How many do YOU own?

Hey guys, just for fun, I wanted to see who owns what and how many. Can be herps, fish, cats, spouses (LOL).. just curious. It's hard to keep track of everyone's snakes, I love them all!!

I'll start:

5.7 ball pythons, all normal except a pair of 100% het albino's;
0.0.1 california kingsnake (lavender albino)
1.0 amazon tree boa (garden phase)
2.0 Tiger rattlesnakes
1.0 cockatiel
1.0 human boyfriend :p

Ok, your turn!
Jennifer

0.0.1 Ball Python (betting on female)
1.0.0 Normal Corn Snake
0.0.1 Ghost Corn Snake
0.0.1 California Kingsnake
0.0.1 Mexican Black Kingsnake

48 tarantulas (diffferent species from around the world, and more to come)
4 scorpions (various old world species)
1 Trap Door spider
1 Black Hole spider
1 Black Widow

3 pet rats
2 dogs

1 wife
1 kid

.......uh......I think that's it.

LOL...thats great. I know I read this in another post, but DANG! 48 TARANTULA'S??? GEEEEEZ I can't believe that. I'm guessing they aren' too hard to take care of? and they shed or "molt" just like snakes, huh? That's really cool, thanks for sharing!

Oh yeah, are you planning on breeding your corns together (If the ghost is a female)? :mrgreen:

Jennifer

1.1 Python regius (Monty Python & Cheetah)
1.1 Gerrhosaurus major (Falkor & Gizmo)
0.0.3 Cordylus tropidosternum (Rocco, Senna & Zoë)
1.0 Parakeet (Goofy)
0.1 Rabbit (Lucky)
aquarium (about 20 fishes)
mice (1.4 breeding & a bunch of litter)
1.0 husband

Hands down, tarantulas are one of the easiest pets to take care of. And yes, they molt, similiar to snakes. But when a spider molts, it does more than shed it's exoskeleton. It gets new fangs, new lungs, lost legs can be replaced, new hairs, etc.

And my wife asked me the very same quetion today if I plan on breeding the Corns if the Ghost turns out to be female. Sure. Why not? The world needs more snakes to love.

Click on the link below my name to see some of my critters!

Marcus

Heres my inventory-LOL


3 male bp's
3 male ferrets
1 male lovebird
3 male hamsters (1 is a black bear, the other 2 are dwarves)
lots and lots of mice
1 female AFT gecko
5 guppies (1 female and 4 males)
2 fire belly toads
1 female red nose beagle
1 male human- my father
1 male human- my hubby
1 male human- my son
1 female human- my daughter
and ME!!

@ I know I am forgetting someone, but thier name escapes me at the moment..hehehe

4.4 Ball Pythons-2 males are grandkids of het piebald, 8) one male is 50% het albino, as well as grandkid of a het axanthic. :D All the females, and one male, are unknown genetics, assuming normal.
0.0.1 Albino Cali Kingsnake
0.1 BCI
0.0.1 Pterinochilus Murinus Tarantula
20-30 feeder/breeder rats
0.1 spouse
1.3 kids
0.1 Shih Tzu

Names are as follows, in the same order as above:
Eddy, Zeus, George, Joe, Maggie, Julie, Noobie, Roswell,
Callie,
Jazzy,
Pteri,
Snakefood, Snakefood, Snakefood, Snakefood, Snakefood, Snakefood, Snakefood, Snakefood, well, you get the idea....
Chauna (pronounced Shauna)
Mitchell, Andrea, Rachelle, Kyre (pronounced K-ear-uh)
Bridgette

0.0.2 corns okeetee and amel
1.1 bp's
0.0.1 BCI
1.1 cats
0.1 lab x border colly
0.0.1 fish
0.1 gf

What's a "BCI"?

2 ball pythons, 1 male and one unsexed (Peanut and Bubba)
0.1 terrier/spaniel mix (mutt like whoa) named Sunny.
3.8 cats. ozzy, lilly, rudy, skittles, whinny, beans.. um, lots more.. (yes i know it's getting to be rediculous)
my momma,
my daddy,
and my 2 sisters.

BCI = boa constrictor imperator = Red Tail Boa aka columbian boa.

0.2 kitties
1.2 Bp's
0.0.2 american toads
1.2 green anoles.... One is free roaming as I write this...

I'd like to have a few kittens, but not gonna happen. Herps and kitties are my thing.

Here's mine:
Varanids:
0.1.0 Nile Monitor
0.1.0 Argus Monitor
0.0.1 Asian Water Monitor
Misc. Lizards:
0.2.0 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Velvet Gecko
0.0.1 Green Iguana
Colubreds:
0.1.0 Taiwan Beauty
0.0.1 Albino Gopher X Corn Snake
0.0.1 Albino Corn snake
0.0.1 Corn Snake
0.0.1 Trans Peco Rat snake
0.0.1 Spectacled Rat snake
Boids:
0.1.0 Macklottes Python
0.1.0 Indian Python
0.1.0 Diamond Carpet Python
0.0.2 Coastal Carpet Pythons
0.0.2 Central Carpet Pythons
1.3.0 Ball Pythons
1.1.0 Burmese Pythons
Chileans:
0.0.1 Red Eared Slider
1.0.0 Russian Tortoise
Amphibians:
1.0.0 Argentina Horned Toad
0.0.1 Whites tree frog
Arachnids:
0.1.0 Desert Hairy Scorpion
0.0.1 African Flat Rock Scorpion
2.2.0 Chilean Rose tarantulas
0.1.0 Rio Grand Gold Tarantula
0.0.1 Goliath Bird eater Tarantula
0.1.0 Blue Bottle Green Tarantula
0.2.0 Mexican red Knee tarantula
0.1.0 Sri Lanken Ornamental Tarantula
0.1.0 Indian Ornamental Tarantula
0.1.0 White Striped leg Tarantula
0.0.1 Mexican Red rump tarantula
0.1.0 Curly Hair Tarantula
0.0.2 Mystery Tarantulas
Misc. Insects:
0.0.1 Vinagaroon
0.0.1 African Giant Millipede
Mammals:
0.2.0 Homosapians (husband, child)
3.3.0 Ferrets
0.1.0 Rabbit (Stewie)
This does tend to change some depending on different rescues. All of the animals from above were all rescued. Except for the Indian Python (NERD) and many of the arachnids were purchased.
I think that's it.
Thanks
RUSTY

Hey, Rusty, how bout some pics of the Indian and Burmese pythons in the appropriate forum? I love both, and I understand Indians aren't that common in the US.

I'll charge up the camera..lol
give me a couple of days, I'll post em up
thanks
Rusty

Burms....mmmm

I have:
0.0.2 Bearded Dragons
0.0.1 Cockatiel
0.1 bp call Cherile
0.1 cockel spaniel call Lady
3.0 siberian hamsters
Jesús

Jesus- Did you name you cocker spaniel after the movie "lady and the tramp"?

Nice collections everybody! Keep them coming! (Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention; any PICS would be great, too!) :mrgreen:

Jennifer

1.1 ball pythons (Vince and Eleanor)
1.3 leopard geckos (Harley, Daphne, Greta, Bindi-Sue)
1.0 boxer
2.0 cats
0.0.6 gold fish
5.0 siamese fighters

Rusty, your collection sounds awesome. I'd love to see your reptile room.

Yes, that'd be awsome. Do that :)

Ok everyone can come over and check out the rescue, but you have to bring beer..lol
We are "iced" in at the moment..lol
I need COFFEE!!
Rusty

Current:
1.0 Ball Pythons
1.0 Kitties

After college, I'll be adding:
0.1 Ball Pythons
0.1 Columbian Red Tailed Boas

Oh yeah, almost forgot 0.1 Girlfriend :D
http://216.228.173.66:81/snakes/IMG_0101.jpg

hmm, this is a really weird picture now that I look at it, it reminds me of that old woman / young lady optical illusion

Only one critter in my house right now...but someday we'll have more...

1.0 red cape gopher snake - Caesar
1.0 husband - Dean
0.1 daughter - Petra
2.0 sons - Austin & Nathaniel

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2.0 sons - Austin & Nathaniel

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Love your sons names Judy!
My hubby is pushing for a little one (No comments peanut gallery..lol), but I am pretty happy with my beautiful stepson Griffin, consider him my own! Great kid, he teaches me something new about life everyday.
Like "Why does that iguana have a dulap mommy?" yes. he is only 4! Daddy taught him that the thing on the new iggies chin is a dulap, he comes up with great questions thou!
Rusty

Thanks Rusty!

Kids are awesome...but oh so hard to raise! They start out so "simple" as tiny newborns, who just need lots of love and milk and sleep and diapers. Then they start to grow up.....LOL I'm dreading the teen years. Petra is 10 going on 16 already. Austin and Nathaniel are 8 and 20-months.

How long have you been Griffin's stepmom? He's a very lucky little boy, from what I've seen here on the forum! :)

Heres mine:

1.1.2 Amazon Tree Boas
1.1 Sonoran Desert Boas
1.1 Anery. Kenyan Sand Boas
1.1 Ball Pythons
1.0 Savu Python
0.1 Borneo Blood Python
0.1 Black Blood Python
1.0 Western Hognose
0.1 Ghost Corn (het. for anery)
0.0.1 Hypo Corn
1.0 Bearded Dragon

My girlfriend also has:
2.1 Leopard Geckos
0.0.1 Schneider's Skink

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How long have you been Griffin's stepmom? He's a very lucky little boy, from what I've seen here on the forum!

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Thanks so much, aww you made me smile :oops:
Griffin is my husband Winslow's son. Win has been my best friend for ten or so years, I introduced Winslow and Katie (Katie is Griff's biological mom) about 6 years ago. Griffin was born in 99'. Katie was a wonderful and beautiful mother and person. Sadly in January of 2001 Katie was killed by a drunk driver. Griffin was the only survivor of the accident. Luckily he pulled through, and I just recently married Winslow last october. It seemed to fit for us. And Griffin has known me his whole life, he knows his mommy #1 is in heaven watching over us and all of the reptiles. He is such an amazing child.
Rusty

i have ...

1 bp
1 husband
2 boys...............
my husband wants more, i want to make sure we take care of SIXX correctly, first..........

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my husband wants more, i want to make sure we take care of SIXX correctly, first..........

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always a good plan, But I bet you guys will have more soon, it can be very addicting
Thanks
Rusty

i didn't want SIXX, but now i have him more than anyone..........i'll feel better when he starts eating again!!!! take care

I want more, too, but want to get my housing situation worked out first so I know if I'll have a herp room and won't have to move any more animals than necessary. I need to get some female balls to go with the poss het pied and albinos and I think I want to get a few leopard geckos. They're so pretty

0.0.1 ball python
1.0 bichon frise (dog)
0.1 Akita (dog)
1.0 cat
1.0 rabbit
2.1 mice ( strangely enough one is a pet that ive had for about 2 years)
1.0 chipmunk ( i found the thing under my deck after my cat hurt it and i nursing it back to health. There was no external injury but he just drags his back legs around. i cant afford to take him to the vet so they can charge me hundreds of dollars on something that will probably not even make it.)

ohh and i almost forgot. i have 5 chickens and 2 ducks

Let's see...

1.0 Ball Python
1.0 Red Tail Boa
0.0.1 Bearded Dragon
0.1 Boston Terrier

Fish (cichlids in a few different tanks): Midas, Motaguense, Convict, Severum, Managuense, & 2 Plecos

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Originally Posted by JLC

Kids are awesome...but oh so hard to raise! They start out so "simple" as tiny newborns, who just need lots of love and milk and sleep and diapers. Then they start to grow up.....LOL

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I have to agree with Judy. Everyone complains about newborns and never getting any sleep or the terribles twos, but that's the easy part. Smulkin and I have 3 boys ages 11, 12, and 14. Each is awesome in his own way, but, man, somedays you just want to tear your hair out - or theirs, either way.

The great thing about pets is they never really leave that stage of just needing food, sleep, exercise, and love. My signature tells you most of what we have in our house. We also have a dwarf hamster and four mice that were supposed to be food but have now been adopted by our 11-year-old (our budding zoologist/veterinarian).

And Rusty, I have sincere admiration for you - the work you do with the herps and the family you have made for yourself. Kudos.

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Originally Posted by JLC

Kids are awesome...but oh so hard to raise! They start out so "simple" as tiny newborns, who just need lots of love and milk and sleep and diapers. Then they start to grow up.....LOL

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I have to agree with Judy. Everyone complains about newborns and never getting any sleep or the terribles twos, but that's the easy part. Smulkin and I have 3 boys ages 11, 12, and 14. Each is awesome in his own way, but, man, somedays you just want to tear your hair out - or theirs, either way.

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Speaking as a mom of 11 and 13 year old girls, I don't think there's really a net change in difficulty level, just what types of challenges you face. My 13 year old slept for 20 minutes at a clip and still has trouble sleeping all the way through the night (though now she just reads instead of needing Mom); the 11 year old, on the other hand, slept through the night literally from day 1 (though there was an ugly phase of getting up at 1 AM for months at a time). On the one hand, I don't have to dress them or carry a diaper bag everywhere I go or worry about holding two little hands all the way through the store, but on the other hand I didn't have to worry about their friends, peer pressure, or hormones at the younger ages. It's easier to me now to parent them than when they were little, but this age definitely has its own challenges.

Yes...the challenges definitely change. I guess it depends a lot on the parent and on the kid as to whether those new challenges are harder than the earlier ones or not. To me...it's very tiring to have a baby/toddler for the very reasons you stated...lugging around diapers, having to constantly be alert to everything they do, holding hands and keeping them in check wherever they go.....etc etc. But that's easier than dealing with some of the issues we're facing now....learning difficulties, peer pressure, hormones, idiotic decisions due to severe lack of judgement...etc etc. But some of my current exhaustion could be based on a particularly traumatic weekend we just had that I haven't yet recovered from. :( Still....I wouldn't trade the kids for anything in the world...even if I do want to pull my hair out (or theirs, as Smynx so aptly stated!)!

ball pythons: 3.6 (2 normal males and 1 het for albino male, 6 normal females)

boas: 1.1 (1 male hypo and 1 bci female)

corn snakes: 1.1 reverse okeetee
1.1 candy cane
1.1 yellow creamsicle
0.2 albino
1.1 striped anrey
0.1 striped albino
0.1anrey het for pastel
1.0 anrey motley het for pastel
1.2 anrey
1.0 snow
0.1 sunglow
0.2 normal
1.0 ghost

bearded dragons: 5.3 normal and red gold

blue tongued skink: 0.1

leopard geckos: 26 i can't how many of each sex, normals, hi yellows,patternless, albinos, jungles and double het for patternless albino

labs: 0.2 1 black and 1 yellow

Ferrit: 1.0

timor monitor: 1.1

horse: 0.1 Quarter horse

wife: 0.1

i think that is it.

i own the world.

Will don't make me come over there..lol :twisted:

I wanted to thank you guys for your kind words.
I hope that I wasn't a downer with my last post, the experiences that my family and I have had have been dealt with and of course are emotional but we live it everyday. So I guess I don't really think of how others will perceive it when first hearing it. It is a very tragic situation, but we have done our best with it, and all three of us live very happy lives. Griffin has really taught me so much about life and how to be a mom, and Winslow has been teaching me how to survive and be "me" for the past ten years. We love it.
Of course when Griff turns thirteen, well thats a whole different story...lol
If he turns out to be like his dad (which he is already a minature version of) my hands are going to be very very full..lol
But I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Live your life to the fullest, and never take anything for grantid.
Sincerely
Rusty

1.2 ball python
0.1.1 red tail boa
0.0.1 snow corn snake
1.2 tokay gecko
1.3.15 mice (and more coming soon)
1.2 pet rats (2 hairless)
0.1 english bulldog
0.1 kitten
4 oscars, 2 perch, 1 pelco, 1 striped raphael, 1.1 betta fish, 1 tiger barb

Rusty, i belive ive said it before, but ill say it again...you are my idol. and the cool name is a plus too...

i got whatevers in my signature, in adition to whatevers living in my backyard. they are kinda like my pet:). the black widows are startin to come out. i have a web in my water meter box(havent actually seen the spider...just the new webbing) and one on the corner of my patio. the one on the patio is a juvie female...still has stripes on its back. i tried to catch the juvi...long story short i couldnt get close before it ran for cover. i was using a meal worm beetle for bait.
i also saw the first tree lizard of spring...
http://img15.photobucket.com/albums/...er/lizard1.jpg

0.0.0 Ball Pythons but soon to have 1.0.0
1 Cat
1 Dog
1 Sibling

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Sadly in January of 2001 Katie was killed by a drunk driver. Griffin was the only survivor of the accident. Luckily he pulled through, and I just recently married Winslow last october. It seemed to fit for us. And Griffin has known me his whole life, he knows his mommy #1 is in heaven watching over us and all of the reptiles. He is such an amazing child.

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you are the greatest!!! i know that was hard...

Here goes...
1.2 ball pythons (Goblin, Octavia, Ginger). Goblin's a huge male I picked up at a show last Sept; Octavia I bought from a good pet store as an '03 hatchling; Ginger was a rescue case from a moron who had her in bad conditions.


1.0 Albio Cranwell's frog (Bene)
1.1 Tiger Salamanders
1.1 african clawed frogs and the 300 or so tadpoles/froglets they have produced
1.1 leopard frogs, 1 green frog that's over 4 years old
125-gal. aquarium holding 5 young Oscar cichlids (one is 100% blind) and large pleco
55-gal. and 45-gal. aquariums, holding a bunch of fancy goldfish (they ARE cool pets) and a bunch of newly-hatched fry from them!
1.0 evil black kitty cat, Inky
0.1 uncatchable, untamable barn cat who made our garage its home
1.0 boyfriend, the most demanding of all! j/k
Will get a Budgett's frog soon, considering an albino axolotl. Hopefully adopting some unwanted horses this spring that would otherwise go to the dogfood factory. "you gotta keep yourself busy~!"

hmmm lemme see... i have

0.0.1 bp
0.0.1 leopard gecko (both the bp and the gecko are new)
2.0 cats

oh yea

1.0 hamster

Well I have a small list but here goes. 1.3 ball pythons all normals. 20 something mice. 0.1 dog mix terrier 1.0 cat. 1.0 crazy child and 0.1 Wife

Dang, how have I missed posting on this one? It's been going for a while!

Our list:

3.1.0 Dogs: Goober, Caleb, Jester, and Nikki
1.2.0 Cats: Bubba, Orion, and Captain Spiffy the Wonder Cat (my daughter named that one)
0.0.1 Birds: Brown Throat Conure Mario Cipollini, or just Cipo for short.
0.0.2 Anoles: No names.
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons: Kilroy, and Leila
2.1.0 Ball Pythons: Phil, Magellan, and Dixie
2.0.1 Fish: one Betta, one Ram, and one gender unknown goldfish
And Heaven only knows how many Mediterranean House Geckos that call our place their home.

One Python Regius.

Hoomi:
LOL....We were always catching geckos in the house and letting them go outside, both in Tucson and in San Antonio.

Captain Spiffy the Wonder Cat.....I LOVE that!!