Did you have a pet snake as a kid?

my mom wouldnt have been caught dead in the same house as a snake lol she thinks theyre all evil just cuz the devil disguised himself as one in the bible...

I caught many in the creek behind my childhood house, but always released them the same day. I bought my first at around age 17 or 18.

I lived about a block away from a creek when I was a kid. I would catch one garter snake each spring starting when I was about 8. I would keep it all summer, and then let it go in the fall (because I wasn't bright enough to figure out how to feed it in the winter). I did this for about 2 or 3 summers.

I'm not sure how they even lived through the summer. I had them in a 10 gallon aquarium, I used grass clippings as bedding, no water, and no heat source. I fed them night crawlers, and even had a few successful sheds.

Then I discovered ball pythons when I was about 12 years old at the local ma and pa pet store. I begged my mom to let me get one, but she said no. She was fine with garters, but once she heard "python" it was out of the question. It was probably for the best, considering my husbandry skills for the garters.

I finally got my first ball about 12 years ago at the age of 25.

i voted no. My mom is afraid of snakes and was completely against snakes. But my son is 6 now and got a corn for his birthday from us. I feed and clean it right now. But we say it is his and he loves petting George.

I didn't have any snakes as a kid, but I always wanted one. :snake:

Parents didn't really let me have pets. We had a family dog and that was about it. Something happened in me this year. I was about to turn 31 and I have always wanted a tarantula. My wife said she would leave me if I got one. I figured I had gone so long not getting one that I could go longer but I wanted something else.

The reason I wanted a tarantula was because it wouldn't care if I never payed it any attention other than feeding it. I didn't want to commit myself to something that needed someone to care about it. Sounds cold hearted, but I don't like dogs and I already have two cats which won't be replaced when they pass.

Thanks to a friend, I started looking into snakes. He said they would love me to never care to touch them, as long as I fed them, water, spot clean and monthly replace bedding.

Got my first snake and fell in love. By March, I had three and two leopard geckos and breeding my first colony of mealworms. Since march, I have started a superworm colony and got a bearded dragon yesterday (wife's idea).

It takes probably an hour out of my day to take care of everything, but I enjoy it and I have plans to get more. Need to build a rack first. Guess I'm making up for lost time.

BTW, I have not lived at my parents house since 1998. I don't want anyone to think I recently moved out at the age of 31 lol

I had a baby female burmese when I was 6 years old!!

I had frogs mostly, and fence lizards that I would ketch. I recieved my first snake, a female ball python, for my 14th birthday. So I geuss I was still a kid.

I had salamanders when I was a kid. Otherwise, no reptiles.

We caught all kinds of creatures when I was a kid, but never kept them as pets. Garter snakes, blow snakes, crawdads, salamanders, frogs, tadpoles, lizards, horny toads, scorpions, etc...