All my life I've grown up around snakes, mostly non-venomous, other than the copper heads/ timber-eastern DB rattlesnakes. And have always loved picking them up and looking at them, mostly rough greens and garters. Then last summer I was working (USPS non-postal employee, self employed) driving along delivering mail with my dad whom I work with, and we saw a rough green snake in the road and it was in between us and the mailbox, so I had to get out of the car to deliver the mail, to avoid running it over, then on the way back to the car my dad says "Bet you won't pick it up, chicken" (snakes are all evil and always want to bite, according to my parents) so I calmly pick it up, and get in the car and tell dad to drive. This is an adult green snake and it is pretty calm after only 1 or 2 minutes of being held, so I start trying to get dad to hold it or touch it, or even let it get close to his side of the car, and he's having none of it (who's the chicken again?) I kept it for perhaps half the day, holding it, showing it to people, then at the end of the day I turned it loose at the edge of a medium sized field that I know to be full of field mice and grasshoppers (thought I was doing him/her a favor, hope I was right). That day was my equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, and falling the rest of the way in love with snakes. This was the first website I found JUST about corns, and where I have learned almost everything I know about them. Now that I've had my corn for nearly 3 months, I've warmed my parents up on snakes a bit, my mom has even held him, dads still iffy though. I have a Sunglow Motley named Sir Blinky Starch of Winterfell (Sir Blinky for short) who's currently in blue, and plan on getting another as soon as I can get another viv set up and ready to go. All the stories on here are really awesome, really good reading, I hope this continues!
