Just my thoughts I am 53 yrs old, and ten years ago if you told me that I would own a Burmese python I would say you had gone off the deep end. Ten years ago I didn’t even want to own a snake. I am an animal lover, I wasn’t a snake hater. But then it happened. I knew a guy at work who had a lot of snakes. So being an animal lover we started talking about his snakes. This went on for weeks on breaks we would just sit and talk about snakes. With me asking all kinds of questions from why even have a snake to have you ever gotten tagged, by one of them. Then one day he ask me if I would like to come over and take a look at his collection of snakes. I said yes. I went over to his house, he brought out a baby Jungle Carpet Python. I held it in my hand and that was it, I was hooked. Before I left I was holding a 7ft boa with it draped over my shoulders. And now I own a few snakes one being 13ft burm. I just lost my 16ft female burm a few days ago. I posted it on here, and thank you, to the ones that posted those kind words. To think I would be heart broken over a snake. But to me she wasn’t just a snake she was part of me. So as someone who started out late in life owning these wonderful reptiles, we really do need to keep up the fight, so we may always have the privilege of having these reptiles in our lives. I will be 80yrs old, and I know I will have some kind of snake in my life. ( I do own a pair of Children’s Pythons). I just thought I would put it out there. Now that Athena is gone I have an empty cage, and you know what they say an empty cage is not a happy cage. I will be looking to replace her with another Burm.
Tom ( T-Man)
