WOW!! from reading all of this It makes me glad that my parents even let me have one snake. My dad told me that I can have as many ball pythons as I want as long as they are properley cared for and I get everything I need with my own money.
I am 13 years old and everybody I know think its kind of cool but dont have any interest in it (except for my grandma, she would scream and faint at the site of a RUBBER snake).
Its good to have that support. There's a local kid who has come by with his father a couple times to learn a couple things and just see how I do things, and his dad will stand there and take notes. SO awesome to have involved parents.