Loved ones don't like your herp friends ???

[Freakie_frog]

Ok here something to do..


How many of you have loved ones that don't like your scale covered friends. Or even better didn't like them and now love them more than you do now.




I'll start. My Girlfriend talked me into getting my first herp a male leopard gecko that we loving call spot. He was a runaway that Petsmart had let get out and later caught he was living under his tank and eating escaped crickets. I was hooked. I had spot for over a year before I even thought about getting a snake. After reading about balls and playing with them at a shop a breeder had here in Jackson I bought one.My girl is deathly scared of snakes so I made her name him so she would have some connection with him. She called him Orpheus, its greek for "the darkness of night". She thinks he's good looking for a snake but want touch him or even be around when I feed him. But I told her that he would be here for a long time and she has like 40 years to get use to him so to take her time and not rush things and when shes ready I would let her do what ever

[Marla]

My father thought my ball pythons were going to eat my kids. Last Sunday, he brought the kids home and brought a wild-caught scorpion with them (live at the time, now deceased and pickled). I won't even pick up a wild scorpion!

[UberAlice]

My mom hates snakes with a desperate passion. I had an ex once who swore that he'd kill my Ball if she so much as looked at him funny....he became an ex about 10 minutes after saying that.

[Anonymous]

Uhh Ball Pythons don't live for 40 years.

[mlededee]

wow, it took a whole 10 minutes? you must be a better person than me. :wink:

[Freakie_frog]

Well she hasn't gone that far yet but she keeps her distance

[mlededee]

Uhh Ball Pythons don't live for 40 years.

they do sometimes live for that long. the longest lived bp on record was about 48 years old at a zoo here in the US

EDIT: "Ball pythons are a long lived species, averaging 20-30 years in captivity, with the oldest being 48 and residing at the Philadelphia Zoo. They received it as a juvenile so it could very well have been nearly 50."

[Freakie_frog]

I know they don't live that long its a sarcastic exaggeration. I was just letting her know that she had time to get use to him

[UberAlice]

wow, it took a whole 10 minutes? you must be a better person than me. :wink:

Took me a minute to find the baseball bat.

.....hah. No, not really, I'm not that mean.


(it was a wiffle ball bat.)

[mlededee]

:mrgreen: :wink: