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my sons B-day was yesterday (the big 4) and we went looking around the flea market b4 going to dinner and all of a sudden i hear him start screaming I WANT THE BLUE I WANT THE BLUE.I was like, the blue what so he took me by the hand and led me to a 10 gallon tank with a blacklight over it and 3 emperor scorpions in it I was like your gonna have to ask your mother. he said mommy mommy I want the blue and she looked at me and i put my hands up like whatever its his b-day so now we have 30 ball pythons and 3 emperor scorpions Im sooooooo proud of him, especially of the fact that he hasnt been tainted by societies lack of misguided knowledge and tolerance for different animals its good to have awesome parents

TEACH EM YOUNG TEACH EM RIGHT

As long as you are educating your son, can you educate the rest of us what an emporer scorpion is? Are they a common North American species? Can you post pictures? I don't have much interest in owning scorpions, but I like to know about things.

In any case, congratulations on bringing out these qualities in your kid. Happy birthday to him, and I hope these guys work well for him.

Thanks,

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

I hope you teach him that they are sensitive to UV and that you should never buy from people who are so careless they would put a blacklight over the animals to make them sell better, even though it stresses them out. I guess he is too young to understand that point yet.

I really think its cool when parents let their kids have neat pets. My son is only 2 months old, but I really hope he likes all kinds of critters. My wife and I joke that he will hate having animals just because we have so many and he will have to put up with them growing up.

to know his own mind!

My 4 yr old is now channeling Musollini.
He prefers "mean cweatures" to "cute and fuzzies"... especialy trantulas... ( much to the displeasure of the grandparents) I'm sure we'll be adding them to our zoo soon enough.

I think it is wonderful that you have taken on the extra responsibility and work to fuel his imagination and possibly a future passion in unusual animals.

Happy Birthday to the lucky little guy!
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"There is a fine line between a hobby and mental illness"
COLD BLOOD.........WARM HEART

Awwwwww! I LOVE kids! Expecially kids like that! LOL I practically raised one of my nieces and now she is BEGGING her mom to let her have a corn or a BP or something and her mom said she can have a puppy, of course any kid is happy to get a puppy, but she wants a snake too! LOL When I was a kid I was always begging for something or catching something, but we only had a cat now and then, my mom hated animals, so now I guess I am making up for it! LOL We have more rodents than I care to admit, and we have yet to even get our breeding colonies going strong, and the snakes, and the dogs, and the fish, and I am still begging for more, only this time I am begging hubby instead of mom! LOL

""My wife and I joke that he will hate having animals just because we have so many and he will have to put up with them growing up.""

I hear ya! LOL I told my husband that the other day LOL. I hope when we have kids, they will be as obsessed with animals as we are and they will someday take over for us when we're out of the picture.
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"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." - Kurt Cobain

"You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh at you because you are all the same."

~~ Krystal ~~

LOL - Happy Birthday to your son!

Mine (also 4) is also facinated by scorpions and bugs in general - at the Anaheim show he was more interested in the bugs and creepy crawlies than the snakes - but I guess he sees snakes at home all the time.

But yeah - I see a scorpion joining our ark sometime in the near future too.
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

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