Mom's with Reptiles?

Not a mom, but I live with my boyfriend and his daughter. She is so sweet around the snakes, and for the first couple months she'd come home letting everyone know about how jealous her friends were about her new family pets :D First thing she asks when friends are over is if we can get out the mojo boy, who is an absolute doll around people. Now she has her own leo, and my boyfriend had herp interests before we were dating so he's starting to build a collection of his own :D (starting with a normal BP male, he has no breeding interests, but lots of different species interests)

I'm a stepmom (every other weekend and 2 weeks in the summer :/ ). My husband and I have bps, boas, corns, kings, milks, a blood, a beardie, and (in about 2 hours) a crestie. We also have 2 dogs and 2 cats. :)

I tell nobody about my snakes or lizards anymore. Except my mom and mother in law. It's just easier that way. When I used to tell people, I really got sick of the, "eeeewwww"s.

I think it's important for kids to grow up with an appreciation for all living things. So the fact that my stepdaughter's getting exposed to animals she wouldn't otherwise (except walking by them at the zoo), is good I think.

I have 2 kiddos, and last year they got to pick out their own snakes to name from the holdbacks. (This is why we now have a snake named 'Unicorn', lol).

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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion

I have 2 kiddos, and last year they got to pick out their own snakes to name from the holdbacks. (This is why we now have a snake named 'Unicorn', lol).

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Unicorn must be the coolest snake EVER!:P

Knowing my son- thats not to hard to imagine:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by JLC

~waves~

Mom here. I only have five snakes because of hubby's military career, but if/when we ever retire and settle someplace permanently, I'll eventually have a lot more critters. Mostly snakes and tortoises, which are my top loves, but there's so much to love in all the species!

My husband doesn't like them. My sons are indifferent to them. And my daughter, who was the only other one in the family with a real interest has moved out of the nest. So it's just me.

Mostly I get to live vicariously through my work here at BP.net and all my herping friends. :D

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Finally somebody else who has a husband that doesn't like her snakes! :P

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Originally Posted by Xotik

I'm the only one of my female friends that doesn't have a child. I'm the resident babysitter for all of them. None of them mind that I have snakes (2 boas, 2 carpet pythons, 9 BPs and a pueblan milksnake). A few of them have actually started bringing over THEIR other friends with their kids so that they can go to the "Zoo".

If I ever have a child - I will always keep my pets. We already have pretty strict rules regarding the snakes and the kids, that'll just continue into day to day activities. I feel it is a spectacular way to introduce children to the fact that all animals are deserving of our love, not just the fuzzy ones.

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I completely agree! Someday when my husband and I have a child or two, I will be so excited to teach them about caring for and respecting the animals that share their world! :D

Chad and I have a 4 yr old daughter and he has two older girls, 11 and 12. Felicity ( the 4 yr old ) has 10 baby corn snakes that she fully cares for, plus 2 bps and 2 leos. She has been around reptiles her entire 4 yrs of life, and Chad had a snake way before I came along. All our friends and family know about reptiles :)

I'm a mom, and my 3 year old daughter loooves the snake. She's also a big fan of my panther chameleon, and she named her toy chameleon after him. Most of my friends are into the reptiles, I guess I'm lucky. I don't get many eews, lots of oooos lol.

I'm definitely not a mom. My mom doesn't seem very fond of having lots of reptiles in the house, but I think she secretly likes them. She'd never admit to it, but I think she thinks they're kinda cute. Well, the cresties at least :P

Wow, it is nice to see that I am not the only one! My husband is indifferent to the snakes by the way. He doesn't like them, or hate them. I guess indifference is better than dislike! He does enjoy holding our new boa though. So maybe the boa can win him over. :D