Tell me a bit about yourself and your animals :)

Well I decided to make this. Because Im curious what every other snake person has in their animal family other than snakes? Ofcourse you can say what type of snakes you have. But please also put what type of other animals you have, and what type of animals you have always want in your family that you may have one day or maybe dreams of animal you always wanted but know you cannot have. This should be fun. I'll go first :)

First the snake. We have three. My snake is a Ball python. His name is Chester, here is a pic of him. He is 10 months old, and on small/small rats and going on 36" if not already there

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...s/Chester3.jpg

Mom has a corn snake almost 30" or so, a Bubblegum snow we believe, and she has a Columbian red tail boa.

We also have 6 breeder female rats and 4 boys. We've only bred the first 4 girls (the other two girls are the offspring(we also have 4 other girls, but we may grow them up for snake food) two girls had 15, and the other two had 12 and 13. And in a month and half the food is all gone. We love our rats. They get to run around outside thier cages throughout the day, ontop of their cages on their play toys, we must watch them or they'll get off, which a few do, and watch the cats.

Also have mice. 4 females, and a new male. All for females are pregnant and should have babies soon within a week or two :)

Ivan moms corn snake eat two 12 day old rat pups a week. Lily eat 2 jumbo rats every 9-10days. We got both malnourished, and very very skinny. More than likely both would of died. Lil is 2 and half yrs of age and almost 7 ft. She was on 1 medium rat every 14-21 days and Lily was very dehydrated (sane with Ivan when we got him at 13") Both grew incredibally since comming to live with us and both very happy and healthy. lol.

I have a dog, name Lindy. She is Rott and Australilan blue heeler. We had both parents, both AKC pure and papered.

We have three cats; Icy, Fiona and Twister.

We ofcourse have fish. Once we move we plan on building a pond on the ground and have a small bride over it and all, an dhaving some koi and other fishies in a tropical fresh water pond :)

Mom has a 2 an dhalf yr old Ferret name Rascal. but we call her RazzyDaz a lot. lol

And I have the birds in the house. I use to breed rare colored zebra finches and society finches. And I also bred hard to breed Orange weavers. And I bred Java Sparrows and Canaries. I quit breeding because I had to take down my aviary once we moved and had to give up my birds :( But hopefully once we move into our final home and all I'll be able to breed the birds I want to breed and all that stuff. I also had a budgie pair. And had some babies. I had to give up the 7 babies that I had for two years and handraised with the parents to someone down in Bremerton (sp?) Washington who has a two car garage aviary. They are much happier I believe :)

I have now two budgies, both very tame and sweet, a Handraised Starling turning 3 in May, a handraised House Sparrow turning 5 in May. And A Umbrella Cockatoo. I have to say birds are my fancy, I love them a lot. And love all animals. Birds are just the peek of my interests. I plan on becoming a rare bird breeder to rehab them in the wild and increase population. I'll have lots of research and tons to learn more before then, but this is what my Goal and I believe my Fate in life is :)

So please, tell me more about yourself :) Im curious how different and unique we all are :)

ps. Sorry for the long post. lol.

WOW!!! You have alot of pets! :eek:

ok so I have a few...

4 female bp's (norms)
1 male bp (norm)
1 male bp het albino

1 female corn (norm)
1 male albino corn

1 male red tail boa

1 female pitbull
1 female chow mix

1 female siamese cat
1 female orange tabby

1 Quaker bird

1 fantail fish


It is a ZOO around here!!! lol.

What I have


Dog (Rodhesian Ridge back / Pit Bull Mix)

Ball Pythons

1.1 Het Pied
1.1 Het Albino
1.1 Pastel Jungle
0.1 Spider
1.2 Normal

What I want

Ball Pythons

Albino
Piebald
BEL
Killer Bee
Lesser Bee
Silver Bullet
Super Pastel Orange Ghost
Pastel Clown

1.1 Blood Pythons

Oops forgot to post what I want 9ok I post a bit of what I want so let me finish, lol)

What I want;

To become a rare bird breeder and acquire more birds, so I wont get in great detail on this.

I want a female Ball python. I dont care too much of the morphs. Actually.. maybe I do. I want that $20,000 female Ruby Ball python. GORGEOUS! Chester would LOVE her! Or maybe I would just love her. lol. She is a babe!

I also wouldnt mind an Iguana. Beautiful animals. I would LOVE to have a large terraium or enclosure fo rmy reptiles to live in a more natural habitat. That would be pretty cool :)

Also I wouldnt mind having a horse, and Im sure my mom wouldnt either. lol.

I have A carpet python, 2 BP's, 1 corn snake, 2 cal. kingsnakes, 1 Luecistic Ratsnake,. A 2 borzoi,1 french bulldog, a persian cat and finches. We also have three tortoises, a large yellow foot , a russian and a three toed box turtle. An assortment of frogs , an anole and millepedes. We also have a hedgehog.

Right now i'm fostering my sons 2 redtails. So we have a full house. I have done rescue work most of my life. Not as much now as in the past. Vet bills can really pile up.

My main interest is the borzoi. I love dog showing. It gets in your blood like a disease. I had a paint horse I lost a couple years ago. That was my true passion. Plan on getting a quarter horse hopefully in the near future but have a lot of campaigning to do with the new borzoi. Want to wait till I have the time to devote to a horse. Showed horses a few times and did quite well. My second show out I took grand champion reserve in a class of 23. apparently showing dogs prior helped as far as experience. I almost had a heart attack!!:eek: It also helped that I was showing a dynamite horse for a friend. Max is great.
I am wanting to acquire a few more snakes. Have a spider ordered thru Adam, and I am waiting on a blue beauty and another LRT.
Animals are a very central part of our lives. They are a lot of work but bring so much enjoyment. Sorry for the long post but I could go on forever when the conversation is on animals.:D :D

Here goes. :)
My name's Jen. I work fulltime for a collections agency, in the payment department. Mark, my fiance, owns a property management and home renovation firm, and I enjoy helping him out with some aspects of that when I am not at work and not housecleaning/animal-house cleaning. ;) I live with Mark on a farm in western NY that we are renting, roughly 300 acres of hayfields, woods, creeks and pastureland. We are marrying this August, 25th and plan to buy a smaller farm in the area. My animals are my hobbies. We have two horses (mares); one is pending APHA (Paint) registry and is a solid sorrel. The other is a tovero who we will be registering as Pinto shortly. (darned registration fees are hard to come up with when planning a wedding!) I was thinking of adding them to our gift registry, hehe.) I am thinking of showing them in the far future, but no plans as yet. Here are some pics:
Cuesta (and me.) She is a direct granddaughter of one of my favorite QH atuds, Doc Bar. Her registered name will be Docs Malbec. :) coming 8 year old, great at trail riding, did some jumping.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...andjenny-1.jpg
Running with her ;06 filly, Jenny (sold her.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...jennyglp-1.jpg
And Emma, the Tovero :) 7 yr. old. Green broke last year b/c her previous owners did nothing with her.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...e/goodwmma.jpg
For BPs, I have 1.0 Spider and Pastel.. 1.4 normal girls, 1.0 het orange ghost. Three of my girls should have eggs this year; my first year breeding. Ginger had a clutch last year that unfortunately went bad and died. We also have a boa constrictor imperator (male) to round out the snake collection. Our other pets are: one black cat; Inky. 2.3 clawed frogs. 0.1 albino horned frog. And fish: 125g tank with Oscars, other cichlids, and plecos and catfish. 55g tropical community tank, and a 55g goldfish tank.
I plan on adding a White's tree frog to the familiy come springtime. :)
My other hobbies are drawing/painting, hiking, responsible ATVing, and guns. I mainly do .22 practice shooting, but I am applying for my pistol permit this spring. Nature in general is my passion. I would literally want to die if I did not have access to the natural, unspoiled wilderness on a daily basis. It is just in my blood to be out here, and like a diver I can go into urban areas like the diver goes underwater, and maybe even enjoy myself and see cool sights, but for my breath of fresh air I need to be back out in the country.
I grew up in the city of Buffalo, but spent much of my childhood roaming around with friends in a wooded railroad area nearby. It was just a spot that drew the "different" kids who were not preppy clones of each other (instead, they were black-nail-polish and hair-dyeing clones of each other, hehe.) I am still fascinated by creepy areas with few people such as abandoned buildings. But at 26, I have mellowed out a lot and turned away from the drug and partying culture that I used to frequent. I have few true friends and I like it this way; my best friend is a person who I have gone through a lot with since high school and still best friends with. And I could not be happier with my life any other way than what it is now; and it is still evolving!

I Live in a zoo lol
this is Bob my Royal (ball) python
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172351907
Bindi my Jungle Carpet
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352175
also reptile wise i have 1.3 normal leopard geckos and also this little beauty leo
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352314
and also Flea my tokay
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352385
i also live with this cheeky dude (Larry)
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352617
and this dude (jack)
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352692

and also heres Chad
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352806

also heres Fergus my 9 year old Ferret
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...g?t=1172352992

And for what i want.....
Bp morphs of course :D im still deciding between a lemon pastel or a spider ball for my very first bp morph :)

I am a snake noobie, and just got my adorable Pastel male a few weeks ago.
my husband and I have two Bengal cats, who are like children to us. They are both 8 years old now.
I have tons of fish and have been seriously into that hobby for about 10 years.

we own a very large property in NH and I have been toying with the idea of Alpaca and pheasants for awhile but it's such a big commitment it may be awhile before getting serious. I hit all the New England fairs to see the birds and pack animals :)

I am beginning to get into poison dart frogs, and definitely plan to expand my snake collection into arboreal species after I get a year or two of experience under my belt. A chameleon is high on my list as well, as is a tortoise.

I'm not getting any younger, so I have to get a move-on if I want to get into some of the long-lived reptiles :banned1:

Hmmm this could take forever LOL...

Well I'm Joanna and I'm married to Mike (McAdry here at BPNet). I have three older children from my previous marriage, Kate 19, Luke 15 and Beth 13 plus Mike and I produced Mikey age 5 (yes I am quite nuts thank you and having a baby at 40 was a trip LMAO!)

We currently have 15 snakes....13 ball pythons, 1 bci and 1 milksnake...three of the snakes are actually owned by Luke, Beth and Mikey. We also have one incredibly old and decript beta fish, Ping, a male crested gecko named Sprocket, four breeder mice that won't breed (go figure) and a good sized colony of breeder/feeder rats that are all way too spoiled for rats LOL.

We have a female 10 month old Boxer/Lab pup named Gunnar and recently took in a homeless pup...Tank...a male, about 6 months old possibly Pit/Lab cross.

Something around here is always either needing to be fed, just been fed, peed on something or somebody, ate someone's homework (yeah right what mom hasn't heard that excuse!), wants to know when dinner is, breeding, shedding, pooping, did I mention the peeing???, chewing my slipper (that's usually the pups but I wouldn't put it past those children of mine!) or needing a hug....I love my life...most days....as long as I can get up and put on the coffee in the morning AND NOBODY DRANK ALL THE MILK AND PUT THE JUG BACK IN EMPTY AGAIN!!!! :taz:

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AND NOBODY DRANK ALL THE MILK AND PUT THE JUG BACK IN EMPTY AGAIN!!!! :taz:

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ARGGGHHH! i hate when that happens lol

How funny I actually meant to type "SOMEBODY" but since the answer when I ask who actually did drink all the milk and toss an empty jug back in the fridge...is always that NOBODY did it, I guess it fits! I don't know who this "nobody" is but I do wish he or she would stop sneaking in my house and drinking my milk. I hate black coffee. :(

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

peed on something or somebody

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That is a classic, Jo.. yer the best!

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

That is a classic, Jo.. yer the best!

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I swear Jen one of my goals in life is to get so old and incontinent that it's my dang turn to piddle on the whole crew of em and get away with it! They've been doing it to me for years! :D

I'm a 22 year old college student, currently in my junior year. My major is English Literature--and while I first thought that being a Professor of English was my career path, I decided that publishing might be my thing. I'm applying for an internship with Houghton Mifflin in Boston, and hopefully they'll hire me on for the summer :) I'm really kind of a nerd at heart--love D&D, RPG-based PC games, Renaissance-faire type stuff...you get the picture :)

My pet list is really short.

I have one beautiful male NERD line lemon pastel named Auryn, who has only been with me 3 weeks. I also have a female beta fish named Chloe, who is a lovely turquoise-blue and does a "jumping" trick for her food.

:D

I have


1.1 het albino ball pythons
0.10 normal ball pythons
1.0 lemon pastel ball pythons
1.2 mixed cats
0.1 yorkie poo
0.0.1 red eared slider

I have quite a few animals, and suprisingly, all but one are not reptiles.

Starting with the reptile...

I have Zim (see my avatar). I purchased him from a petstore on December 5th, 2006. (I know, go with a breeder first) He is a Snow Corn. I'm not sure on age or length, but I'm going to try and get the weight tomorrow.

Now onto the non-reptiles...

Miki is my oldest cat. She's only 1 year and 3 months. She is a tortoiseshell and the one word to describe her is insane. She's lazy and fat and only wants attention when she says so. But when she does want love, she is a cuddlebug. When I was at college in April of 2006, my friends and I had heard there was a cat stuck in a tree on campus. Finally someone brought it down and it was a skinny little 5 month old kitten. No one could take it and all the shelters around were not no-kill, so I borrowed $50 from my mom and boarded her at the local vet for a week, and went home the following weekend. I convinced my mom to let me keep her and she's been with me ever since.

Tyran is my youngest cat. She is 11 months old. She is out to make trouble and make it look like a tornado hit my room. She knocks over everything that isn't glued down (and I've actually considered that a few times.) I got her from the local animal rescue. When I went in looking for a cat to keep Miki company while I was at work, I picked up this little 3 month old kitten and she immediatly flopped back into my arms like a baby. She started purring and I looked into those big eyes of hers and fell in love. I took her home about a week later. She's long and clumsy, but her and her sister are like my daughters.

The dogs. We have six, not all live in the same house (four at one and two at another). We'll start with the biggest ones. One samoyed and one samoyed mix. They live outside in a kennel. (My grandmother doesn't like big dogs) Thier names are Stosh and Winona. The next one is Lacey. She lives with my mom and she is very protective of my mom. She's attention-crazy and hates to be alone. She is a silky terrier. The other two are twins, coming from the same litter. Keltie and Haley. They are yorkshire terriers and they live with me. I don't even think they are dogs. They are like babies with fur. These 'dogs' don't even play with squeaky toys. The newest addition is a :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r:zu puppy named Bralyn. Fuzzy ball of biting energy.

I also have one betta named Jolly Rodger.

I think that completes the zoo, for now. Though I am currently looking into getting some leopard geckos.

Heh well...... I won't bore you with personal details as there's not too much to say, but I'll give you a more detailed version of my signature.

As for snakes, at this very moment, I have: two cornsnakes (0.1 snow, 1.0 normal) and one ball python (1.0 normal).

Lizards: One male? normal leopard gecko and one female? armadillo lizard.

Frog: one male? White's tree frog.

Mammals: 1.0 Bichon Frisé/Poodle mix, 0.1 American short hair cat.



If I find what I'm looking for at the expo tomorrow, you'll all know. ;)

I used to list our snakes and furries in my sig, but then I was talked to about it being to big. :rolleyes:

I'm a single, full-time working mom to my fantastic! 14 yo daughter Robin. I've only had snakes for two years (sep. thread :D) but we've gone from one adult BP to:

The Scale Kids:
3 normal male BPs: Freddie, Precious and Zeus;
1.1 100% het albino BP babies (nameless.... :sigh2: I can't think of something fitting!)
1.0 Stimson's python, Felix;
0.1 albino Nelson's milksnake, CeCe;
0.1 anery Kenyan sand boa, Oreo;
1.0 normal Colombian RTB, Wrigley;
1.0 100% het albino Colombian RTB, Petey (short for Platinum);
1.0 poss DH ghost, poss het for T+ albino, hypo pastel Colombian, Apollo;
0.1 pastel Colombian, Pinky T;
0.1 Leucistic TX ratsnake, Crystal;
1.0 Snow corn, Flurry;
0.1 normal adult Colombian RTB, Hera;
1.0 SD retic, Kaa;
0.1 Robin's pet amel corn snake, Kishnah

The Furries:
Smoo (Smudge II), Smee(Smudge III), Butterscotch, Stewie (Scabbers II), Scabbers, and Robin Hood are either batchelors or previous daddy rats;

Peekaboo, Mommy Thing, Creamy, Peachy, Squeeky, Snow, Beauty, Monkey are, or have been, all mommy rats. The other girls are Stripe, Patches, Dot, Dumbelina, Raven, and Thing 1 (or 2). :oops: We're not sure which "Thing" got out accidentally and bred...so now she's Mommy Thing. And about 20-25 nameless babies (4 litters still alive) who are getting fed off as they grow.

Our horses are Cody, the 2 yo chestnut tobiano Pinto gelding; Roxie the black 3 yo tobiano Paint, Robin's horse Blue Chyp HF, the registered Arab mare; and Duchess, my 10? 11? yo running AQHA mare, who we're still trying to "find" by her racing tattoo ID for her papers.

Our cats are Checkers, Candy, Norman, Riley (in the house); Mohawk, Keera and Pesky (in the garage).

When we get our own place, (soon!!!!! :carrot: :carrot: ) we're wanting to get a dog (maybe two, if smaller). We miss Tundra so!

My wants are a lemon pastel, pied BP, axanthic BP, high white spider BP and albino ball...hence the 1.1 het pair of albino babies. The more I read Kevin C's book, the more I drool over the different morphs and my WISH LIST just gets longer, and longer, and longer....................:D But sadly the money tree gets smaller and smaller, so I'll have to breed for those and the boa morphs I want. When I get more room and experience, I'd like to get an albino burm and a lavender albino retic. I think they're unbelievably beautiful! :O

Since there aren't any in this area, I'm going to be working towards a snake rescue. Freddie was my first one, and after the news article about the albino burm, I want to make sure they're properly cared for until their ppl get their heads out and get smart, should the poor snake get away (again).

Even with all that going on..........I'm building my MK biz, and my sister and I are building a bakery biz for a family cookie recipe (sep. bldg, of course!). All this so that I don't have to continue working the scrummy night shift and affecting my health.

*whew* :rolleye2: :rolleye2:


RuLyn

I'm 36 yrs. old,married with 2 children,both boys(14 and 11).we have a minature male dachshund named max power(a one for the simpson fans),a male cat named randolph montgomery(cant remember what kind he is,gry tiger striped)a guinea pig named lisa,a red eared slider named lucky,a 55 gal. planted fresh water community tank with bolivian rams as the main inhabitants,a 90 gal.tank with 2 yellow bullheads,each about 9 inches long,a 30 gal planted tank with a dozen rummy nosed tetras and last but not least a female normal BP.I would like to get a couple more BP's,morphs,like a pastel or spider or mojave.I will be setting up a 55 gal saltwater reef tank in the summer,mostly corals and inverts.The wife wants me to dig a koi pond in the back yard but I dont see that happening without a bulldozer or something to do the digging besides me.

...Annnd now, I have a Hog island boa!

Ok lets see I am a tattooed, cigar smoking, python loving, brother of a Marine son of a Southern Baptist Preacher and husband to a loving snake "disliking" wife.. :D

two horses: Dixie and Frank
two cats: Sammy and Sheba
one russian dwarf hamster: little foot
one dog (Rottie): Jasper
one Leo: Spot
1.1 Pastel ball
1.0 Spider ball
0.1 Mojave Ball
1.0 Het pied Ball
0.1 Banded Ball
1.5 Normal Balls

Congratz and what a beauty at that! :rockon: