I wanted a pet snake for as long as I can remember. My mom was fine with it, but my dad is deathly afraid of snakes. He wasn't havin it. I'll never understand this. It is a completely irrational fear when you know the facts. No reason to be scared of a ball python, corn snake, even a garter snake would have been fine for me. I just wanted a snake! lol. Even if it did escape from it's cage, what was it gonna do? Snakes stay in a cage, make no sounds, don't smell, and don't bother anybody. It literally has zero effect on everyone else living in the house except for the fact that they know it is in the house.

Anyway the first thing I did when I moved out was get a ball python. I remember searching on KS for a normal female (b/c they get bigger ) and seeing some of the more subtle morphs (subtle to the untrained eye at least) like mojave, cinnamon, yb etc. I thought to myself "Who would spend that much money on a ball python, especially when it looks just like a normal or maybe a tad different."

So I got my normal female and then started perusing various forums to find the answers to the questions I had about husbandry. That's when I started to learn more and more about the various morphs and the bug hit me. You should have seen the look on my Dad's face when I told him I was breeding ball pythons. It was something like this . Haha. He also let out a loud "Whaaaaaaaat?!?!?!?!" and rolled his eyes. So my mom doesn't care, my sister doesn't care, my brother thinks they are pretty cool, and my dad thinks I'm a nut.