Well, I never even thought about snakes as a pet (I neither liked nor disliked them) - but when my daughter started working at our local reptile place she'd been saying for almost a year that she wanted one - she wanted a BP - "OMG!" was my response "Those things are so big - they could injure you!" and also "Do you know they're constrictors? What if it got out in the night? It could strangle you in your sleep! Besides - your Dad and Gran hate them"


But she was really determined and spent her last birthday money on buying a baby BP. Before that I went into her reptile shop and held their adult female BP Emily - she was so gorgeous, smooth and satiny (plus she didn't try to strangle me ) I fell in love immediately - as I am now in love with Baby Emily (my daughter's snake). Now I'm at the stage of having resuced some corns and wondering how long it will take me to save up for a Piebald BP ...