back in the day

i never got to own one when i was a kid at home. my mom was scared of them and my dad has some weird thing about not wanting a pet that eats other animals.:rolleye2:

i have just one now, my wife doesn't like her but yet i don't like her 2 puppies that like to poop either. thinking of getting another one soon.

How did they take it??? Well, I'll admit I didn't even ask lol I just showed up at home one night with a ball python. It was stupid I know but I've always kept weird animals and my parents never cared. I had to give up all of my chinchillas (I had 11 at one time), my leos and my rats when I joined the Army 3 years ago and I was dying for an animal so I got a BP (it was kind of an impulse buy but I quickly found this site and got everything right for her lol). So I show up at home and my dad, keep in mind he's 6'4" 250+ lbs and I've never seen him scared of anything in his life, THREW A FIT! He's apparently scared to death of snakes! My mom loved her , all my brother loved her but my dad was not having it.

He actually kicked me out of the house! He told me either I put her in the freezer or he was calling the cops. So I grabbed all of my stuff (luckily I hadn't really even unpacked since I got back from the Army lol) and moved in with my gf for a couple months.

So fast-forward. I'm now living at home again (hate it but it's cheap) and I now have 17 snakes (with three more coming soon) lol. My dad is still a little baby around them but he tolerates it because he knows I love them.

Sorry for the long post lol. Just wanted to share :banana:

What a fun thread! Lets see. I didn't have a snake as a kid but played with garter snakes that I caught then released.

It took me 24 years to talk my husband into getting one, lol. When he was 5 some kids threw a live snake at him and since then was very afraid. It was when I found a baby rat snake last year that he finally relented. (I released the rat back after finding out you can't keep snakes here you find) I then got a corn. In August I went to a herp show and got my bp and king I have now. I promised him no more snakes but not sure if he believes me, lol. Right now I have 3 dogs, 2 cats, 9 fish tanks (down from 30) and 3 snakes.

My dad did not want me to have any but my mom talked him into it after about five months. I remember my first trip to our local desert in Palm Springs to catch my snake. I wound up catching two desert Rosy Boas and a Long Nose Snake, I have been hooked ever since.

Gary

took me up until 6th grade to convince them and now i have 3 my mom likes them just not the eating part

I never had to convince my parents...the only person I had to convince was myself. I was bit by a garter snake as a kid and after that was terrified of snakes. I even had recurring nightmares about them for years. And now BOTH my kids wanted a snake and I wasn't having it! Well until my son (who was 8 at the time) explained what a silly fear it was for Mommy to have...yes it took the logic of an 8 year old to change my mind. We had been to reptile shows and pet stores and my kids would hold snakes like it was no big deal and I finally figured if they could do it so could I :rolleyes: In the beginning I was very hesitant to take them out of their enclosures much less hold them - I think I wore gloves for the first month or so (plus long sleeved baggy sweatshirts so they couldn't bite me). I look back now and laugh :P

So now we have 3 BP's and I don't know how I ever lived without them :D

I told my mom that i was getting one, she said no, I went out and got one, she said it couldnt come in the house, i brought it in the house, she said she doesnt want to ever have to see it, and I play with her all the time.

My parents (mainly my mom) and I share a true love for animals, so we've always had a lot of them around. To be honest I haven't owned a reptile until a few weeks ago.

I'm older and live on my own so I didn't have to ask anyone, still I'm fairly certain my parents would have been okay with a snake as long as I agreed to take care of it and showed I had the knowledge to do so.

Not an issue in my house :)
My son wanted a ball python and so we did the research together and we now have 13 of them with a couple of them breeding this year.
When I wanted to get some boas, no one blinked an eye! :D

like many of you, i have a mother who is a snake-a-phobe. if she ever accidentally wonders into the reptile room in the pet store she freezes up, closes her eyes, and screams for help lol.

"lucky" for me my parents were trying to go through a divorce. man, my mom grew a pair then. she was taking chances like she never did before and really taking the reigns. i guess she was pretty happy to be getting rid of my dad. (or so she thought)

anyway, about that time a friend of mine had to get rid of his black rat snake. he was borrowing the cage from his aunt, and she needed it back and he was left with nowhere to put the snake. i found a tank and begged my mom for the snake. pleading, "the poor little guy has nowhere to go!" and "i'm just going to take care of him for a little while till we find him a permanent home" (yeah right)

she finally caved in and said i could "hold" the snake. i went to go pick up hermin, the black rat snake. it became quite clear to me, my own uneasyness for snakes. i was very nervous and i relaized that that was the first time i had ever touched a snake. for some reason that had never occured to me before i went to go pick him up. my friend put him in my hands and he noticed i was shaking, which i tried to play off lol. but i was determined, i was going to like hermin even if it killed me. lol.

i got hermin home and "all set up". at that time i had no idea what "all set up" was. i actually got the aquarium from my grandma and it didn't have a snake-proof lid so i proceded to take some chicken wire and ductape it around the top. bad idea. hermin lifted the tape off the cage and escaped 3 times before i figured out what kind of lid he needed. i got 2 different calls at work from my mom, screaming, telling me to come home right now find the snake.

we all finally got used to hermin, and 3 months later i found a new snake that i liked, but my mom said i couldn't have any more. so i got rid of hermin, and got a new one. i still have her. Lady, the amel. corn snake. i still regret getting rid of hermin, he had a little bit of an attitude, but he was my first and i really loved him. unfortunately, the pet store i was letting sell him, let him out in their yard because nobody would buy him. i was really upset, and glad to see the hole-in the-wall pet store go under a few months later.

thats the end of hermin, my first snake.