What was your first snake?

[anatess]

Does anyone else find it kind of sad that most peoples first snake was store bought? My first snakes were wild caught Eastern garter snakes that I caught when I was 7 years old and kept in an old aquarium in our garage. I fed them frogs all summer long that I caught in the swamps around our house and then let them go in the autumn. I never actually bought a snake until I was 18, it was a normal corn snake.

Dunno what you mean by sad. A snake gets within 50 feet of my house when I lived with my parents it gets whacked. If not by the doberman, then by my dad's shovel. Ok, maybe that is sad. But, it is standard operating procedure in the Philippines.