When is enough, enough? One more addition?

[Phillydubs]

Downside to being on this Forum is now dakski will get to hear my 2 cents, and you guys will get to hear from me my opinion.

When dakski first moved in, the tanks took up a considerable amount of the basement. I was happy to have him there, but very overwhelmed. Almost immediately he started in about getting a scaleless corn, which quickly turned into a Boa. I was NOT on board for Behira. Firstly, in addition to the 3 gecko's, skink and 2 snakes we already had... we have 5 dogs. Luckily they all get along, but I did NOT want to have 12 animals.

Dakski wore me down, and I do have some regrets on caving for Behira at times because she can be very food aggressive, and I did not have in my head a realistic understanding of how large she would be. However, one of the compromises was that we could get the boaphile tanks, and that this would ABSOLUTELY be the last animal that he would even bring into the house and he would not even ask me again. I also understood that he had made a lot of sacrifices for me in moving to my home v.s. us moving to his home which was substantially larger.

Come forward now to a few months ago... he confessed that he was still having feelings for a scaleless corn. He showed me Solana and reported that even though all the reptile tanks are full, he could split one to make 2 enclosures. Solana was very special, and I could tell that right away. I don't have any regrets in us getting her.

Then, I got Ezzy for a variety of reasons Mostly because she is super cute, and doesn't eat bugs. I'd also never seen anything like her. On another note, I got Ezzy because my dogs are 10, 10, 10, 8 and 6, but the youngest is a large dog and likely to have a shorter lifespan. It would be nice to have another animal that has a longer lifespan that will be with me when the dogs are no longer. As it goes, the dogs will likely start passing around about the time I hit 40... and that's gonna be sad for me. Ezzy will be a pet I can keep into my 70s should I be blessed that she live that long.

The thing is, the hognose is reallllly cute. I like the name that Dakski has picked out, and he is a very sweet animal. However, I do have some nerves about the fact that he would be animal number 15. I also worry about Dakski's health because god forbid something were to happen to him, I honestly don't know that I could care for all of the reptiles on my own. I never want to put an animal into a bad situation, so that would be very difficult for me. We have 5 dogs because I commited to all of my dogs to care for them for their entire lives. I also understand that Dakski would want to have a little reptile-y to keep in his office.

And...

have you seen the noses on those things... they are seriously the cutest...

So advise us reptile friends... it seems like it is not uncommon for reptile people to have many many animals... so am I getting caught up on a number?

Short and sweet ... YES!!!!

Numbers Schmumbers....

dude did a killer job w that nice clean office too!!!

you both are talking so sweetly about this hoggie... GO GET HIM... tomorrow! Lol
...or a bull snake or king snake or GTP... or indigo... get them all. A cute smaller sized tortoise would be fun too!!!!