I have achieved the impossible.

My mom was the same way. She wouldn't allow me to have snakes...
when I was 16 I went out and got two corn snakes and hid them in my room. She found them and was quite angry, but didn't make me get rid of them. She just never came into my room...

Flash forward 12 years and my brother's girlfriend needed a place for her 11 foot Burmese python when she went to Africa for college.
The snake ended up in my brother's room...and guess who absolutely LOVES him?
Yup...my mom. Now she wants a snake.

Behemoth fan I'm guessing?

That's wonderful when I lived with my parents snake was automatically no so had to get grown first then get the snake my won't even walk in the room with a snake so I totally understand how u feel

w00t!

I'm the snake-phobic mom. Held out for 12 years - no snakes inside the house, no pets, no catch-and-release-from-the-yard, not even a dead one.

I finally gave in - I saw a pastel (yes, that's yellow) at the brand new reptile store my husband and kids started going to every weekend. I thought she was pretty and I saw a little kid - probably 6 years old - holding her and she was just balled up in his hand sitting chill. She looked more like a big chunk of candy than a snake.

So I did an impulse buy - yep. I took out my bank card and shelled out 250 bucks for something I was scared of and knew nothing about. Okay, it was more than 250 because I went to the store owner and told him - I want that snake and everything that it goes with - so he loaded up tank, heater, hides, bowl, substrate, cork backing, thermostat, thermometer, fake plants, rat, and a book into my car.

You can imagine the jaw-drop going on at the house when my husband came home.

A few weeks later I joined bp.net.

Today, I still can't shake the phobia - especially after I got bit for the first time - by a hatchling no less! But, I can handle the snakes now as long as my husband or the kids are in the room with me. I can even pick them up out of their tank by myself!

Wow you are lucky!!! My parents where so easy to convince with a corn snake or leopard gecko. But now they wont even budge, so I still have to work a bit of magic :) any tips haha, I will try leaving a ball python book in the bath room hope that works LOL :)


Hope you get your bumblebee :)