New to the forum but not to snake keeping

[TheLastBaron]

I have loved and kept snakes for most of my life, I'm 37 years old. I haven't been really active in the hobby for a few years now, but I am getting back into it. I have a ball python who is 22 years old this year, and I recently rescued a Texas Rat from a friends garage where it was scaring people and living inside an old stereo receiver. Their names are Cleo (the ball) and Eve (the Tex Rat). Eve is about 4 foot 3 inches and has a remarkably calm disposition for a Texas Rat (I have caught many and they are usually quite prickly). In the process of transforming my kitchen into the snake room right now. I'm looking to get maybe one or two more snakes and I also keep a couple of aquatic turtles (a painted turtle and a yellow bellied slider).

Since I was 6-8 years old I have been capturing snakes wild and keeping them for awhile and then releasing them, I have mostly kept native snakes to this area since if they don't take well to handling or captivity in general, I tend to release them. If I catch one that's injured I'll usually rehab it and then release it when it's good to go. I recently captured a yellow bellied racer that had been run over, just the tip of it's tail. After 3-4 months the damaged end of the tail fell off and it all healed nicely into a stub tail and now that little beauty is good to go and has been released.

I am known to a circle of people in the area as 'the guy to call' when you have a snake problem. I live in southeast texas so plenty of cottonmouths, rattlesnakes, and copperheads, along with a huge variety of other snakes such as racers, garters, rat snakes, and king snakes. I am fairly well read and studied, and also have hands on experience with most snakes native to the area. I am always open to questions, or available to help people out with snake removal and rehoming in the Galveston area. I release most of the snakes I relocate on an abandoned golf coarse in the area where I also do quite abit of snake catching. It's sort of my own personal snake reserve.

[Albert Clark]

Well Baron, that was a heck of a manifesto! Haha. We are pleased to have you here and to correct us when we're wrong. Enjoy.

[SoPhilly]

Hi and welcome!

[jossh27]

Originally Posted by Albert Clark

Well Baron, that was a heck of a manifesto! Haha. We are pleased to have you here and to correct us when we're wrong. Enjoy.

yeah, that beat my introduction... "hi! my names josh... i like snakes... oh look shiny things"


welcome baron

[David VB]

Danm, that is one hell of an introduction post!!! Welcome here and looking forward to some stories and pictures of your snake catchings/releases

[EL Ziggy]

Welcome and best wishes.

[TheLastBaron]

Thanks for the warm welcome, did some snake hunting today but only came up with one fairly large skin. Four foot 9 inches, fresh rat snake shed. I also spent some time looking for the isolated pockets of cuban anoles that have spread through Galveston County, I did better with that and bagged 4. Two males and two females. It's easy to see why they have spread so readily since they were mating in the cage within 4 hours of capture. Waiting for my phone to charge back up so I can post some pictures.

[Albert Clark]

Whaaaaaat! And I thought Lil' Ceasers was the only "hot and ready".