and stating that it was too gross. What's up with that?

I'm 20 and have been keeping reptiles for over a year.

I am 30 and my husband is 39. We have a 2 yr old daughter.

The thing I friggin HATE more then anything when I tell people I have snakes is "Won't it hurt your KID!?!?!" Sure, MAYBE one may bite her (though, this would never happen, since she's never even in the same room when we have them out), but none of them could hurt a 2 yr old.

I run a MUCH bigger risk with my pitbull. Though, she's such a wimp and afraid of anything, I worry more about my kid hurting her.

im 20 been keeping since...my 19th birthday! lol

22 play college football and have had snakes fish and reptiles for about 10 years now. my team mates call my apartment the ZOO hahaha. I feel embarresed sometimes for being a minority amoung my peer group but then i go to my snakes and they make me happy lol. keeping and raiseing these amazing creatures keeps my sanity hahaha. I dont know if anyone else can relate maybe someone on the 12 pages of responses hahaha. as a sociology major I must say people think we are dif because reptile keeping is not a SOCIAL norm but who cares. whats NORMAL right? lol I LOVE MY BALLLZ:P

i'm 23 and i didnt get my first bp's till 6 months ago its not an age thing some people would rather have reptiles as pets.

I started catching snakes as far back as I can remember. My mother likes to remind me that I got kicked off of the school bus in the second grade for trying to take a snake to school for show and tell. I caught it while waiting for the bus. I have had many snakes throughout my life. I have a 10 year old female ball that I have had since she was a neonate. I am almost 40 now and I am just getting into breading snakes on more than an accidental scale. Guess I will never grow up.:D

I am ten and i have been keeping reptiles for 2 months

I started to reasearch reptiles when I was for and have liked then since

10 your a bad arse kid. . . dont mess with hots lol. thats AWESOME:O

Im 24 Ive owned snakes since i was 14 or 15. I Used to have 8 at one time and delt with some very honary ones and got tagged a few times. Ive had several types but the dumerials ground boa and the ball python was by far the most docile ive owned i had a blood python that was docile to. I got out of it for a while because i ended up gettin tagged by the 8ft plus 30lb+ Redtail boa. I was leary for a while but now im over it, but not i take alot more precaution and pay alot more attention to the body languange, and the mood that there in.