Your first snake

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Originally Posted by blueberrypancakes

So... when did you start showing an interest in snakes (or reptiles in general)? What was your first snake breed? Do you call yourself a pet owner, breeder, collector, or hobbyist?

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When I was young. I loved all animals...

Ball Pythons

Breeder/Hobbiest

it was a gofer snake i caught in the hills behind my house he was the coolest snake i was 10 years old damn 28 years ago im OLD!!!!!!!

I've pretty much wanted a snake since I can remember. My parents started me off with fish, and more fish. Then eventually hamsters, and some more fish, and more hamsters. We ended up adding a dog, and birds. I couldn't stand the birds; between my allergies and the noise they made. Eventually my sister got into breeding hamsters. I was still into fish the whole time. Then after that in high school, I adopted the two lab mice from my psych class. The black one was my sisters and the white one was mine. Named Psycho because of the class and his general demeanor. He was always nippy and often chose to be left alone - happily in his cage.

The whole time I had wanted a snake, and my mom's excuse for not letting me get them was because "Grandma will never come to visit us, she's deathly afraid of them".

So eventually I moved out, graduated college, and got a job. I wanted a pet, but my landlord was "anti anything that had fleas". So I looked at her one day, and said "How about snakes?" She kinda was taken back, and said "Really, a snake? I came back with, Yeah, they eat mice, and don't have fleas. (I had just had a problem with a rat in my house) She said, sure why not!

I got Pinky from a co-worker, who's daughter was a teacher and had Pinky as a class pet. A lil less then a year later, I got Mr. Stubbs from the same Co-worker. This time it was a friend of the co-worker who bred BP's along with a few others. (will have to get his name)

I'm a pet owner, but seriously been thinking about getting into the breeding game..

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My 1st snake was half wild half domesticated, i was about 6 when it showed up in my moms garden one day. It used to go and rest under my dads beer fridge in the garage then go back out to the garden it hung around for 3 yrs.
My 1st ball python is Ancantha she was dropped off at a store i worked at as "i cant take care/dont want" so she became mine had her for a year. Now shes a happy 988 grams.

Ive always loved snakes but could never have one as a kid. Parents said that it was "bad luck" to have a snake in the house. But that didnt stop me. I got two ball pythons back in 2006 and tried to hide them. Eventually my dad found them and told my mom and they both got mad at me. Had to move them to my girlfriends house. Eventually had to get rid of them completely. 5 years later i got back into ball pythons and got me a pastel. Couldn't be any happier. I actually might pick up a normal female today after work! :D

my first snake was a ball python. got her back in late '99/early '00 when i was 19 & fresh out on my own. sadly though, she paid the ultimate price for my lack of knowledge & inexperience. i put 30% of the blame on the pet store though cuz instead of giving me, even minimal tips on bp care, they allowed the impulse buy so they could make a quick buck.
while i do acknowledge that education and gaining knowledge on the care of any animal is solely our responsibility as potential owners, i'm a firm believer now, because of that experience, in that stores should educate potential customers looking into an animal companion before letting them make the purchase, or at least make sure the customer has some basic knowledge.

R.I.P Dierdra :please: :tears:

My first snake was an albino Cali Kingsnake. I had her for over six years starting from when I was 13 I think. I think I was slightly spoiled, being an only child I had a chance to have every pet type under the sun( except maybe horses and such), and even though my mom didnt really snakes she let me get one. But that one became about 4 over the years and I managed to breed my albino girl only once, which really got me into snakes from then on. Around 2002 I started getting interested in ball pythons and all be it hesitantly,sold my small collection of kingsnakes for a het albino female.But as I saw the many morphs of ball pythons I always wanted something additional, and went thru a while of selling one snake to fund for another that I wanted. lol it was vicious cycle till I got that initial ball python 'itch' out of my system.

I got my first snake about a year ago.
It is a male bumblebee ball python. :)

My first snake was an IVORY bp female. She will be breed for the first time in a couple of months:)
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photo...51_6132904.jpg

But my first reptile was a tortoise, which I bought almost 10 years ago, she's still doing great.

Besides bp's I also breed Nephrurus amyae.