What made you interested in snakes?

[Diamond_1028]

Sometimes I wonder how people get interested in what they want like what made you want a snake and actually go for it?

Did you see one at a petstore, learn about it on Animal Planet or at school?

When I got interested in snakes I was probably in seventh grade and it was because I seen it on some movie from Dusk Til Dawn. Some girl came out dancing with it on her body.

I was like OOOOO and no Im not lesbian lolz Im talking about the snake .

I'd go to the zoo and look at all the snakes amazed .

Than there was a time I went swimming at a lake and caught a water snake, it bit me but I insisted on trying to keep it. .

And when I lived on the reservation a bull snake got into the rabbit cage and ate a bunch of her babies. Here I go again, hard headed wrestling a huge snake out of a rabbit cage and trying to keep it but some guy wanted to eat it so I let it go.

I have ate snake before. I kind of regret it now. It tasted like spicy chicken .

My mother said I was a weird little girl, I look back and I agree .

She's terrified of scorpions and I would sit there picking them up outside speakin apache in my pamper .

Some can call me a weirdo, I even wanted to get Thug Life tatted on my stomache like Tupac before so I guess I am different , all into different things because I dislike being the same as everyone else.

Anyways my mom let me probably get every animal,reptile,etc I wanted except a monkey of course but other than a monkey she told me forget having a snake.

Finally I got a job and bought my own and in no time my mom started loving them. Its funny how she bonds with the one I have now and it likes her nose for some reason haha but I also got my sister Stephanie (who recently passed away) into liking snakes. She had a ball python and a corn snake.

I do love all animals,reptiles and stuff but thats how I got interested into snakes.

[puckett26]

I know I personally always been interested in snakes, but I was afraid of them. I watch them on discovery and animal planet but never owned one, just geckos and turtles. I had a few friends that try to talk me into them, but I was still afraid. What did it for me was I was looking at them on youtube.com and seen all these little kids holding the Ball Pythons (mainly little girls). I felt like a complete PUNK! So I went the the MARS show and Baltimore and got 2 of them. Now Im at 7 lol. So I can see honestly say the little kids having ball pythons and me as a grown man scared of them made me face my fears. Now I love the snakes and so do my kids and my wife

[SpencerShanks]

I've always been fascinated by snakes, for as long as I can remember. By the end of the first year (3rd grade) at my new school when I moved out here to AZ, I had read every book in our school's library that was about snakes. I love to watch specials on Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel about snakes and other reptiles. I cried when my mom told me I couldn't get a snake for Christmas this year. I'm insanely jealous of my friends that have ball pythons. I can't wait until I'm older, when I'll have multiple rooms dedicated to simply reptiles. I have no idea what it is that fascinates me so much, but they are so loveable. I still remember when I caught (and got bit by) a garter snake my dad found in my backyard up in Utah. My dad threw it across the street into a neighbor's yard and it hit a stopsign :'( I plan on working with snakes my entire life, and a worker at my local zoo has offered to allow me to help out with their snakes sometime (Can you imagine it? Feeding anacondas before you are halfway done with highschool! Lucky me, eh?) Oh, how I love snakes

[Kyle@theHeathertoft]

My dad likes critters and when I was a kid, we'd vacation often at this place up in northern Michigan near Boyne Highlands that was jointly owned by my parents and several other people. There was a golf course that ran less than a few hundred yards from the back of the house, and some of the natural water features were swamps and bogs. Plenty of golfers would knock nice, expensive balls into the swamps and not be willing to wade in after them. My dad would put on his swampers and wade in to track down the golf balls for his own use, and when I was like...six, he started letting me come with him. I'd follow, with two buckets...one for found golf balls, and one for CRITTERS.

He'd catch me frogs, turtles, sometimes salamanders in the drier areas of the woods, and of course snakes were the best. Little garter snakes, cute little things. I loved them. The rule was I could keep 'em but only for a little while, then I'd have to let them go again. My dad even showed me a hog-snake once, showed me how it'll play dead if you don't let it be. XD

I grew up loving reptiles and amphibians. For some reason my kid brother never did.

I had a few anoles and things as pets when I was still young, and some wee snakey things, but got away from herps in general...

...until many years later when I was in college. I needed a pet that was silent, easy to care for, didn't need much in the way of space, and wouldn't die if I didn't pay attention to it for a day or three at a time (exams suck) and what could be better than a snake?! I did some research, and decided that the Ball Python was the right animal for me.

No sooner did people find out I was in the market for a Ball that one basically got handed to me. e.e He was a skinny, dehydrated wild-caught thing with ticks under his scales and an infestation of mites from the crappy dealer. His face was all banged up, too...shipping accident. I fed him up, cleared up the mite issue (god that sucked, too) and got rid of his ticks...dealt with his wounds (loooots of vet bills) and named him Precious, since at the time I was reading Lord of the Rings and it just seemed appropriate.

I had 'im for a few years, then sadly had to sell him due to moving...I was moving out of the country and could not take him with me.

I kindof forgot my love of snakes...I spent so many years without even really thinking about them, and moved back to Michigan.

I did somewhat enjoy snakes vicariously through my boyfriend, though. He has a few Corn Snakes, and I loved seeing pictures of them and hearing him talk about them.

One day someone at work (I work in a pet store) peered around the corner and asked if I was afraid of snakes. I said "NO, I love them" and when she came around the corner she had a very scared little Pueblan Milk Snake in her hands. Seems she arrived at the store more than six months prior as a juvenile, was sold and promptly returned for "agression." For the next six months she grew and grew, but still lived in a little six-by-twelve box on the sales floor, being harassed by everyone who walks past. The store declared her unsellable and offered her up basically for adoption just to get rid of her, but since she doesn't like being handled they were even having a hard time finding anyone to take her for FREE.

That irked me so I drove to my dad's, rummaged in the attic for my old herp stuff, and set up an enclosure for the little snake and took her home the following weekend.

BTW, she's never acted agressive at ALL, never S'd up or acted like she was even THINKING about biting. She's easily scared and still not thrilled at being handled, though. We're working on it.

Having the little Milk Snake around (named her Bowline, a type of sailing knot, since she's kindof goofy...tried eating a Fuzzie SIDEWAYS for crying out loud!) made me miss my Ball Python terribly...years ago when I had Precious, I remembered that a new morph had come along, the Mojave, and it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen and so far out of my price range it HURT. Just for fun, one afternoon a few months back I did a google search for Mojaves...and found that not only had the Super been bred and god is it prettier than even the Mojave, but that the price had fallen into my range.

Cue my glee. I hit an expo, met a breeder, drove to his place a week later to pick out a Mojave male and couldn't be happier. I love having a Ball again!

I plan to breed myself a Super Mojave at some point, and would love to have a small collection of my own. For purposes of selling superfluous animals, I decided I'd eventually set up a website or something, and I'd name my little home-based hobby "Heathertoft," since the house I learned to love snakes at was called the Heather House, since it faced Heather's Run at the Boyne Highlands ski area. The -toft part means "homestead" or just "home;" it has a lot of personal meaning.

Yeah I'm a sentimental kind of guy, LOL.

Anyways, that's my story of how I got into snakes. I blame my dad...he's awesome.

[Pepper]

Visually, I like snakes over other herps and mammalian pets because they are unusual, streamlined animals with beautiful colors and patterns to choose from. They are mostly easy to care for once you set them up in the right environment, and they're variable even within the same species, whereas I honestly couldn't tell two of the same specie tortoise or something apart if my life depended on it.

Emotionally, I enjoy that they are extremely predictable, schedule-able animals (IE next Tues I need to feed, next Sunday they're due to shed). They aren't needy nor are they untouchable as some delicate animals are. They live quite some time, which is great for me because I get really emotional over pet deaths.

[PyroPython]

That girl is Selma Hayek

Anyways, I have always been interested in them. From the time I was walking I was picking up Meditteranean geckos and rough earth snakes.

I never was allowed to have one though, until I was a sophomore. I stopped asking and just brought one home. They dealt with it, and still do . It was a young Texas rat snake a friend of mine caught and brought it up to school.

Next was a ball python, then everything under the sun. Alligator included for a short time.

[steveboos]

I think i was around 13 or so and I was watching The Crocodile hunter or just Animal planet. That led me to look for snakes online after watching that for years and after reading what was nice and easy to take care of Ball Pythons seemed to be the best choice. Well i reasearched and reaserached and was 95% sure i was going to buy a Ball Python, then i realized i do not have the right money situation and i should wait. Well finally on October 8th of this year I bought my first snake as a rescue off a family with tank and other things. Now i currently have 6 snakes and will be breeding later this Fall, i also now breed Rats and that has now taken over a whole mind of its own. Snakes are amazing and i love how well they live with the least amount of food and water any animals can have!

[PyroPython]

Well finally on October 8th of this year

Welcome, to the past What does my collection consist of in October??

Just playing. I couldn't resist...

[Danounet]

My family moved to the US from Venezuela when I was 13 years old (I'm 26 now). Before that, It was not un-common to see Boas around abandoned/neglected patches of land where trees and weed would grow unatended.

We used to live in a tall apparment which had a big parking lot and next to the parking lot, there was a neglected piece of land with tall trees/weed/grass. Now and then Iguanas, lizzards and the occasional snake would cross over to the parking lot, where we were usualy playing games. One time a Boa crossed over and everyone freaked out, but I was just standing there watching from a distance. I felt in love at that point. Sadly, everytime this would happen, the Janitor would rush out with a big machete....

Anyways to this day Im yet to own a Boa, Im waiting untill I own a house of my own for that, and also for "the one" for me

[Kaorte]

I have always been fascinated with them for as long as I can remember. I actually had a book on snakes as a kid and I would constantly bring it in for show and tell XD I should go dig that book up when I am home next!