What made you interested in snakes?

I've just always liked snakes. As a kid, I used to catch little garter snakes in fields by our house...and would keep them until my mom would make me let them go.

Been married twice...and both wives said no way. But my current girlfriend also loves snakes, so I finally got the okay.

was upstate new york getting wood from the woodpile and found my first snake. a garter snake. i was like 11 years old. I then began to look for them found a few corns and more garters. I went to a local reptile museum and bought my first ball python at the age of 11 or 12 it was when i was in 6th grade. been keeping ball pythons and reptiles ever since.

My dad was an outdoor kinda guy. He hunted, fished, and loved the outdoors, even if it was just working in the yard. He would always show me things like interesting bugs, snakes ect. That probably started it for me. Then later in school I was into helping care for the snakes in the biology lab. Everyone thought I was nuts.
I've always been unafraid to go my own way. Having people think I was nuts was half the fun.
Then I had kids and my kids wanted a snake, so we got Sarah, our Corn Snake and from there it grew. When I got my first Ball python, Boo, I was hooked.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't excited to catch and play with a snake! I think it was in my blood!

My friends uncle had a huge albino burmese. Probably 16ft long, he was a monster. I loved the color of him, I was fascinated with how they eat. He let me feed him a pre killed rabbit that was huge. I was so scared but the snake was a gentle giant, not to mention the tongs were real long lol.

Now I am hooked on albino ball pythons

I LOVED dinosaurs as a little kid. Almost all my toys were of them or some other animals lol So I guess I had a thing for reptiles partly due to that.

I was around 8-9 at the time. We have a pool and when we got tadpoles in it we raised them up. Every week I went with my mom or dad to get the baby frogs crickets. I found my local herp shop this way and while looking around I saw this little cornsnake in a display and I loved it instantly.

He/she ended up being my first snake and I had her for about 5 years if memory serves me right.

I have been fascinated by snakes as long as I can remember and never had any fear of them, despite growing up with a mother and two sisters that were (and are to this day) completely terrified of them. So, of course I didn't get to keep real snakes as a child, but I was allowed to collect rubber and stuffed snakes. I still remember hauling my collection my toy snakes to school for show-and-tell when I was in kindergarten. Now that I am grown up and have a good-sized collection of real snakes, I make sure my kids get to have live snakes for show-and-tell or a special presentation every year. It is always a hit and helps the kids to see that snakes can be really nice pets. :snake:

wow great stories everyong!! Well though I was a total animal freak since I was born...it was always mammals. I grew up being terrified of snakes and that just continued throughout my life. Now living in AZ....I wouldnt even go hiking in the summer months for fear I would run into a rattlesnake. And I was just as much a freak with my son.

Well then...move forward to my son wanting another pet for his B-day. He made a list of all of the things he would want and my hubby and I went through it. The two things we picked out was snake....or lizard as they are not stinky. :rolleyes: We were going for a cham...but then I found out they were a little difficult as a first reptile. So then onto a snake. I told the hubby that he would have to feed them as I could in no way do that. Well we looked at milk.....we looked at corns....then this woman at the reptile store handed me Elizabeth. She was a total love bug. So my sons Grandma went in and that was his birthday present from her. A normal BP. Needless to say.....2 days later...........I was so hooked. LOVED HER...wanted to hold her 24 hours a day....and she really liked the interaction. It took about ....oh.....3 weeks...and I had my bee. Another 6 weeks and I had my butter.....then about 2 and 1/2 months....I got my little funky normal. I am hooked ....the hubby is hooked. My son....loves his BP....but realizes mommy has totally taken her over...:rolleyes:....now he wants a tegu and a beardie as well. lol.....I think he is slowly trying to build a reptile zoo here.

Well actually my intrest in snakes and other reptiles has been since i was a young child. I am now only 22 but my intrest has turned into an extreme hobby. I remember as a child prob 5-6 i would go catch garden snakes and even turtles. I would keep them for a few days and release them back in the yard. Now my passion for reptiles has turned into a lifestyle. I now have 30 plus breeding ball pythons and any given number of babys and other odds and ends. I now have a 3 year old daughter that is starting to show the same intrest so I am hoping to continue the trend of a true herp loving family.

I am a preacher(pastor) awesome church in Indiana....no we are not a snake handling church.. however I have always love snakes and animals...
It is like God formed me in my mothers womb to like animals.
I like snakes because of the uniqueness and relatively easy care.
I can't understand why so many people are freaked out about them.
Weird.