How did you get into reptiles?

[Trollbie]

Originally Posted by smy_749

So go get one then :-P.

I'm not allowed to get a retic (for now) and I haven't come across a baby woma yet I would rather not buy online

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by Trollbie

I'm not allowed to get a retic (for now) and I haven't come across a baby woma yet I would rather not buy online

Buy a retic, call it a woma and nobody has to know. Blame his size on freak genetics.

[Trollbie]

Originally Posted by smy_749

Buy a retic, call it a woma and nobody has to know. Blame his size on freak genetics.

My boyfriend is smart. And I'm dumb for showing him what each looks like haha

[LadyWraith]

Originally Posted by Trollbie

I accidentally came home with a milksnake.

I'm using that excuse next time I acquire a new animal.

[Trollbie]

Originally Posted by LadyWraith

I'm using that excuse next time I acquire a new animal.

It totally works!

In fact, I went to visit a new reptile store today, so if you see a thread about my new hognose, I swear it was an accident. D:

[Danimal]

Me saying no has never stopped my wife for doing exactly what she wanted anyway..... The great dane probably pissed me off the most.

[Chris72]

Re: title question.....

Grew up knee deep in ever pond, stream, creek, lake, culvert, puddle, soggy forest I could get my hands on. I was always bringing home something's new and somehow caring for them out of some kind of intuition. (We loose that a little as adults)

I am allergic to cats and dogs so since the early days it has always been reptiles and, once there was a little bit more money, exotic birds on the side!

My wife is always amazed that we can be walking down the beach in cancun talking about xxx and I can spot (from 10 feet away) a tiny ghost crab or Anole (lizard) hiding under somthing, catch it on the first try, show her and let it go unharmed.

Something's shouldn't change.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by Chris72

Re: title question.....

Grew up knee deep in ever pond, stream, creek, lake, culvert, puddle, soggy forest I could get my hands on. I was always bringing home something's new and somehow caring for them out of some kind of intuition. (We loose that a little as adults)

I am allergic to cats and dogs so since the early days it has always been reptiles and, once there was a little bit more money, exotic birds on the side!

My wife is always amazed that we can be walking down the beach in cancun talking about xxx and I can spot (from 10 feet away) a tiny ghost crab or Anole (lizard) hiding under somthing, catch it on the first try, show her and let it go unharmed.
Something's shouldn't change.

Yea I'm the same with the wife. Everyone is talking and having fun, and I'm the weirdo in the corner lifting up rocks....or driving down the street pointing out agamids on the side of the road (there are hundreds in Jordan, and I never tire of seeing them/pointing it out)

[Pareeeee]

I've always loved 'creepy crawlies' and animals that other people don't tend to like. Since I was a toddler I've always loved insects, spiders, snakes, lizards, frogs and the like. My bedroom was always filled with containers and little terrariums filled with bugs, frogs, etc. I was called the 'bug girl' or 'walking encyclopaedia'. lol...I would, and still do, pick up almost any creature (even have fed wasps from my hand)

I have always loved snakes but became more and more interested in them in recent years.

I like routing for the underdogs of the animal world.
(rooting?)

[marvelfreak]

I
For me it all started over 20 years ago when my brother
-in-law went into the Marines. he had a snake and asked if we could keep it for him. when he bought it he was told it was a boa. After i got it i wanted to learn more about it so i bought. Pythons and Boas: Peter J. Stafford: 9780866220842: Amazon.com: Books

After seeing pictures of Diamond Python, Bloods Pythons and Brazilian rainbows i was in love. A year later i had around a dozen snakes. Been keeping Boas and Pythons ever since.

[Freebody]

Originally Posted by Danimal

Me saying no has never stopped my wife for doing exactly what she wanted anyway..... The great dane probably pissed me off the most.

LOL! I couldn't imagine how mad i would be if i didn't want to get one, It would not be so bad if it were a little dog, just kinda try and over look it, but that one is huge. this post made me laugh pretty good. But im sure the dog has grown on you, dogs have a way of doing that, unless its like my folks dog, went to mc Ds one day came home with this mutt, nonstop super, super high pitch barking as load as she can go, all day everyday......so load her voice cracks out and she chokes sometimes, hate to say it, but when i see it choking i think, could this be the end of my torment? oh their we go, she was just warming up and clearing her throat lol

[Mark Taylor]

When I was 8 I would put my frog wellies on and head of into the woods were the ponds and streams were I would take little plastic tubs in a back pack and try and find some cool stuff.

I often came home with frogs, newts, stickleback fish and tadpoles.

Then we moved and I was 12 me and my mates would go looking for lizards and slow worms, the slow worms I kept a few in my bedroom.

When I was 14 I kept fish guppies mainly and 2 Chinese water dragons.

So when I left home at 16 I could not afford to keep anything and gave them away.

@ 20+ I had about 6 Chinese water dragons they grew big in a 6' high 4' deep 4' wide viv. Then I lost my job and had to sell the whole lot.

And you know the rest.

So I would say my fascination started from a young age. Oh and forgot about when I collected bees and kept them in a suitcase only for my mum to get a massive shock when she looked to see what I was doing lol.

[Novek]

I was 8 and my dad told me my cousin was "getting an iguana". I had no idea what the blazes an iguana was but when I saw it I was mesmerized. However, it was an anole and not an iguana (iguanids, close enough). Within a year I had acquired a red eared slider and a columbian brown basilisk. I've had reptiles consistently ever since.