Your Ball Python Fascination

hello! well my fascination with herps started with a lone baby ball python "lily" and exploded (i dont own many snakes only 2 right now, i had four at one point but have to suffer with few snakes til i get my own place)

but ive realized my fascination isnt with ball pythons, its with the entire FIELD of herpetology, thats what i want to do as perhaps a secondary career, is get a degree in herpetology, and maybe work in a zoo, or a venom extraction program.

Wow, theres really some awesome stories!!

I just love it how everyone has their own unique way into BP's.

Its funny how most peoples parents(or any concerned loved one) are an initial obstacle, but due to our determination and love for this animal we always prevail! Long live all your BP obsession!!

Mine's a bit different from the one's so far.

I had been considering etting a pet, but my girlfriend is allergic to dogs and cats, plus I currently live by myself, so leaving it alone would be an issue.

Well turns out my girlfriend's company decided to have a party to celebrate the launch of their new website. It was going to be a dinner cruise on the hudson. Well their VP is a bit... unusual... and for some reason decided they should have a turtle race. So the company buys 4 turtles. They're supposed to arrive a week before the big event.

Well that leaves the question of what to do with the turtles over the weekend, and what to eventually do with them afterwards. I figure it could be fun to have one for a weekend, and maybe keep it afterwards.

Well, the turtles didn't arrive until that monday, so there was no need for the weekend turtle sitting. But my girlfriend got to take care of them at her office...

Their water stinks! It's such a pain to have to keep changing it, especially after feeding. Not to mention the really high salmonella risk from dumping dirty water into your kitchen sink.

So yeah, I quickly realized that I wanted no turtles... but in reading about turtles had gotten kind of interested in the idea of a pet reptile. And that reptile wound up being a snake.

So a week later, I went over to a PetSmart and bought a snake and tank on the spot.

Things are going good so far other than I need to come up with a new name since he is actually a she....

Our love for them started in 2004 when we moved in together. My fiance (husband on Friday!!) has always loved snakes but his mom wouldn't let him have one, so the day we got our own apartment he got a little BP. We ended up having to rehome that one, but we now have 3 others. One of them fell in love with me and he is strictly my snake. Charlie, my snake, doesn't like to be on Matt, my fiance, at all. He squirms towards me and contently lays in my lap. Our other two, Lucy, who is our rescue, and Superman, our huge pastel, loves Matt. We're going to the Tinley Park show in a few weeks and will be adding another snake to our collection!

I got my first ball python about 9 months ago....truly fascinated by them ever since i was young but my mom would never let me get one....now i have Het genetic stripe and im on my way to getting a spider and a Mojave.....May we keep this trend going on for many years!!!!!!