Mine started when I was about two and I would try to catch water mocasins that would roam into our yard(we lived on the bay). After having to be locked inside and having long meaningless at the time lectures about how dangerous snakes could be I had to stick catching lizards for awhile until i started learning how to tell a poisonous snake from a nonpoisonous snake, which was when i was around 6 or 7 and i started catching grass snakes and garden snakes which my mom would not let me keep. It wasn't until I was 13 that I finally convinced my mom to let my have a snake, a central american red tail. About a month after that I got columbian redtail, and a few months ago I got a 10 foot burmese. Now being 16 I can only begin to imagine what the future has to hold for me. Everybody thats kept reptiles from childhood did you always keep them or did your interest sort of phase out and then came back again? I love to read all of you veteran keepers posts and can't wait for the day that I might be in yalls same place. Anyways just thought I'd share.
Katy
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At what age did everyones fascination start with reptiles?
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During my youth I have had many pets: Iguanas, Fish, Dogs, Cats, Parrots, Birds, Turtles, Squirrels and Caimans to name some. I've always loved animals, just no snakes. I used to hate the things!
I have been in college 4yrs and wanted a pet more interactive than a fish or lizard and that was not as a daily time consuming as a dog or cat.
One day last year I came in contact with an 8ft BCI. I was very scared of this thing, it was HUGE. Then for some strange reason I kept coming across others... dumerils, pythons, etc. I decided to be adventurous and did serious research on snakes and found that a Ball Python would make a relatively inexpensive, hardy, safe, not too big, but equally impressive, interactive pet that would require significantly less maintence than other exotic animals. After searching around for one, I was sold!
On my 21st b'day I bought Spot... It's been 6 mnths and now I have another one, Speck, and also a BCI, Belle. I can't believe I ever had a phobia of such wonderful creatures and I do all I can to educate snake haters everywhere about how misinformed they are.
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-Iman
1.1 Balls
0.1 Boa (BCI)
0.0 Experience
100.0 LOVE
Helping to Love
Loving to Learn
Learning to Help
The first fascination was with turtles and salamanders..Then quickly went to Torts and lizards when my dad was stationed in Incirlik Turkiye...and after that I became interested in snakes and have kept atleast some sort of boid since 15.(I am now 26)
Later
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Randall L Turner Jr.
www.aircapitalconstrictors.com
You never experience life until you have kids..then you realize what you should have done rather then what you did do
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't catching frogs, salamanders, newts, lizards and small snakes...much to my mother's dismay - the daughter is NOT supposed to have slimy things in her pockets or clutched in her grubby little hands. I more than made up for my older brother's lack of interest in the slimy and scaly! lol Of course, no snakes were allowed in the house (Mom was terrified of them back then). I got my first boa experience when dating my 2nd husband - he had a beautiful 8' female common boa...I was hooked. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, she passed away, and I bought my first boa from a local petstore (to replace the one which died for my ex). The collection grew to two boas, a ball python and a burmese python by the time he and I split up. Twelve years gone by and now I have 25 snakes of several different types - I still own three of the original four, selling off only the male burmese I used to have to a fellow who really wanted to work with burms. For myself, the passion and interest has never waned...I still love all my scaly kids. 
Raven
i am 13 and when i was little i used to begg for a snake i could never find garter snakes but i did run into a couple of rattlers which i was lectured on (but lecturing to a 4 year old doesent work too well.)well when i was 11 i got my first snake a ball python then i got a col. boa which didnt work out. then i made a resue which landed me with a gopher snake then last august i got my guyana boa . im working on the burmese python but it mite take a while for mom to let that one in the house.
