I currently keep one female ball python, and her story goes something like this. I have several friends who’ve had female iguanas. They raved about them. I had decided that I wanted a reptile, and began asking about green iguanas. Got a lot of feedback on some of their problems. I looked into Chinese water dragons, instead. I was pretty well set on them. So, my husband, who is a little boy at heart and was so geeked about getting a reptile, drove us out to the Swap Meet in Streamwood, IL.



As I wandered about for an hour, I looked at the dragons, and decided they were NOT CUTE! (I like cute animals, even if only *I* think they’re cute!) But, we did see a single ball python this guy Nick was selling. I kept looking at her, and noticed how freaking CUTE she was.



Now, I’ve held snakes when the “Creature Feature” came to my elementary school, but not in the last 15 years. Nick picks her up, and plops her down in my hands, and tells us that she’s captive bred, she looks great, good muscle tone, I am sold.



So, knowing that we need to have a home for her, we buy the ball python manual, and build a SWEET enclosure for her in one week’s time. Spending all our evenings checking temps, buying better UTHs, reading. One week later, we went back to the Swap. Nick remembered us, and asked if we were still interested in the snake. Heck yeah! So, Abigail came home to her palatial enclosure, and has eaten, shed, and been pretty content for the last 5 months.



My husband & I now have a ton of new “cute” animals to contend with. After Abby, then came a poison dart frog (Stink), then a bearded dragon (Boo), another dart frog (Tink), and I just got a new dart frog on Sunday (Ollie). (By the way, they are all adorable!)



~Maxwells

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