Quote Originally Posted by martyb View Post
thank you so bout my age then thank you and anymore reasons for keeping snakes would be welcome
My son is 13-2 years younger than you are and 2 years ago he wanted a snake. My husband and I keep burms and a retic so we talked about it and then contacted the man who owns our local reptile shop (we had become good friends with him) he allowed our children to volunteer at his shop a couple of hours on the weekends as long as their grades were good and they respected him and the shop. They both earned credit at the shop and they earned money doing odd jobs in the nieghborhood (cut grass, clean gutters, helping etc...) Well they each saved enough money to purchase their own ball python but before they did my husband and I made them write an essay on ball pythons-the husbandary, care ,etc......they finally each got one and were able to purchase the food and supplies with their credit at the reptile shop. They are responsible with their snakes and have done a great job. So good luck.