You know you are a herper when....

Everyone add your own "You know you are a herper when...." lines ;) I think this can be kinda fun.

Here we go:


You know you are a herper when you excessively buy plastic tubs but don't ever intend to use them for storage.

You know you are a herper when you have a room in your house known as the 'reptile room'.

You know you are a herper when you don't find it disgusting to have frozen rats right next to the filet mignon in your freezer.

you know your a herper when you convince your kids they WANT pet rats instead of a puppy!

..when.. you buy food at the grocery store based on how nice a hide box the container it comes in would make.

..when.. your house is heated to 82 degrees.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

..when.. you buy food at the grocery store based on how nice a hide box the container it comes in would make.

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Bahahaha! That is awesome!

You know you're a herper when....


- you buy bunnies and it's nowhere near easter

- you are more concerned with your breeder rats love life than your own

- you find out Wendy is expecting a new baby, turn from the computer and holler to your husband "hey honey, Wendy's gravid!!!"

- you actually follow Matt's (Smulkin) advice and inform your 4 year old the rats that are suspiciously "missing" have left home for rat college and other rat related lifestyles

- none of your friends ever ask anymore "so how are your snakes?"


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Bahahaha! That is awesome!

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It's true too. :P

I know I am far gone..

My burm is furnished with Lean Cuisine hide boxes, while my female anaconda has some chinese food trays.

The blood pythons have graduated to kitty litter pans, and the dumerils boa is the queen - furnished with a jumbo trash can.

---you could stay in the plastic storage isle of Wal-mart for hours, dreaming of the possibilities.

---when your relatives give you money they tell you: "Now, don't use this to buy rats!"

---at the end of the day, you go around and steal all the extra newspapers laying around at work

---you buy paper-towels in industrial quantities

---you buy baby food, not for a baby, but because you have hungry geckos at home

---you stand in the baby food isle, debating whether the geckos would like apricots or bananas better

I need to go out and grab a big kitty litter box for my big girl!


You know you are a herper when your neighbor knocks on your door to tell you she accepted your delivery of "Rodent Pro, frozen meat". It doesn't seem out of the ordinary to you but she is clearly disturbed by it.

-lobster roaches start to look cute.
-you go to the sporting goods store a lot to refill your Co2 bottle, yet you've never gone paintballing in your life.

when the postal delivery woman asks 'whatchafeeding today?' when she brings a "live delivery" to your home.

...when... your girlfriend jokes about having kids and (being that she's from the country) you reply with, "yeah, our kids would all be 100% het for white trash!"

---you've used up your allotted space in your apartment for cages and racks, and have started asking friends if they're using their extra closet space

...you here the the clerk and a customer discussing which moniter to get and you break in and say, "get an ackie! best beginner monitor out there. they stay small and they're really easy to care for!" and they look at you like your crazy.

...you go to the pound to size up kittens and puppys.

...you own more books on reptiles then you do school books.(thats me!)

...you made your dad slow down and stop whenever you saw good reptile habitat on the way to and from disneyland because you know southern CA has some awesome herpotefauna!(thats me!)

...your 13 and know what herpetefauna means and actually use it in sentances(hehehe)

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Originally Posted by mr~python

...you here the the clerk and a customer discussing which moniter to get and you break in and say, "get an ackie! best beginner monitor out there. they stay small and they're really easy to care for!" and they look at you like your crazy.

...you go to the pound to size up kittens and puppys.

...you own more books on reptiles then you do school books.(thats me!)

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Good except for the kittens and puppy one.

lol, i got that from somewhere. cant remember where though.

.....the UPS guy says "Here's Lunch" when he delivers crickets and mealworms.

when a friend asks "how big is your baby?" and you respond "14' and over 100lbs"

---you're actually excited to see a lump of poo sitting in the corner of the tub

~ you have heat lights pointed at your couch for a 95 degree basking spot.

~ you buy a house because the weeds on the lawn are good for your iguana.

~ you start a thread called "You know your a herper when....". LOL, had to :P

oh yeah.....You do a happy dance cuz the mealworm aliens are FINALLY morphing into beetles.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

oh yeah.....You do a happy dance cuz the mealworm aliens are FINALLY morphing into beetles.

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Congrats!


You know you are a herper when you hear caramel, cinnamon, lemon, and butter and don't think of any kinda food.

I have been following this thread for awhile, but my "you know you're a herper if"..was already taken. So I have been sitting here wondering what to post to this one, and I just caught it in my own post.

You know you're a herper when, you ask fellow herpers to possibly post a pic of thier rodent pick up from a new supplier to see how they package them in comparison to your current rodent supplier.

My other one that was taken was..you know you're a herper when you go to the local market to buy baby food and a cashier asks, "ohh how old is your baby and can I see a pic?" and you tell her as you whip out the pic of your crested geckos, these are my babies, I have 3, and she politely says " wow, you must be busy with triplets", and after looking at the pic, she gives you an odd look and says, those are lizards, not babies. So you reply "well, they are not just any lizard, they are crested gecko, and yes they are MY babies!"

Truth me told, this happened last week to me!

Lol, Jeanne! That is too funny!

I always feel like such a dork in the baby food isle... especially when I only grab a couple of jars. They must think I'm starving the poor kid!

Hey Jeanne, have you ever gotten your Mali to eat baby food? Mine is just a picky eater. It has to be shredded carrots and either chicory or turnip greens/collard greens or he ignores it. I wish he would eat a better variety of foods.

You know Lynn, its funny, when my kids were young enough to eat baby food, I NEVER bought it, I made it myself.... but now, I think cause I am older and realize how much work it is to make it and find a way to store it, now that I have geckos to eat that, I refuse to make it, esp. now since they have organic stuff available.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

Hey Jeanne, have you ever gotten your Mali to eat baby food? Mine is just a picky eater. It has to be shredded carrots and either chicory or turnip greens/collard greens or he ignores it. I wish he would eat a better variety of foods.

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Actually, he gets some occassionally. He does not eat it like it is going out of style or anything, but he sure loves his greens ALOT. He eats the same mix I give my dragons, I found that the more "tart" (not sure if thats the right description) type of greens really attract them to the food. Or those that seem to have really strong smells. When I feed all my veggie eating lizards, I like to add things that make thier food smell stronger, like fresh parsley in small amounts, italian parsley and cilantro along with the ones you mentioned. Kale is a winner around here in any mix too.

...you asked for a snake hook for your birthday(:rolleyes:)


...you've corrected steve irwin on a scientific name(:yes:)

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Originally Posted by mr~python

...you've corrected steve irwin on a scientific name(:yes:)

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Hahha, I have too!

You ever wonder why , even though he lives in Australia, and he has done some episodes on native goannas (sp) and a few other species, yet not a darn thing on beardies or cresties???

... you hear the word proven on a food commercial and think of that leo you saw at the reptile show (happened to me yesteday lol)

. . . you size up all other animals based on whether a mondo boid (retic/burm/afrock/conda) could swallow them.

. . . . you always check out the sterelite section at the dept store

. . . you not only KNOW what "hemipenes" are you drop it into non-herping conversation.

. . . . you beg out of chores after dinner claiming you don't want to regurge

. . . . your electric bill from all the specialty lighting in your house gets you flagged with the local authorities

. . . . you scoff at "snake scenes" in the movies on immediately ID'ing the species, native locale etc

....when people ask u how many pets u have and u answer "1, no 2! no wait...how long does it need to be alive to be qualified as a pet?" (true story!)

EDIT: i thought up another one....when ur parents see u online looking at a page full of balls and racks and are totally fine with it.

You start using terms like BP, RTB, BD, Crestie, Auri, het, DH... and so on.


Your new vocabulary brings you odd looks from you friends :)

...your neighbors think your a photographer because the red light they see in your window.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

- you find out Wendy is expecting a new baby, turn from the computer and holler to your husband "hey honey, Wendy's gravid!!!"

~~Jo~~

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ROFLMAO!!! You crack me up Jo! As long as no one goes to shine a light on my stomach to see if I have any developing eggs in there we're all good!!

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Originally Posted by Jeanne

Hahha, I have too!

You ever wonder why , even though he lives in Australia, and he has done some episodes on native goannas (sp) and a few other species, yet not a darn thing on beardies or cresties???

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ive actually seen him do one thing on beardies but none on cresties. funny, i never thought of that.

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Originally Posted by mr~python

ive actually seen him do one thing on beardies but none on cresties. funny, i never thought of that.

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Dang Marshall, I missed an episode apparently. I am a "Steve-O Junkie", I cant help it, only cause he does show you some awesome species, which most of the time, when it is something I know nothing about, if it is interesting enough, I research it more later or while watching. Although, he has done some dangerous stuff and paid for it in the end... and then you have to ask yourself :confused: is he thinking?

well it was a loong looong time ago. and im still waitin for them to do the re-run with the ball python. that was a even looong loonger time ago.

when... you hear about free bunnies and wonder how much it would cost to ship them to jo for her 'campers'.

...when your fiancee asks if your corn breeder has any balls, and it doesn't sound at all odd to you. Nor does replying "No he doesn't" without malice. (We had that conversation before I even joined this forum. It actually took us a few minutes to realize how bad/weird/wrong that sounded, lol)

....when you walk into your local petstore and before you can even ask someone to be paged to small animals, 8 mice and a small rat are in two boxes ready for you in the back (they were expecting you 30 minutes ago!)

....when someone at work makes the mistake of bringing up your snakes on a half hour break, and everyone else in the break room in relegated to have to listen to it for the next half hour.....and sometimes into the next break too! (They've learned to keep their mouths shut now)

....when your name is Adam and you receive a phone call during dinner from someone wanting to talk snakes and says "hey, got a second?" and the next thing you know its after midnight. (I'm just guessing on this one)

....any time (regardless of situation) that you say "ROCK ON!!"

....someone you know mentions something about karma and immediately associate it with "Cuff" and "Link" (I get this a lot being a blackjack dealer... people always trying to get on karma's good side.

----- A take off on this, is when anyone mentions "the lesser of two evils" you can only think of one thing.
----- Your shopping for rings, and they mention platinum and you say "Oh, I love platties!"

....you BUILT a seperate room onto your house to house your herps and the new ones on the way.

....you move the 13 year old in with the 3 year old so you can have a quarantine room. (naw.... I wouldn't do that..... :oops: )

....your girlfriend says "Honey, what would you like for Christmas?" and before you can draw in your breath, she exclaims "YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING SNAKE RELATED, SO DON'T EVEN ASK!!!"

FREE BUNNIES! where! where! LOL


You know you're a herper when....

- you sat your teenagers down for "the talk" about it ended up being about hets and morphs and punnet squares....

- your 12 year old informs you that she will one day have her very own Platty Daddy and you actually consider giving her Ralph's phone number..... (still amazes me that she even knows what a "Platty Daddy" is LOL)

- you don't freak when your teenage son (or your loving husband for that matter) mentions a nice rack he saw (though you still immediately ask for clarification of that statement LOL)...

- you mention to two forum friends that you haven't been feeling well and they suggest your husband should "up your temps and mist you"...and MIKE ACTUALLY CONSIDERS THIS A VIABLE OPTION! (you women know who are you LMAO)

- you check your new rat pups and have to chant "I don't care if you are cute, you are still food!" over and over to convince yourself...

- you get an answering machine message from someone who calls herself "Kashmire's mommy" and you think this is perfectly normal....

- you begin to think of your 4 kids as 2.2!



~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

- you get an answering machine message from someone who calls herself "Kashmire's mommy" and you think this is perfectly normal....

~~Jo~~

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Who would do such a thing? That's just too sappy!!!! ;)

- you get a call from Joanna and you say "Hi Jo! How are your balls?" and your boy friend doesn't get upset


- you are in Yahoo chat with 3 other women and you're all looking at the same website with available female balls and they convince you to put a deposit on one (or two) even after you protest that you have to save your money to buy Christmas presents.

-you know that you should be getting work done, but can't pull yourself away from this darn website! (I am currently battling this one)

...Your idea of a great date is to go to the local herp show, and you are equally interested in the various herps and how your date reacts to them, (okay way more interested in the herps than your date, but you can't actually tell him that)

....You have posted links to this site on your LJ with the Title "I am in love"...he goes by the name ...... and you link to one of Kara's lovely pics

- You're in AIM chat with 3 other women friends and you are talking about MEN (well okay only Adam, Ralph, Joe, Will but hey they are men that breed the snakes we want LMAO)

Geesh Robin who would talk you into buying snakes rather than silly Christmas presents for some family member that probably forgets to call you on your birthday or errrrrrrr (gimme a minute I'm thinking up more justifications here!) LOL


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

- You're in AIM chat with 3 other women friends and you are talking about MEN (well okay only Adam, Ralph, Joe, Will but hey they are men that breed the snakes we want LMAO)
~~Jo~~

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Or trying to set up one of the women friends with another ball python lover from another forum, but she won't go for it!

When your friends have a baby, you ask them what kind of substrate they keep her on:D

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Originally Posted by iceman25

When your friends have a baby, you ask them what kind of substrate they keep her on:D

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. . . . you tell poeple you have 3.0 kids

. . . . you alweays her the "paper or plastic" options at the supermarke checkout as "Glass or plastic" (yeah i know they dont do that anymore don't burst my bubble or dub no bass with my head man)

. . . you constantly refer to ppls carpeting/flooring as substrate (nice rosewood parquet substrate, beautiful low-pile substrate, decadent shag substrate etc)


. . . . ppl wonder what you are doing with all the newspaper you bum off them


. . . unexplained noises no longer spook you in the classic sense - they just make you rush to do a headcount of critters to make sure none got out and are slithering around.