Did you have a pet snake as a kid?

My dad is terrified of snakes. I didn't know that until I got my first ball python when I was 18. I felt terrible because I used to bring snake books home from school and the library and have him read them to me. They were like NatGeo books with real pictures. I had stuffed animal snakes and those plastic and rubber ones but no real ones.

My dad, terrified as he is, will still come into my apartment, and Charlie's enclosure is in the living room. We're making progress!

no but i had alot of other reptiles

Nope, didn't get my first snake until last year! But I did have a pair of leopard geckos in high school, and my brother had a turtle... so our house wasn't reptile/amphibian free, LOL. ;)

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Originally Posted by chapskis1

i lived about a block away from a creek when i was a kid. I would catch one garter snake each spring starting when i was about 8. I would keep it all summer, and then let it go in the fall (because i wasn't bright enough to figure out how to feed it in the winter). I did this for about 2 or 3 summers.

I'm not sure how they even lived through the summer. I had them in a 10 gallon aquarium, i used grass clippings as bedding, no water, and no heat source. I fed them night crawlers, and even had a few successful sheds.

Then i discovered ball pythons when i was about 12 years old at the local ma and pa pet store. I begged my mom to let me get one, but she said no. She was fine with garters, but once she heard "python" it was out of the question. It was probably for the best, considering my husbandry skills for the garters.

I finally got my first ball about 12 years ago at the age of 25.

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if i had a ball python as a kid, it would've died in a month lol. I'm so glad that didnt happen

My mom never would let me! One day my mom was screaming and called me! I went to the living room to see my Mom standing on the couch and asked if I had a snake in the house. I said no and she said yes you do because it just went across the floor and is under the chair! I grabbed it and took off outside! I think I got grounded for that one! LOL!

I'm currently 13 and have kept a ball python since i was 10 and it's still alive and healthy! About a year ago i got a corn snake still alive! And 2 months ago bought an under leopard gecko that weighed 37 grams when i got it and not is 48 grams. So I guess some kids can do things right.

got my very first snake at the age of 18 was a cal king sadly she is no longer with us .

No actually. I used to catch them, and then let them go. Same with frogs, lizards, toads, and anything else I could sneak up on or find under a rock.

Then as I was a young teen my cousin who rented out our basement kept a boa constrictor...and didn't feed it properly (I know this know, not then) and me and my mom would get very creeped out because it would follow our movements with it's head while flicking it's tongue.

Then I met my boyfriend who kept ball pythons, after a bit of nervously holding them I fell in love. It was when we had our first clutch that I took over keeping them though.:oops:

Got a baby corn when I was 8. He just turned 13 last month. :)

Was not allowed to have a snake in the house! Orders of the MOM! I had just about ever other pet a kid could have. Gerbils, Turtles, Green Iguana, Cayman, Fish, Hermit Crabs and Tarantulas. But no snakes!