What got you into reptiles?

[Lolo76]

People often ask me this question (usually phrased as "Why snakes??"), and I'm never quite sure how to answer! I've just always had a fascination with snakes, and wanted one from the time I was a child... my mother didn't like the idea of feeding live mice, so the closest she got to letting me own them were lizards & turtles.

Then a few years ago I was working at a public library, when we hired somebody from East Bay Vivarium (Berkeley CA) to do a show for the kids... I told him after the show how I'd always wanted a snake, and he told me to stop by their shop sometime. A few weeks later I did, with the intentions of getting either a Rosy Boa or Bearded Dragon - but he said I seemed like a "Ball Python girl," so I left with a little BP named Delilah. As they say, the rest is history.