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What turned you on?

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Green Bean

Reptile Chick
Ok now, what turned you onto keeping snakes?


I'll go first. I kept having a nightmare about a giant yellow snake attacking me. The nightmares go so severe that I ended up swinging my fiance at night. So I decided to face my fear and get into snakes. Yeah it's a iddy biddy corn but still...

I hope some day to face my giant yellow snake and handle him. He was kinda like a giant yellow anaconda.
 
I found out you could buy already dead food for them. Then I held one--then I bought it. Now I have about 30.
 
Found one in my yard and she wouldn't get off me till I took her in the house and set her up.

Nanci
 
My friends have a pair of Ball Pythons, which is what got me curious about snakes to start with, then when we were looking round the reptile shop i saw all the different morphs of corns and fell in love :)
 
I love most animals. Doesn't matter what they are. But my 10th grade bio teacher had a California Kingsnake that was the sweetest snake, and I fell in love then, but couldn't buy one 'til now, when I had my own "place" to keep him at.
 
Mr. Perry, my 8th grade science teacher. He had a blind kingsnake that was kept in the classroom. I used to spend my study halls in his room, and he let me take out the snake on occasion.
 
Hypancistrus said:
But my 10th grade bio teacher had a California Kingsnake that was the sweetest snake, and I fell in love then, but couldn't buy one 'til now, when I had my own "place" to keep him at.
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Jrgh17 said:
Mr. Perry, my 8th grade science teacher. He had a blind kingsnake that was kept in the classroom. I used to spend my study halls in his room, and he let me take out the snake on occasion.
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Wow... yay for science teachers.... lol
 
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Freshman year of high school I got the idea to diagram and explain the digestive system of a snake and attempt to feed it during my presentation.

Set the garter snake on the science lab table, placed a live flip-floppy goldfish on the table next to him and he was on it in a heart beat. I'm still as fascinated by snakes today as I was then and that's been a couple:rolleyes: of years now.
 
Jrgh17 said:
Wow... yay for science teachers.... lol
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Yes I am hoping to warp... I mean... INSPIRE young minds in the same way as I was... inspired. :grin01:

I also used to haunt this teachers room. Eventually he just left me there and I'd clean all the cages and tanks one by one. Eat lunch there, stay after there... lol! I was nuts then too! :sidestep:
 
Catching garter snakes in the summer as a kid. I LOVED those snakes. Every time I caught one, I always wanted to take it home, but I thought that it would be a bad idea to "take one from its home" and cage it, not to mention my paretns would NEVER let me have a snake.

When I discovered corn snakes, I fell in love INSTANTly. I had to wait a couple years before I could get one, but as soon as I was out of my parent's house I started researching FURIOUSLY..... and now I have my snake!

And now, almost a month later, I'm STILL suffering from what I thought was new-snake-owner-itis......
turns out its just plain old cornsnake addiction.
 
My son had a corn snake in his 5th grade classroom. We took care of it during spring break of that year. From that moment on I wanted to get us a snake for ourselves. It took a few years but now I have 3.
 
plasticknives said:
Catching garter snakes in the summer as a kid. I LOVED those snakes.
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Me too! I still love them! What a great snake- plentiful, pretty, tames down fast, very predictible and easy to find. I caught hundreds as a kid- catch and release. Brought my daughter up catching them, too.

Nanci
 
almost every year in grade school a herpotologist would come into our classrooms with his assistant and his troup of snakes. I was always one of the kids who volunteered to hold a snake. Interestingly enough I was the only girl in my class that ever volunteered.. hhmm.. guess I was nuts back then too. :D But I guess the fascination stayed with me until I could get one. Now I have the fever and can't wait to get more.
 
When I was in grade school, a boy chased me with a snake. When I complained to my dad, he took me to a neighbor's house where they had a garter snake in a clothespin bag, hanging on the clothes line. (Don't ask me why!). He said "No child of mine is going to be afraid of snakes!" Seemed like the garter was about 6' or 8' long at the time, but I quickly got used to it.

By the time I was in high school and had a room full of snakes (with occasional escapes into the rest of the house), he may have regretted his decision to cure me of my fears!
 
My friend gave me one of her hatchlings and from then on i was hooked. I went to a show and 'just had to get another one'.... I came home that day with two. So three corns on two weeks. :rolleyes: Now almost a whole year later I have 10. :cool:
 
i've never been afraid of snakes, i just wasn't alowed to keep them till i was 16.

but when i was 7 (maybe 8) my dad bought me "a color guide to cornsnakes" and i've loved them ever since. unfortunatly, my mom and step-dad thought it would be a good idea to move down south, so now i'm stuck in the wrong state for my hobby lol
 
I'd never actually even seen a snake until a few years ago (not properly... I'd seen a bit of coil in the zoo and that sort of thing...) so I think my fascination of snakes is credited to slowworms. For those who might not know, those are lizards, but they have no legs so they look just like stocky little snakes. I used to pick them up and run in to the house with them as a child - so I think it's down to them that I have never been afraid of a creature with no legs. I properly got in to snakes when I worked voluntarily at a friend's exotic pet shop. I handled her corns every week and just fell in love.

I have since seen snakes in the wild - once watched a 5ft grass snake swimming across a lake. Those things are amazing when they swim. :)
 
kathylove said:
When I was in grade school, a boy chased me with a snake. When I complained to my dad, he took me to a neighbor's house where they had a garter snake in a clothespin bag, hanging on the clothes line. (Don't ask me why!). He said "No child of mine is going to be afraid of snakes!" Seemed like the garter was about 6' or 8' long at the time, but I quickly got used to it.

By the time I was in high school and had a room full of snakes (with occasional escapes into the rest of the house), he may have regretted his decision to cure me of my fears!
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This is a pretty neat story!

I used to be that kid... I had the snake and the other kids would run away from it....
but I never chased them. I'd sit with the snake, unconcerned with everything else, and kids would come up to see what I was so fascinated with, take one look, and runnnnn awwayyyy.

A few would keep their distance and watch, but there were not many brave enough to come see.... funny because of how sweet the garters were.



Nanci, I'm still in love with garters too, I don't know why I used past tense! It's illegal to keep native species here though, so there will be no garters in my house.... only beautiful corns, and maybe a ball python or two. :)
 
plasticknives said:
Catching garter snakes in the summer as a kid. I LOVED those snakes.
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Same here! Caught a lot of snakes, frogs, and turtles up at my grandparents lakeside cottage.

But living at home I didn't keep herps as pets because the parents said no. (Well, mom would of let us, but dad said no. :rolleyes: )

So after I was on my own for a few years I got a couple of geckos. After I married I convinced my husband that we needed a snake. :grin01:
 
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