Well, when I first started to admire the BP is when my sister purchased one. It wasn't a very nice snake though, but it was still pretty cool. When I was 10 I owned a Corn snake at first, then a King snake to a Milk snake. In no time I had 3 snakes, and they were all pretty cool. After my Corn snake passed away, I only had the two snakes. After that, when I moved into my new house, I got an albino Corn snake. That snake stop feeding and was infested with mites. We took it to the vet and they got rid of the mites and the snake started eating again. It died from regurgitation, just like my first Corn. After that snake died, I went to a pet store that had tons of reptiles. I purchased a King snake, but I didn't really know what morph he was since he had all these mixed colors and what not. After having those two snakes, I started hearing more and more about Ball pythons. I begged and begged and finally one day I purchased my first BP. A while after that, I also acquired a Dumeril's boa, another Corn snake, and a BP. All are still alive and well. Kind of a long story but oh well