Mom's with Reptiles?

I'm an mom of older kids. Mine right now are 16 and 18, both of which have grown up around snakes. I think they were 3 and 5 when I got my first one.....both had their own until a couple of years ago.

Most people think I'm crazy to have them and so many (and my collection is small compared to alot of others)! I helped one friend pick out his first bp last year. He just bought an albino corn hatchling for his girlfriend :D Another friend just got an emperor scorpion because of me. Although I find it funny that he won't touch my snakes but yet he has a scorpion? :rolleyes:

I've turned many friends and people on to snakes over the years. That's how I got back in to keeping again. The boyfriend showed a huge interest in them and I broke down and bought a bp. :D

But most people think I'm nuts for having them. :rolleye2:

As my wife doesn't get on the forums, I'll have to answer for her, we have 56 reptiles in the house, but the kids are all grown and gone, of the 4 grandkids, only 2 are old enough to recognize whats around the house, but the oldest is afraid of everything and the 4yo is more interested in the feeder bugs than the reptiles.

Certainly not my mom. If it was up to her, I wouldn't have any herps. Good thing I live with my dad, he's even going to let me breed them :P

I am a mother, and I am a herpaholic........ My daughter loves them as much as me! :D

I'm a mom and I have a problem...but so doesn't my son :D
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He's 5 years old. I'm buying him his first official pet at the Jan 29th expo near me. He wants a male leopard gecko, and he wants to name him George :banana:

Yep, mom here of two girls, 4 and 6. Most of my friends think it is weird that I love snakes. One of my neighbors even called me CRL (creepy reptile lady). However, I am not creepy!!!! I do not typically share my hobby with people that don't know me well since I have even had people respond that they would never step foot in my house. So you are not alone! Too bad that some people have such responses to such beautiful animals....

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Originally Posted by meowmeowkazoo

Finally somebody else who has a husband that doesn't like her snakes! :P

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Well, I have an ex-husband who didn't want any snakes or rats. Four years later we've done parakeets, love birds, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs and a russian tortoise. All of those are gone and what's stuck around is the western hognose, 3 garters, a leo, and an african dwarf frog. I also have the typical two dogs, one cat and 12yo twin boys.

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Yep. Everyone where I work knows I have snakes. Some of my co workers and even a boss are on my Facebook so they have recently gotten to see how involved I am in the reptile community. What with everything going on lately.. I don't hide it and I don't get much backlash either thankfully. I've been keeping CB reptiles since 1995 so I think everyone I know is just use it. I don't advertise it, but once I get to know someone it's one of the first things I like to talk about. If they don't like snakes, I won't talk about them.

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Mom here as well, with a decent collection of ball pythons.

My kids are older, 15 and 17, but we've all been animal crazy since forever. Between strays, rescues, breeding birds for 20 years, obsessions over certain animals, we have lived in a zoo since before the kids were even born.

As of this moment, we have 22 ball pythons, 1 sand boa, 9 cats [including a stray and her kitten], a dog, 5 birds, a fish tank, 75 mice, 50 ASF, a dozen pet rats, a tub of feeder rats, 3 gerbils, 4 hamsters, I think that's everything.

Most people know I live in a zoo, I wouldn't have it any other way. I am also not quiet about my passion for my pythons. I get a few "you have HOW many snakes?" but I also get a lot of "those are really cool!".

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I'm a SAHM as well and i only have 1 snake a BP and 3 bearded dragons, 3 sons and a husband. LOL My oldest son is 21 and has a little family of his own and when he comes of with our almost 2 yr old grandson he runs immediately to Chaos our BP for a quick peek and sticks his tongue out at her...it's funny trust me! Then he runs to the bearded dragons and just watches them(not that they're very active but i guess he hopes they're going to move or dance or something) LOL Our 8 yr old is insane over snakes and has started a savings jar so he can a get his first snake by the time he's 10 (he'll be 9 in Sept.) He's got expensive tastes and is going nuts for a piebold leopard spot BP...our 5 yr old loves our pets and can be seen on any given day with Chaos draped over his shoulders asthey watch tv. With allergies in our family they make the perfect pets for us. My husband had a snake as a child so it was only a matter of time before we got one. I, myself was always deathly afraid of snakes my whole life (thanks to an ex husband but that's another story!) Now you can't keep Choas out of my hands. We've been asked to do a reptile show and tell at our sons's school but not planning on it until it gets warmer. Most of my friends are petrified of my pets and wig out even my MIL but she's getting better i think someday soon we may even get her to hold one of them...lol My mom well i have to frisk her before she leaves just to make sure she hasn't slipped anyone in her pockets! I hope to increase our snake population slowly we're going to my husband's friend's house who has a large number of them and i may just come home with a new friend. LOL