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Being a relative newcomer to this forum, I think it would be fantastic if I knew more about my fellow collared-lovers. Though I have become acquainted with many of you from reading your posts, I would be delighted if you guys would share a little bit more about yourselves. Tell as much as you are comfortable with; it doesn't have to be herp related. I'll start:

I am a thirty three year old mother and wife. My daughter, Talia, is five. My husband's name is Rick; he's the domestic one of the house. I live in Alabama. I work full time for the phone company. I have kept lizards since I was old enough to chase them, but didn't discover collareds until about seven or eight years ago. Though my collection of four legged critters is expansive, my hands down favorites are my collared lizards. Over the years it seems like I have owned nearly every lizard available in the pet trade: Iguanas, Blue Tongued Skinks, Leopard lizards, Geckos of many descriptions, Bearded Dragons, several Chameleons, Anoles, Agamas, and I know probably another dozen that I can't even think of right now. Back in 1994 I got a license plate on my Miata that reads "LZRD LVR" and my Toyota has "LZRD LDY" on it. Obviously, lizards have been my passion for along time. Recently I have acquired a few amphibians and found them to be delightful little critters, too. On the warm-blooded front I intend to start breeding Siamese cats as soon as my new boy, Deke, arrives in January.

Already this forum is one of my favorite places on the internet. It's nice to meet you all.

élan
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0.2.0 Collareds
1.0.0 Mali Uromastix
0.0.1 Butterfly Agama
1.0.0 Green Anole
1.0.0 Chinese Dwarf Newt
2.0.0 California Newts
0.0.1 White's Treefrog
0.0.1 Fire bellied toad
0.0.1 American Bullfrog
0.0.1 Midland Brown Snake
1.1.0 Felines
0.2.0 Canines
1.0.0 Equine

>>Being a relative newcomer to this forum, I think it would be fantastic if I knew more about my fellow collared-lovers.

www.mcmartinville.com has everything you never wanted to know about me.

Except for the license plate bit. I don't have a pic, but I have one of the "horny toad" license plates from TX on my car.
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Chris McMartin
www.mcmartinville.com
I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet

I'm quite strange, like to laugh, and be happy as much as I can. I'm in my 40's was married and had my 2 sons very young. So they are both married, and have their own kids now.

I had a stained glass shop in my home, I created stained glass windows, mirrors, suncatchers, lamps, ect... for awhile, until slowly my lizards took over my shop, and it became a reptile room. LOL

I also made and sold handcrafted beaded jewlery for awhile.
But my life long passion has been animals, all kinds , all sizes , all furries, feathery, fishy, and scaley.
I always took in hurt or orphaned beasts and pathed them up, and usually once here they moved in

I really got heavily into reptiles and frogs and decided to breed certain species. Collareds being my main focus and a few others I'm working with as well. I have doggies, cats, a bunny, a squirrel, and fish besides the lizards and frogs.

And my mate, who puts up with us all. Hes pretty Special

I found Kingsnake, and loved it, all the differnt forums, the people, the learning, sharing, pics, so when I was asked to be a moderator/ host, (well I hesitated abit) not knowing what to expect.
But decided to do it, and I'm so happy I did.

I have met the greatest bunch of lizard loving , animal nuts ever, and its been a BLAST ! I have learned, and been able to teach and give back to new members the knowledge I have gained from other more eperieced herpers, its GREAT and gets better all the time.

Besides critters, taking pics of critters, stained glass , fishing, Baseball, plants, I like to study the bible and take classes in discipleship at a Christian university, online.

~ I hope one day we truely can have PEACE on Earth ~
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Eve / PHEve

well, i am 24 and the youngest of three girls. i am very much so the baby and have a hard time caring for myself financially, hee hee. my oldest sister makes fun of me for it. i love going to school and my masters will be my third degree. i got two bachelors degrees in the time it takes one. lol i am a nerd with school. but i love being social which got me into mischief when i was younger, what am i saying, even now! i got into lizards because i was doing a responsibility plan, i took care of a plant without killing it and decided to move onto a fish, well the guy let me hold a lizard and he crawled up my arm and tongue flicked my ear and so i bought walter the first.
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vonnie
***There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Wilson Little ***

My name is Scott, teen, I'm from Alberta, Canada originally (No lizards there ) but I live in Oklahoma now, near the Wichitas (which is were I dicovered Collared Lizards in all their glory. ) My list of lizards talks for me pretty well. I just got the Iguana and the Salamanders this week. In Canada I had a succession of cats (Try keeping a cat alive outside in Coyote country) With one being very special, he loved to stowaway in vehicles. My first exotic pet was hermit crabs, here in Oklahoma, and then I moved on to lizards when I discovered Racerunners and Fence Lizards. A collared named Critter was the first lizard that was really a pet.
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0.1 Veiled Chameleon
0.1.1 Green Anoles
1.1 Easten Collared Lizards
1.1 Tiger Salamanders
1.0 Green Iguana

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and delibrately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. - Thomas Carlyle

Most people in America are either Democrat or Republican. I am neither. It is much more fun to sit back and wach them batter each other to dust.

Let there be Lizardz
- Scott

I am 42, divorced, no kids. Have been in a committed relationship with Sam for years, but we do not live together. I am a respiratory therapist and work nights in a hospital. I live in northern New Mexico where mountains meet desert. I have not had a pet in over 10 years, then in May this year Sam caught my first collared, Otis. I never had an interest in reptiles and was afraid of Otis until he tamed down. Now I have 5 collareds, Otis and his 2 ladies, Saige and Fawn, also wild captured. And the babies, Saige's boy Hermes and the wild captured Cadence. They are just magnificently beautiful and amazing little creatures, and it surprised me how much I enjoy them.
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Valerie

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.--

God bless the USA

vrk.photosite.com

Hello,

I am 21 years old. I grew up in Alaska, so I wasn't interested in reptiles. They just stood still like statues in pet shops up there (freezing). I enjoyed having dogs, 1 cat, rabbits, hamsters, fish, and chickens.

I attended UAA full time for a couple years. I've been married for 8 months and live in rural Nevada. The job market is a little depressed here, so I don't have a job at the moment. My husband is allergic to anything with fur and I've warmed to scaley creatures quite well. My husband grew up chasing herps, but didn't think they would be great pets. Ezra, Annabella, and Cory sure proved him wrong.

I enjoy arts and crafts. We both like to spend a lot of our free time hiking, backpacking, camping, and rock climbing (I'm the novice). I love learning more about reptiles.

One of my most exciting moments here in Nevada was seeing a baby desert tortoise and its mama. I know where the mom's den is they are a protected species. Its neat they live in the desert. You're not supposed to go close to them in case they get scared. The tortoise can spray pee at you, then die from dehydration :O

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-Nicole

2.1.0 collared lizards
2.0.0 side-blotched lizards
1.0.0 desert tarantula
small tropical fishes