Do you share this hobby with your son or daughter?

Well i don't have kids but i do have a little bro. and he loves my snakes...now if we can only talk mom into getting more....she's a bit afraid of them. but we are working on that in fact we are going to the irba in san diego and she's going with. we are going to be adding some lizards to my collection and getting my lil bro his own.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...igenTiombe.jpg Raigen with Tiombe....who looks more nervous?


But she really loved them, I have to tell her all day "Enough hugging" because she runs to there cages and hugs and kisses the actual tub..weird. And when its cleaning day she is a big helper, she'll take there hides and what ever else to the bathtub to be washed, and watch the snakes while there in there tubs waiting for me to get done cleaning there homes. She loves them to much lol. Its hard getting her to understand we DONT hug or kiss any snake with out mommy saying its okay. Today I was washing out my pet crate outside and I picked it up and there was a little ring neck under it that hurried off but of coarse Raigen was right there saying "Hold you HOLD YOU!!" as it raced away.

My husband and my son love all of our animals. I brought our first snake home from the zoo were I was working and no one would touch him at first. ( Naga the Indian Python was a little scary for me at first too...) But we went to the maryland reptile show and I got my boys( husband and son ) both there very own corn snake. Ever since then we all handle the snakes and lizards and bugs. I try to make every aspect of the reptiles ( cleaning feeding handling ) a family event. As much as I can.

Like a few of the people who posted earlier said, I dont have any children, but I think that in the future it'd be my responsibility to make sure they love nature and especially herps (who sometimes get a bad rep).

I already try to get the younger people in my community involved by talking to them and their parents before they go out to petco to buy an animal. We all know to go to a responsible breeder to purchase an animal, but not everyone knows as much.

In conclusion, I have great respect for those of us who go out of our way to educate others.

I share my love of reptiles with my son (6). My daughter (5) loves the geckos, but is slowly coming around to the world of snakes. Actually, it was my son't love of snakes that reminded me how much I enjoy them. It was then that I decided to take the plunge into bps!

As I'm NOT surprised, you guys/gals had some GREAT stories.


I hope more write about their experiences with their kids as well.


THANKS!

No sons or daughters, but I do share my hobby with my brother.

i am only 16 so i dont have kids. my mom HATES snakes and my dad passed when i was 12. i have a 12 year old brother that loves snakes and helps me out with care/maitnance. i swear that kid is the next steve irwin. one time there was a 5 ft gator that needed to be removed(no fear if humans) and once he cam on land my lil bro jumped on him lol. luckily there were no casualtys :)

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Originally Posted by uro1001

one time there was a 5 ft gator that needed to be removed(no fear if humans) and once he cam on land my lil bro jumped on him lol. luckily there were no casualtys :)

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LMAO!! That's funny. What happened to the poor thing (LOL)?

Our whole family is snake/herp crazy LOL. Mike and I have our BP's, I have my own little crested gecko and soon a baby leucy texas ratsnake, our 15 year old son Luke has his yearling BCI, our 12 year old daughter Beth has her yearling albino nelson's milksnake. Our oldest Kate is thinking about getting her own BP soon and our 5 year old Mikey is just mad because the FedEx man "nebber brings me my very own snake mommy!!!!" (a snake is arriving this Tuesday from Cue so I think I will have to make her "mikey's very own snake" just to keep the peace LOL). Here's a few pics....

Me with the BCI we fostered (Rauri).....
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../8/raurijo.jpg

Mike with one of our bigger female BP's (Orlah).....
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...ike_855751.jpg

Mikey with our 100% het for albino male BP (Malachi).....
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...mikeymay06.jpg

Luke trying to keep the big BCI (Rauri) out of our Xmas tree.....
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...auriMoving.jpg

Beth with her lovely female albino Nelson's Milksnake (Emi).....
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...8/EmiandMe.jpg

Now I just need to get a pic of my oldest daughter with a snake and I've got the whole set LOL!