Hello :D

[sunshinenorcas]

Hey! My name is Kat and I'm a 24yo college student from Oregon. I've been into animals of all shapes and sizes for as long as I can remember, and I got into reptiles not long ago. I have 2013 female normal ball python who I STILL haven't named yet, but it will come at some point haha, and a 11yo Jack Russell Terror named Keiko who currently lives with my parents, but visits me on occasion when I can have him for a few days. I volunteer with a local dog rescue and try to help out with some of the others (our shelter deals with other rescues, so I know various people at various rescues, so I help when and where I'm needed) and play Polo. Well, try to play polo I'm not very good yet, and it's been mostly staying on the horse and not dying, rather then hitting the ball. I'm also taking care of an arthropod collection this summer that's comprised of about 100+ critters, so that's a pretty cool volunteer job
Aside from the animal things, I'm a pretty normal college student. I'm studying Psych with an emphasis on behavior (I want to go into animal training, and a lot of training has roots in psych), and I'm aiming to have minors in Photography and Fish&Wildlife. I'm a little weird, I'm a very logical person who likes facts and knowing how things work, but I'm terrible at math and science. I'm much better in in Liberal arts and stuff like psych, history and visual arts. So I guess I'm left and right brained? I like video games- I'm working on a re-play of Mass Effect (I'm thinking of naming the BP something from ME, but I dunno what. Tali or Bakara maybe? D, and playthroughs of Pokemon Black, Red Dead, Dragon Age and Fable 3. I also read when I can, right now its Dance of Dragons and it's going slowwwwwwwwwww haha.

Pictures!!
BP (yes this was posted in pictures- I haven't had her out since then to take more, next time I handle her, I'll take some )


Keiko! This is one of his OMG SCRATCHIES faces


Two of my Bug Zoo critters- our female African Giant Millipede 'Meera' and our juvie Oklahoma Brown Tarantula 'Charlotte'. Charlotte is probably one of my favorites in the entire collection, she's tiny and adorable and so stinking cute. I fed her crickets for the first time last week and she ate them right next to the glass, and I got happy tarantula face.



And me! The pony is not mine- she's one of our polo ponies, and she's my favorite of the crew. She's old, cantankerous, and has sympathy hysteria if another horse is having an issue, but she's also a hoot and fun to work with. And the alligator is also not mine, but a gator I got to handle while volunteering with a reptile education group. I grew up in the south and I used to be terrified these as a child, so it was a neat experience to be that close to one and just hang out with him. I don't think gators are animals I'd want to own personally, but it definitely helped changed perception of them.