How many of you started out.........

[crimsonking]

....your love for herps with something like this guy?? Increasingly hard to find anywhere the introduced brown anole is thriving. I still love to see 'em!

[Bryce Masuk]

I used to have a green a anole and a race lizard i can rember what it was i was like 8 my dad did most of the work

[norman]

i had garter snakes and alligator lizards when i was younger, then my grandpa gave me some kind of swift when i was like 7...thats how i started.

[asphyxia]

Yep, I sure did, they always look like they know somthing we dont.

Regards
Brian

[BIG SCOTT]

I love Green Anloes and use to always catch them for fun, but lately i have been catching them for snake food. Kind of ironic i guess.

[BWSmith]

Green Anole was my first herp in the 3rd grade.

[Andy_G]

I had 3 green anoles. They were my first ever herps. I got them when I was about 6.

[BoidKeeper]

I did'nt start with em but I had em not long after the start.
Great pic.
Trevor

[Trace]

I remember when.... *shakes my cane*

Yep, yep... that was my first herp, and I blame him for my ongoing addiction to all things reptilian.

Trace

[peregrinefalcon]

I started out with a pair of those too, one lived for 7 years! He just died recently :(
Adam

[reptilez]

I started out with a small leopard gecko when i was 11 then got a 2 bearded dragons then a ball python......I still need more its like an addiction.

[Kathy]

Yep, used to catch those and the brown ones every year when we went to Florida for spring break. I always wanted to bring them home, but my parents said it was too cold for them to live in our house (which is true, without the aid of UTH and lights and such, my house is freezing!)

[andrea88]

Its too cold up here for anoles, but my addiction started as spending hours catching tadpoles and frogs out in the bush and forever hoping to find a salamander (never did :P)

Those were the days!

[snakemann87]

yep, always had tons of those. I came back from vacation to find 2 EGGS!!!!!!!! lol i was only like 8.

[snakemann87]

oh and crimson, i always see 4 or 5 green anoles at the local pet store?

[snake_lover]

i never started with any lizards ,,i saw a boa in a pet store LOOONNG ago when there still was a pet shop that was selling snakes ..So i saw it for sale but i had 2 ask my dad first so he said yes and the day after that i went to the shop to buy her and it turned out that he was sold 10 minutes before i got there ...:( and it turned out to be my best friends:O but i started with racers i used to catch in my garden

[crimsonking]

Please, it's Mark.

[girraffasaurus]

Aw Man, I miss those things! My mom is always bitching about how the brown Cubans or whatever they're called have chased them out. I think the brown ones look like mini velociraptors! They look fierce for such a tiny animal. I liked how the green ones did the littlt throat thing too. Of course, my cat misses them too!

[RachelS.]

I got into my love of reptiles when I was about 2 years old. I caught a little lizard and it's tail fell off so I put a band-aid on the tail :D. Then I brought it to one of my older brother's ball games, lol.
I found my love for snakes when I was about 7 or 8... I went with my grandma on a trip to Grandburry, Texas and my great aunt had snakes in her yard... cute little earth snakes!

I started out keeping them with an iguana at age 5. I got it from a reptile store (which I wish hadn't closed down because it was so close to our house), but they told me to feed it greenleaf lettuce. Which is better than iceberg, but still doesn't contain the nutrients they need that they can get from Greens and most other veggies. I started out keeping it in a 10 gallon, then a 20, then they gave me a really cool 6' tall cage for about $50. Pretty crazy stuff... from cage to cage. Sadly it died because of bad husbandary :(.

[crimsonking]

I saw by the pool today.

[Canadaherp]

i've a few and the oldest is 10 this september, and the others are 9 years old THEY DONT DIE if theyre taken care of (and if theyre not like in my case and the 10 year old is shedding believe it or not