I had gotten interested in bp's and had done a lot of research. I stumbled across kingsnake.com while doing research and finding out the Tinley NARBC show was in about 2 weeks. (I had also stumbled across this site in my research). That weekend I went down to the Chicago Reptile House (in IL) to pick up all the caging as I was going to get an animal at the Tinley show. I finally get down to the reptile house and looked around it, and the other two stores associated with it. (This was 2004)

I had already found out how long bp's live, so I held a few in the store (for quite a while) while Jeff? (one of the owners) ran around helping other people.

Later, Jeff hands me a baby ball, which promptly pees on me and slowly uncurled. He then ran off for a while to help the other customers.

Jeff comes back "Can I put the snake back now?"

"Oh no, you've sold me, I want this one".

I drove home with a baby ball python going into shed in a paper bag, and everything else I needed. I soaked him in warm water while I set everything up.

This is a year old picture, but here's a rough idea of the size change. The container pictured was Issa's first hide.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y21...eyearlater.jpg

Issa is the snake in my avatar.

I haven't gotten new pictures of Issa in a while, I should