When I was little, probably around 5,my stepdad got a ball python. I don't really remember it, just the stories I have been told. Unfortunetly a lot of bad stuff happened to it, it got loose then found, quit eating, then had to be put down by a vet. But later around 1st grade we went out of town and stopped at a pet store and I saw my first colombian redtail and we got it. I walked around that whole store with it and it was no bigger than a pencil and people were terrified of it and it amazed me. We kept it for about 2 or 3 years and it got bigger than I was and I got scared of it. I looke back on it and laugh, my friends cant believe I was afraid of a snake once. But the summer after my senior year in 2003 I got a Brazilian Rainbow boa and fell back in love with snakes. I was planning on becoming a vet but I realized my love for snakes and reptiles would change that and I am now in school to work at a zoo one day with herps. A year later I got another redtail. Then last year I got 5 corns at my first trip to Daytona. Then at the begining of this year I got a 5.5 foot male and 6.5 foot female Colombian redtails and then saturday I got my first morph, a hypo colombian. So it is really a great addiction. They are amazing animals. They have no arms and can still function. I still am amazed every time I feed one. I love getting people to hold one for the first time and getting them to like snakes, even though it isnt the love I have for them. I have also found that it is contagious. My room mate that I met in college now has two after having none when we met. My g/f who never thought she would own one now has 2 corn snakes and 2 chameleons and my room mates g/f wants to get a bearded dragon. So I am doing my part to get people to love the animals I do, instead of having a hatred for them.

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• why keep snakes? - pythonis, Sat Jan 21 18:33:42 2006
• I'll tell you why - bthacker, Sat Jan 21 18:45:14 2006
• RE: I'll tell you why - pythonis, Sat Jan 21 18:51:02 2006
• RE: why keep snakes? - deadlyjokers, Sat Jan 21 18:59:35 2006
• only 2 people know why? np - pythonis, Sat Jan 21 19:12:08 2006
• RE: why keep snakes? - clownloach, Sat Jan 21 19:23:25 2006
• Huh?? What does money have to do with what there is to like about them? NP - bthacker, Sat Jan 21 19:36:47 2006
• RE: Huh?? What does money have to do with what there is to like about them? NP - pythonis, Sat Jan 21 19:43:30 2006
• RE: Huh?? What does money have to do with what there is to like about them? NP - ginebig, Sat Jan 21 19:59:01 2006
• RE: why keep snakes? - ajfreptiles, Sat Jan 21 21:07:25 2006
• RE: why keep snakes? - VolcomHerp, Sat Jan 21 21:08:33 2006
• Get Post/TOPIC pythonis 8) - VolcomHerp, Sat Jan 21 21:15:51 2006
• RE: why keep snakes? - kingsnaken, Sat Jan 21 22:04:42 2006
• voices - maizeysdad, Sun Jan 22 05:51:31 2006
• RE: voices - ginebig, Sun Jan 22 11:11:57 2006
• This is why I love them - tsusnakeguy, Mon Jan 23 00:19:53 2006