I'm a huge animal fan and I tease my BF (who's allergic to anything that has fur) to go into a pet shop and "just look" all the time. Well one day we were right next to Petco and he started walking in, and I followed. I was awe'd by all the reptiles, and there was this guy there looking at the BP's. There were 3-4 in a cage (which now I'm kinda pissed about) and one was roaming alot, makes me even more mad. He told us a few things about the snakes, why the name "ball python" and some other things. After that I was interested in Corn Snakes, but my BF said if we're going to get anything get something that will be a little big... So the idea of a Ball Python was born!