Age of owners?

[Kyle@theHeathertoft]

I wouldn't say it's an age thing. But ppl now think of me as that guy who has snakes. Snake owners are thought as the hippies with long hair (look like chewy from SnakeBites) and are all around weird b/c we don't follow the crowd and get a dog, cat or fish. What most don't know is that most snake owners are most likely an all around animal lover and normally have another pet of some sort.
But that is just the feelings ppl I know have.

I must second this.

I keep snakes and a whole lot of other critters. I have a small herd of cats...two that live with me now (a Persian and a British Shorthair) and one that will be moving in with me once we are settled in the new house next month (a little mixed-breed shorthair) and if my dad insists on it, an ancient Maine Coon might come live with me as well.

I also have a dog, and a betta lives on my desk.

I have plans to set up a live-plant-intensive vivarium after we move, which will house a small colony of D. Leucomelas (bumblebee dart frogs) and I have plans to buy/aquire a LOT more snakes in the next few months.

Someday I plan to have a decent parcel of land (at least ten acres) zoned for livestock so I can have horses again, and I'd like to try my hand with a small group of sheep.

In other words, I'm a snake person for sure, but more than that I'm an ANIMAL person. I like critters more than I like most people. Nothing wrong with that.

Of course we're judged. The people trying to pass all these stupid laws prove that.

And I second this. Though I see a major flaw in their logic...more of us are voters than I think they realize. And oh how we are alienated by their preposterous claims.

I got my first snake on my 31st birthday, when it occurred to me that I -am- a grown-up, and I can decide what pets I have. I live on the other side of the country from my Mom, so it doesn't matter if reptiles freak her out, and I can jolly well have a snake if I want one. Or two. Or, um, ten.

Haha, likewise. One day I realized, oh my god I'm an adult, living in my own home, and I can do whatever I bloody well please.

That day, I began shopping for my first BP in years after eating a giant slice of chocolate cake for breakfast. I spent the afternoon after work playing video games.

I am 29, btw. Next May, I turn the big three-oh.

Yeah that's one thing i hate...
i have piercings, long hair, and I'm young.

Though the "young" part is debatable, I am all those as well. People still occasionally mistake me for a teenager when they find out I'm gauging up my ears (my goal is to get to 02 gauge in each lobe) and that I have no intentions of changing my hair (I have a pretty high-up undercut. It's all but a limp mohawk at this point! The undercut is shaved right to the skin, and the long stuff is about shoulder length when left down.). I inform them that many things are not limited by age, thus they cannot be "grown out of." If anything, I'm more into and enthusiastic about body modification and piercings than I was as a teenager!

Well i gotta admit whenever i heard of some1 having snakes or any sort of reptile i immediately thought they were weird and would have piercings and tatoos ha but know from being on this forum and researching stuff online before i got my bp i don't really think that anymore.

Funny story. I was at my dad's house, and somehow he, his GF and I got on the subject of snakes. I mentioned I know a fellow who might be willing to do a partial trade for some tack I own, and that he has some fabulous super-dwarf Retics I rather fancy. My dad sneered and said "Oh, how many tattoos does he have?" He turned to his GF and said "Most people who keep THOSE kinds of pets have tattoos." At that point I jumped in and said "Yeah, I know I sure do!"

Aparently my dad forgot about my ink. The look on his face was PRICELESS.

It did lead to a discussion that people from ALL walks of life can enjoy snakes, wether or not they are into tattooing or whatever. Contrary to popular belief they ARE mutually exclusive!

Anyways though...I must agree, the person who said to "grow up" needs to be told off.

[boyyoyo]

I'm 20, about to turn 21 in Aug. My Dad has been encouraging me and my brother to catch garder snakes my whole life. So I figure "no big deal, he's fine with snakes. I'm going to get me a Ball Python". Come to find out my dad is terrified of snakes and would force himself to grab them and hand them to us so we didn't inherit his phobia....

[Oxylepy]

I'm 20, about to turn 21 in Aug. My Dad has been encouraging me and my brother to catch garder snakes my whole life. So I figure "no big deal, he's fine with snakes. I'm going to get me a Ball Python". Come to find out my dad is terrified of snakes and would force himself to grab them and hand them to us so we didn't inherit his phobia....

I love your dad. Seriously, that's amazing. I hope to one day be as strong as him when it comes to my kids.

[mommanessy247]

i'm already being judged and i dont even have a snake yet. i told a few ppl that im getting a snake and they were like "really? why? ewww."

[Bones]

I'm 25 now, but I was 24 when I got my ball python. My mom was the typical "I hate snakes" person, but a few years after she passed away, I got one. My dad likes snakes and he "doesn't care what I have as long as it isn't big enough to eat him". That would have to be a BIG snake.

Like the majority of you, I get the "ewww, you have a snake" response pretty often. I don't care. Never have, never will. If I spent my life giving a crap what everyone thought, that would be a wasted life.

"Those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

[Kyle@theHeathertoft]

I'm 20, about to turn 21 in Aug. My Dad has been encouraging me and my brother to catch garder snakes my whole life. So I figure "no big deal, he's fine with snakes. I'm going to get me a Ball Python". Come to find out my dad is terrified of snakes and would force himself to grab them and hand them to us so we didn't inherit his phobia...

Okay, your dad rocks. He is SERIOUSLY awesome.

[Xanadu]

I got my BP when I was 21. I figured i was now 21, not living under my parent's roof and made my own income so I could get whatever pet I wanted. As well as get whatever clothes i wanted, tattoos, movies, anything...part of being an adult of getting and doing what you want and being responsible with it. So, i got a BP...like i had wanted ever since jake the Snake Roberts brought one to the ring when I was 4 years old and was watching wrestling with my daddy. I have always loved reptiles, amphibians, dogs, cats, fish, everything...i love cats so much that i am saving up to buy a sphinx cat because my mom is allergic so i can't have a cat with hair. Of course, then i will be not only the weird girl the the giant flower tattoo and a snake, but then will be the weird girl with the giant flower tattoo, a snake and a bald cat.

to each their own. As Eddie Izzard says "as long as no one gets hurt, its all groovy"

[shelliebear]

I'm 17, my fiance is 19 and together we are raising 2 snakes. We both fell in love when, on a family vacation, a friend had us hold his snake. Atfer that, we HAD to have one.
(or two, or three...)

[Wildman09]

I guess my age group has the highest count..lol...

I'm 25, my father bought me my first snake when I was 7. It was a Columbian RTB, I had that for like 4-5 years. I've had snakes ever since, along with many other reptiles and dogs and cats. My mother has been a vet tech for as long as I can remember, her love for animals has rubbed off on me I guess..lol.

I love snakes more then anything else as far as pets go, I currently have 4 bps and plan to add more. I am always finding myself having to "protect/defend" my snakes and snakes in general, there's alot of close minded people that are afraid or just hate these awsome creatures simply because of the way they are portraied on TV. I have "converted" a few people into liking them simply by providing them with facts and hands on experience....

I am in the process of moving my snakes to my fathers house because my gfs mother is Terrified of anything other then her Precious chichuahua (sp?) lol...So my father said bring them over there and he'll gladly keep them for me untill my gf and I get our own place again...

So yeah, I love these things and have since I can remember catching a garter snake in my back yard, I got bit like 10 times by that thing lol...I plan on breeding for the 1st time this upcoming season, simply to enjoy the satisfaction of producing more of what I like and making new morphs I want to add to my collection of bps...

Sorry for blabbing so much, I'm at work and can only take seeing so much porn..lol..(I'm in the "Adult Industry")...hahaha....

-Wildman

[Peeved kitten]

I'm 23 my wife is *censored* (sub 40's). I can't imagine someone trying to tell me I should grow up because I won snakes. I own my own business and am doing well, age has nothing to do with maturity or knowledge to a lesser extent.