Moved to general herp.

01. well.. uh.. not sure really. I caught (and kept) my first toad (not a reptile, but still a herp) when I was a little girl.. not sure how little though.. lol 6 maybe? Then when I was 7 my dad brought home a snapping turtle that he found trying to cross the road. We kept him for a long time (we let him go again, but we didn't know that may not have been the best idea) I got my first snake when I was 8.

2. already answered that.

3. nope. When I was about 3 (yes I do remember this - clearly.) I was walking around the backyard with my dog, and we found a big garter snake. Now, I ran away to mom because that's what she told me to do when I saw a snake, but she knew it was a garter, and she let me go back out and see him. He was all coiled up, then he slithered off to the woods behind our house. I didn't stop thinking about it all day. lol

4. not yet.. but giving it a shot this year. The excitement of seeing all those baby snakes is why I want to do it.. and hopefully starting a small business around it too.

5. Well, I'm in the room with them for hours each day (they're in the computer room) but actually doing stuff with them? Some days not at all.. but several hours each week cleaning cages and feeding.

6. 36 snakes (4 of which are still residing at NERD)
1.0 normal ball
1.1 Pastel Balls (male at NERD)
0.1 Spider Ball
0.1 Cinnamon Pastel
1.1 Het Pied BPs (at NERD)
1.1 Jungle Carpet Pythons
1.2 Blood Pythons (female at NERD)
1.0 Granite Burmese Python
1.0 Kenyan Sand Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Roughscale Sand Boa
1.1 Hog Island Boas
1.2 Surinam Redtail Boas
0.1 Yellow Anaconda
2.0 Granite Yellow Anacondas
1.0 Green Anaconda
1.0 Dumerils Boa
1.0 Greyband King
0.1 Speckled King
2.1 California Kings (albino, albino stripe, and normal)
0.1 Mexican Black King
0.1 Het Hypo Honduran Milk
1.0 Hypo Tangerine Honduran Milk
1.0 Tangerine Honduran Milk
1.0 Albino Nelson's Milk

7. yes. My first snake (corn snake) helped get my mom over her fear of snakes.

8. By profession (but I enjoy it so I'll include it) I am a dog groomer. I'm also an artist/photographer, I ride horses, I love keeping plants, I love sports cars, (buying a corvette soon yay) I keep birds.. inverts.. fish.. lol. I play guitar and piano, and I like video games.

9. Other than expanding my collection (when I move out) it's my dream to start my own zoo.. featuring many reptiles of course. lol

10. yeah, but it changes every day. Today? My female blood python, Habanera.

11. wasps.. I'm allergic to the stings.

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13. 2 dogs, 2 cats, tiger salamander, american singer canary, pair of ringneck doves, thoroughbred horse, 2 emperor scorpions, 2 greenbottle blue tarantulas, costa rican zebra T, mexican flameknee T, brazilian red and white T, chilean rosehair T, trinidad chevron T, aphonopelma 'redbud' T... rats and mice for the scale kids.. and I think that's it. lol oh wait my wonderful brown bullhead catfish 'Mr Whiskers'.. I've had him forever.

14. nope.