Hi All Greeting from Johannesburg, South Africa

Just joined you here at Ball-Pythons cause yesterday I bought my first BALL PYTHON!!

My partner, Sarah, and I decided to get a snake recently. Sarah is from Ireland and had never seen a snake until she came to South Africa with me 3 years ago, and it was just one month ago that she handled her first Corn snake. Since she found out that snakes are not yuk and slimy she been wanting one for her own.

So we went out yesterday to a local pet store with the intent of acquiring a corn snake. Now I'd already researched corn snakes as well as Ball pythons, and i really would have preferred a BP, but we have 3 cats and Sarah was worried that either the cats would get eaten if a python got out or that the cats would eat the python So the consensus was that we'd get a corn snake.

As fate would have it the store we went to had BP's as well as corn snakes. The attendant first showed us the corn snakes, very nice, but very quick and squirmy. He then showed us the BP's and took one out the enclosure and gave it to Sarah to hold. The little thing casually wrapped itself round her hand and just parked off. For the next 20 minutes Sarah was carrying this BP around the store and then said that this was what she wanted, that the corn snakes were not comparable, she was hooked...

So a wedge of cash later and we are now the proud owner of a 3 month male Ball Python, from what I can tell it is a run of the mill model with no flashy extras, but boy is he a beaut. We've called him Samson.

Right now he is in his enclosure getting used to his surroundings. I'll need to get him out later to add a few extras to his tabk so I'll see if I can get some pics then for y'all.

L8r

Bundu