What was your first snake?

[MattU]

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.

I used to try and sneak in snakes I caught all the time. I'd keep them for a week, month, whatever until I got caught by my parents lol. Snakes got me in trouble more than anything. I guess my first one was probably a water snake though