I've been bitten!

[Lira]

No, no... not by my precious little Hyde. I think I've been bitten by the dreaded Herp bug.

Symptoms include looking in the tanks at the pet store you're buying mice at.
Surfing snake sites at lunch time, not for the info but to see what's 'available'.
Figuring out how you can rearrange your living room to accomodate more totes.
Thinking of asking your spouse for another BP for christmas.

Oh no! Like a need another mouth to feed! Crap. I want another lovely snake to take care of. <sigh>

I think this accured last week sometime. Yeah, it was right after my two cocker spaniels got into the left over bag of halloween candy that my hubby left on the end table. Yes yes, I know chocolate can kill dogs, but this was the extreamly cheap stuff thats mostly wax and sugar. Still, they puked and pooped brown waxy stuff everywhere.

So, while I was scrubbing furiously I start saying thing like "I'm going ship those mutts off" (which will never happen, but when you scubbing puke and poop you say things). And, "Snakes don't eat chocolate and barf everywhere! Snakes don't shed fur everywhere! Snakes only eat once a week and poop even less! Snakes don't roll in poop they find in the back yard at 6am when your trying to go to work! We're getting rid of the dogs and getting more snakes!"

This is when I realized I had been bitten.

Lira <--(Who would never actaully get rid of her furry babies)

[rabernet]

I personally feel that all breeders and distributors need to include warnings with their snakes "Warning, ball pythons can become addictive". I thought I was just going to have Kashmire and that would be that. Now I've got two girls coming in January and if all goes as planned, a 100% het hypo and 100% het pied (both males) will be joining our household this spring/summer!

[frankykeno]

Snakes also don't bark at the door when the same person they've known for 5 years drops by, every time, like it's a stranger! They don't drink water then drool it across the kitchen floor for unwary bare morning toes that are just trying to tippy toe to the blessed coffee machine to find! They rarely chew shoes....especially just the right one of the pair you saved months to buy and there was only one pair left in your size anyways! So far none of mine have humped anyone's leg!

There should be a warning though that not only are they addictive, they come with a free case of OCD.

Welcome to our world!


~~Jo~~

[jglass38]

My name is Jamie and I'm a snake addict...

[frankykeno]

Hello Jamie! *supportive applause*


~~Jo~~

[recycling goddess]

hi my name is aleesha and i've been biten by the addiction bug as well.

and you know what? i'm okay with it!

[frankykeno]

I do NOT have issues about snake addiction!

I just bought the whole subscription...




~~Jo~~

[jglass38]

I do NOT have issues about snake addiction!

I just bought the whole subscription...




~~Jo~~

The first step is admitting you have a problem...

[alexrls]

hello my name is alex...


and i havent bought a snake in over a year.....

[recycling goddess]

jaime your sig cracks me UP!

alex,

okay, we can help you here... take a deep breath and know that new isn't necc better... it just means MORE... another deep breath... and another...

okay, i think you are through your crisis period now... please resume with your usual snake addiction stragedies.