When I was 12, I caught a copperhead (I named Gary), sneaked it into my room and hid it in a plastic tub and stuck it in the closet. I didn't have a adequate heat source, or a hide, nor food (fed it fish out of my mom's aquarium). This went on for a couple weeks, and my mom spots me catching a fish out of her aquarium, follows me to my room and sees me feeding Gary....I tell you what, she was a very unhappy mommy, and them dreaded words "WAIT UNTIL YOUR DAD GETS HOME" has been spoken.