When I was born, my father had a young Colombian red-tail boa, so I grew with this snake. Once I was old enough, I started taking care of him, eventually breeding the rats to feed him (while keeping some as pets) and being the only one that cared for him. For some reason, which to this day I can't get an answer from him, my father decided he wanted to sell him at a show. I was very upset about this, since by then I considered him to be MY snake.
Once I got into a place of my own where I knew I'd be stable for a while, I rescued a baby Colombian from someone on Craigslist. I now have two pet snakes, and 2 rescues. I plan to continue to do rescues/adoptions because I've seen the bad conditions they can end up in, and I've seen that most of the people who actually know how to help these snakes won't (mostly it seems because they don't want to spend the money), so they go to people who don't know how to care for them who just want to help.
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