Re: So I'm curious, what's your BP story?
I grew up in Indianapolis where I could see the skyline from my yard, but we had family members with farms and my dad always took my brother and I camping. Those trips are when I fell in love with reptiles. I may have had a snake that I caught in my youth for a few days or so, but I only got my first real pet snake a few months ago when a friend got married, bought a house, and asked me to foster his three BP's. I only wanted to keep one, and as he had all of them in a 40 gallon breeder:( I adopted 1 off to a good friend of mine, and 1 to a very responsible breeder from Lawrence Exotics. There were two 7 year old males and a 4 year old female. I chose to keep a male because we just clicked. I think he may be a reduced, banded or just a good looking normal. So now I caught the addiction and have not stopped reading all that I can, and am taking my first vacation days at work to go to the midwest reptile show October 16.
Re: So I'm curious, what's your BP story?
I got into snakes in hopes of curing my fear of them (sadly I can't seem to do that with spiders lol). You always fear the unknown. My first snake wasn't a bp but a kingsnake. It took me a long time to figure out his bark was worse than his bite. :rofl:
Snakes are kinda like tattoos....once you get one you want another! A couple of months after getting the king, I bought a bp. Best pet I ever had! It wasn't too long before I was rescuing snakes, mainly wc bps. My own pets were a king, a ball, a burm, and a red tail.
After Anneliese, my first bp passed a few years ago, I gave my collection away. I was heartbroken and for the time I didn't want to have any. I knew I'd get back into them again....just didn't know when.
About 6 months ago, after grieving over a baby sparrow I rescued, I went to a pet shop and was looking for something to ease the pain of being a bad bird mommy. They had bp's on sale as well as reptile starter kits. I called the boyfriend and told him (because he had wanted a snake) and he told me to get one and whatever it would need for a home. Now, I have a total of 5 in my home: 3 bps...2 of which are my kids (they're practically grown and grew up around snakes, loving them as much as I) and 2 albino burms. Collection kinda grew quick! :rofl: