I caught it in my yard when I was 5 or 6 and hid it in a shoe box under my bed so my mom wouldn't find it....she did and promptly evicted it. My first snake was not my first reptile, but I bought an albino corn snake for my youngest daughter when she 5 or 6 as a Christmas present. My girls were (and are) HUGE Irwin fans and we all adore herps. We still have that corn along with a few more, some balls, a boa, a burm, and hognose, and a collection of lizards and inverts.

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• How did you get your first snake? - xrayeric1993, Thu Nov 1 10:49:49 2007
• RE: How did you get your first snake? - AbsoluteApril, Thu Nov 1 13:46:28 2007
• RE: How did you get your first snake? - Hissenia, Thu Nov 1 14:05:18 2007
• My son started me.. - dmac, Thu Nov 1 18:53:03 2007
• n00b - she_geek, Fri Nov 2 15:51:03 2007
• or call 'em pet rocks ; - ) n/p - strictly4fun, Fri Nov 2 18:11:43 2007
• RE: How did you get your first snake? - laurarfl, Thu Nov 1 20:40:54 2007
• RE: How did you get your first snake? - Gregory, Fri Nov 2 21:55:37 2007
• RE: How did you get your first snake? - beastie, Fri Nov 9 14:56:30 2007