You know you are a herper when....

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

. . . unexplained noises no longer spook you in the classic sense - they just make you rush to do a headcount of critters to make sure none got out and are slithering around.

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If that ain't the truth....ha ha....that happens to me all the time!



You must be a herper when you are more concerned with your snakes' weights then your own.

...You know the price, place to find and even have a picture of a walmart indoor/outdoor therm.


...Your friends on the ball python forum know more about your love life than your own family.

...Your 9 yo asks for a new BP for Christmas because his is shedding and he can't hold him.

...You are overly nervous about bm's, urates, and substrate

...You ask around for the best breeding database

...You go on your honey moon, and actually post & update the goings on, on the forum and "just have to check in" :)

... the local pet shop guy knows you by name & gets off the phone to give you sad news. He tells you he's sorry but he sold the GTP that you had been drooling over

...You get a sun burn and when the skin starts to peel your son tells you that you are shedding

you would rather clean cages than do homework.

you buy insulated boxes and don't ship food in them

you get excited about baby roaches (no more crickets!)

you have taken more pictures of herps than anything else

bunnies, rodents...it's all "snake food"

you ask for tools and/or a chest freezer for christmas (build cages, store rats:D)

You know the names of the some of the more spectaluar big breeder snakes (Floyd, Karma, RocoLoco, etc).

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Originally Posted by ddbjdealer

....when your name is Adam and you receive a phone call during dinner from someone wanting to talk snakes and says "hey, got a second?" and the next thing you know its after midnight. (I'm just guessing on this one)

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LOL!

-adam

your electric bill from all the specialty lighting in your house gets you flagged with the local authorities

-AWESOME!!!!!!


Your parents are totally cool w/ you checkin out balls and racks online.

-My personal favorite


When
--you buy your second herp(Almost always immediately after the purchase of the first)

--You stock up on cages totally in denial..."They'll stay empty"

--You go to work at the reptile store and realize you have a better selection at home.


--You don't see anything wrong w/ keeping a living organism in a cage and giving it a #

--Your ball pythons home size to body mass ratio is larger than yours

--You stay perfectly still when a reptile bites you because his teeth might fall out and give it an infection

jeez ive been thinking of this one for a while....

-when you have to save every little piece of garbage (old containers, newspapers, wrapping paper,etc) just in case :tp:


- When you have 10x more herps in the house then people (my dream)

Last but not least

- when your mom asks "what do you want for the holidays dear" and you reply " a butter, some platinum, a cinnamon, maybe a lemon" she replies " thank god i dont have to pay a fortune this year"..... hehehehe:twisted: (me)

--You go to work at the reptile store and realize you have a better selection at home.

hahahaha that's how it was when i was working at my LFS (local fish store) - i had everything we sold at home... man i can relate!

--You say your kids are 1.2

hahahaha that cracks me up!

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i know i'm a herper when the pet store says "oh don't worry aleesha, you'll be in again before christmas" and you leave swearing you won't and, once again, find yourself going in the next day... and the day after that... and realize you are going to have to go back again tomorrow.

- every pet store in town knows you on a first name basis and your phone number (small town 3 pet stores)

- your mom lets you stay home to accept the new snake coming at 10!
- you trade homemade Spanish rice for frozen rats *yes, I do*
- your nickname at the petstore is "The Snake Lady"
- you pay more attention to your snakes than your boyfriend but he has given up on whining
- when its normal to have rats floating in the sink

-When your nickname at work is 'Parselmouth' (from Harry Potter it's someone who can talk to snakes)

They actually write 'Parselmouth' in the appointment book for my slot. :O

...you have a special drower for perfect sheds.(guilty as charged)

.....you buy incubation equipment and build a hatchling rack even though you don't plan to breed snakes until next year.

.....you get a snake as a present.

.......you spend hours on the net just to find out every ball python morph....proven and unproven (thats me:P )


......you spend countless hours on a snake forum chatting with other crazy herpers from around the world (everyone on here :D )

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Originally Posted by mr~python

...you have a special drower for perfect sheds.(guilty as charged)

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I am guilty too.

Your waiting to pick your son up from Kindergarden, and are on the phone discussing racks only to notice all the odd looks you are getting.... :oops:

....you still have to come online during the holidays to check in. :)

You ask for and get a new AP cage for Christmas for your ball python!!!!!!

.....you're incredibly jealous about someone else getting an AP cage for Christmas LOL!

.....you take so many pictures of the newest snake eating that even you realize you make have a lil "problem" :oops:


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by Schlyne

You know the names of the some of the more spectaluar big breeder snakes (Floyd, Karma, RocoLoco, etc).

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oops. that should have said RojoLoco

when your hubby is looking at the home depot flyer and instead of looking at tools like usual, he's checking out the sale on totes!!!

You have more crickets in the Lizard room than there are in your back garden and all the local parks!

When you pick up national geograpic to see an article of snakes in stead of maximum magazine (my mom told me that:D )


you speak of your snake as they were humans and then, people ask you: how are your babies?

You also run the all island looking for mice (I have looked like in 8 places some times) and spend like $20 on 6 mices. :confused:

... When one of the main highlights of your enforced 2 week annual separation from your herps (aka "vacation") is the sight of wild geckos running up the walls and ceiling at night.

... when you wonder if your company might be persuaded to give you "maternity leave" when you're settling in a new baby snake :)

i haven't read all of these but i did think of a cute one (sorry if it's a repeat)


... you tell some guy your interested in dating, that you bet your balls are bigger then his (when hes a herper)...

you are buying groceries and notice their sale on rubbermaid containers and say "oh man that would fit a nice corn snake... oh look honey, that would be great for a crested gecko..." (happened tonight)

When you steal large amounts of free newspaper at all mart that says "please only take one per person"

I do this all the time....one time i grabbed actually a pretty small handful of paper and the greeter lady said to me can you please only take one. I quickly turned around to her and said "listen lady, i have alot of snakes who need this newspaper alot more than you do" in a friendly almost sarcastic voice and kept walking, she just had a funny look on her face and didnt say a thing.I see her all the time there and now when i take my handful she doesnt say anything, she just smiles. and pretends not to see me.

Someone posted this in a bulliten on myspace. I thought you would like it.

1.~Ever greeted anyone at the door with a snake wrapped around your shoulders?

2.~Do you keep your snake sheds?

3.~Ever had to tell anyone in the pet store you're NOT buying the cute bunny/rat as a pet, but as snake lunch?

4.~Have a room dedicated entirely to your snakes instead of your computer?

5.~Opted to have less furniture so you can fit in more tanks/cages?

6.~Ever bought a brand new shiny deep freeze SOLELY for frozen prey items?

7.~Refused to scrap the old fridge cause "it'll make a great incubator project!"

8.~understand the true meaning of when someone tells you their balls have mites?

9.~Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night because you had a nightmare that your snakes were stolen?

10.~Ever describe your 16' retic in a foul mood as "nippy"?

11.~Friend's don't come over cause they're afraid your snake/reptiles will leap out of their cages and bite?

12.~find yourself cooing to your pet geckos & telling them how cute they are?

13.~think your pet store turtle is better than your neighbor's $700 AKC registered Tea Cup Poodle?

14.~gotten a second job to make sure you can afford the elecrtic bill ?

15.~or more breeding projects?

16.~Ever been tagged by your snake & called it a "love bite"?


17.~Ever find yourself getting into a heated debate about morph genetics?

18.~Been referred to as "that person who owns all the snakes"?


19.~Know that someday your Beardies WILL speak when they @@@@ their heads & look at you?

20.~spent over a WEEK picking out just the right viv or cages?

I am guilty of 1,2,3,4 (the computer's in here too),5(just did this yesterday!),8,9(did this last night too),10 (my 7' dumerils gets nippy anyway :P), 11,12, AND 18.

There is shed skin all over your house. Either it's bagged or it's in tiny loose pieces scattered everywhere. Doesn't matter that the snakes were no where near that area, it's shed snakeskin.

I'm very guilty of that one, Schlyne. I've got snake skins draped over the side of an empty aquarium to dry, I've got a drawer full of one piecers, and there's hog island boa sheds wrapped around my bedposts, around my curtain rods, and there's an anaconda shed wrapped around my lampshade.

when you see a commercial for a new clorox bleach product being used near food and baby's and think " that'd be great to clean the tank with"

The only crock pot in your house is used for bringing F/T mice up to temp on the "keep warm" setting.

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The only crock pot in your house is used for bringing F/T mice up to temp on the "keep warm" setting.

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that's awesome...luvit.

You know your a herper when....


hearing a constant "whistle" come from your snake makes you go into cardiac arrest

You stay up till 3 in the morning (even though you are exhausted) searching for "poor babies" that need homes

You find yourself running a tub for your snake instead of your child

You stop talking to people who your snake doesnt like or vice versa:-)

When some co-workrers are all admiring pics of their children, and you bust out a pocket photo album of your snakes......

When you postpone dinner until later that evening b/c your children have better feeding responses.

You claim that your dandruff is just a part of your shed cycle.:laughing:

Lawd, if I'm having a bad day this thread is a guaranteed good belly laugh....you guys ROCK! LOL


Let's see a few more....

1. You realize that you got a digi-cam and have taken hundreds of snake pics and maybe 3 pics of your children! Amazingly, you aren't particularily embarrassed over this!

2. You get totally ticked off that WalMart got some more of your favorite tubs in and LOST THE LIDS! You give the poor customer service person a very foul glare and stomp off (guilty as charged...but geesh!)

3. You sit up half the night watching over a breeder female rat whose had a hard birth.

4. When one of your best breeder female rats has a litter you can in your head calculate exactlyand immediately just how much money you saved on the snake's feed bill.

5. Your kids start phoning from school because they are trying to explain to their teacher about snakes and they need back up!


~~Jo~~

I like #5, my lil sis is being taught about reptiles now and the teacher keeps asking her to ask me certain things about snakes/bp's

Isn't educating ppl the best part??? Ive got friends who are soooo fearful, but I take PS out, and instead of shoving him into their face, politely respect their distance and talk and handle him. Even had one that then asked if they could hold him. :D It was great.


I LOOOOVE that FD takes Kish's sheds to school to share & that she's so excited to do so. (this last week's was one-piecer/perfect!!) She's gotten a couple of her friends to learn more about 'em to decrease the fear factor of the "unknown"

You know you're a herper when.........

You announce the birth of your new son, and include the line "No, he isn't het for anything" because you know somebody will ask (happened on another forum).