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how do you get your parents to let you keep more snakes.

Move out.
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Jason

im trying too,but my mom starts crying when i bring it up.i will soon but not this soon

How many have you got already? Tell her there are people on this forum whose collection is in double figures!

reako45

hide them in your room. I've kept 3 snakes hidden for almost a year now lol.
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1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Rex- "normal" orange fire)
1.0.0 Bearded Dragon (Glutany- German Giant Mix)
0.1.0 Okeetee Corn (Okatee)
1.1.0 Spotted Python (Hotdog and Shoelace)

LOL...

Its not a snake, but I recently bought a tarantula that is in my classroom. My wife doesn't need to know about it.

i dont know why i never tried this.if my mom finds them she'll be like,''what is this i found under the bed''.you know like dirty mags.anyway a lock will solve this problem.

Sorry, but being of the parental age rather than the teenager age, I think that locks are never the answer.

The answer is to come forward and discuss honestly why you want another snake and why your parents don't want you to have one. If you take that approach, the problem might be solveable.

If it is fear based (i.e. parent terrified of snakes) then some time and some patient education on your part might cure that.

If it is because they don't think you would/could care for them properly, them demonstrate your responsibility by properly caring for your current captives.

I think if you approach them honestly, they will reply honestly. That doesn't mean you can necessarily bridge the gap, but it is the most likely way to attain what you want.

Man, I sound old!! I sound like my Dad. Ouch!
I guess if I was seventeen still I might tell you to try the sneaky approach, but that rarely works for long. And the penalties for getting caught usually exceed the value you gained from sneaking around - that I know from experience!
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

she thinks the lockable rubbermaids arent secure i even weigh it down.shae thinks it will escape and strangle me in my sleep

WOW
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1.0 CB Fiancee` (Gregory)
1.1 Burmese (Gravity, Niran)
1.1 Albino Burm (Rodimus, Typhoid Mary)
5.9 Ball python(too many to list)
1.0 Green tree Python (Scotty Don't)
1.0 Amazon Tree Boa (BigE)
0.1 Hog Island (Jane)
0.1 Nic red tail (Bonita)
1.0 Mystery Boa (Mr. Lee Ho)
1.1 BCI(Pugsly, Odessa)
0.1 Ambon Retic(marilyn)
3.3 King snakes (various phases)
1.1 Blood Pythons(Taint, Dee)
2.4 Leopard Geckos
2.0 dumb-estic cats (nugget & pedro)
1.0 Pit Bull (joker)
0.1 Jack russell/chihuahua (Harley)
1.0 MinPin (Bishop)

They make tanks with locking screen tops. Maybe she'd feel more secure if you kept your budding collection in those?

It's funny all the crap you think you can sneak by your parents when you're younger, but sooner or later, you will be caught! I know I did.
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
2.4.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
2.1.0 Baird's Rat Snakes
1.2.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trinket Rat Snake
1.0.0 Japanese Rat Snake
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
1.0.0 Het Amel San Diego Gopher Snake
0.1.0 San Diego Gopher Snake
3.2.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snakes
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnake
2.1.0 Gray Banded Kingsnakes (1.1 River Road, 1.0 Non-Locale Specific)
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.2.0 California Kingsnakes
0.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
0.1.0 Florida Kingsnake
1.1.0 Boa Constrictors
0.1.0 Dumeril's Boa
2.0.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican & Mid Baja)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Ball Pythons
1.0.0 Woma Python
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Macklot's Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Malagasy Giant Hognoses
1.0.0 Blacktail Cribo

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
3.1.0 Bearded Dragons (2 Normal, 1 RedXGold, 1 Citrus)
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko

FROGS
2.2.0 Southern Bell Frogs
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
1.1.1 White's Tree Frogs
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

is SECURE caging, something there's no way the captive could escape from without your own mistake. Another thing, approach your Dad looking for help in building something really nice for your collection....hmmm, son asking dad to help build something?

Long ago I had a similar problem with my wife, she was not real thrilled with keeping snakes in the house. Her father is a cabinet maker and the two of us built my first cage. Very secure and lockable. She was happy and so was I. Now she's been around me and my snakes for so long I no longer need to have lockable cages. For the most part they are still lockable except the drawer racks.

These are two I have for my Brazilian Rainbow Boas:

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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
13.24 BRB
12.14 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I solved the problem of my wife not liking my snakes by building a snake shed outside in my backyard. I realize you probably don't have the resources(money) to do that. DON't do what the Menendez Brothers did when they had a disagreement with their parents.