Animal nut - always have been, always will be. I was intrigued by reptiles when I was a kid, but my parents...don't really like them enough to have them in the house. I got my first reptiles when I was married since my ex liked animals and wanted me to be happy. I had a plated lizard, hingeback tortoise, and a leopard gecko.

Then, thanks to volunteering at the zoo, I started noticing snakes as more than slithery lizards without legs. After a few months, I was given my first snake: red-checkered garter. I loved that little guy, and he lived for a good while... but in time I fell in love with another snake: a Ball Python named Naomi in the Ed department.
That snake was amazing... but I couldn't have one 'that big', so it stayed just a dream until last summer, when an unexpected grant reward and an unruly Beardie gave me the opportunity to get my first BP - Nagini.

Now... my three new corn snakes for a breeding team are in QT and my little rescued pastel BP will hopefully be a great partner to my normal female. I would have another BP, but there is NO MORE room here. Oh well