Single snake owners? - Page 2

eminart · 12-08-14, 02:08 PM

My mother was terrified of snakes, but she was a very nice and understanding anyway. By the time I was 10, she was letting me keep small snakes in the house. Of course, that eventually turned into larger snakes.

I'm 38 now. TECHNICALLY, I just have a single snake at the moment (my eastern indigo). But, my 9 year old daughter has two corns.

**Minkness** · 12-08-14, 02:47 PM

Well, I can say I practice restraint fairly well lol.

Just today I went to a local reptile place to get some store cred for some of my female geckos. They had the most amazing albino reverse okeetee at a lovely size and an adorable personality that I can honestly say I fell in love with, and was priced well under my trade credit. But...my heart is set on a female MBK, so I sadly put it back....then....there was a gorgeous albino checkered garter...omg! A quick hold and I said no again...THEN...omg....a western hognose! (Which is what I think my second addition will be...eventually).It was over priced though.

So....WILL POWER FTW!

And Sylphie, I will totally take that kind of luck!

Hoping that happens because that's how it worked with my geckos and rats. (No more rats though, just geckos and soon a snake!)

Obsidian_Dragon · 12-08-14, 03:14 PM

I started with an MBK, too.

I managed to have only one snake for oh...a month.

Oops?

I already have plans for #3, but it'll have to wait until the next round of babies in summer. And then I'm done! I swear...hahaha...ha.

This sounds sort of like when my husband said "Oh, I'll stick to only 4 pinball machines."

(5, we have 5 now, if you're wondering)

**Minkness** · 12-08-14, 03:58 PM

LOL

Yeah, I have 3 in mind. My MBK, a hognose, and an oteekee , and MAYBE a garter lol.

But my poor mother is begging that I promise this will be my only one. I'm not one for sneaking....but I really don't think I can uphold that promise. Lol. I think she all ready knows I won't have just 1 for long though.

Obsidian_Dragon · 12-09-14, 08:50 AM

I wanted a hognose as #2, but I'm in Illinois. So I'd have to get a permit from the DNR and they JUST started charging $50 a year, and eeeenh. Eeeenh. It's not that I can't afford it, I can, but what if they up the price later, and...eeenh.

Call me both lazy and cheap.

knox · 12-09-14, 09:41 AM

I wish I could whittle my collection down to just one. I really do. To focus on just one enclosure. One snake. Less mice. Less time feeding and watering.

But in the end, I can't. And the extra time is only about 15 minutes for my 8 snakes. I AM trying to sell 2 of them to get down to 6. But man, to only choose ONE to keep? I wish I could make that decision.

**Minkness** · 12-09-14, 12:18 PM

Where do you find the snake laws?

LiL Zap · 12-09-14, 08:31 PM

I own my first and only snake still. I guess it's a sentimental thing for me. I raised her as a baby when I was barely 11 years old and now I'm turning 22 in two weeks. She's still going strong except she lost her vision to cataracts.

Rattlehead · 12-09-14, 09:44 PM

I have only one, but mainly because the lack of space in my appartment! Gotta rearrange some stuff and get another one soon, in the first months of the year

Bandit · 12-09-14, 09:59 PM

I had always wanted snakes but my parents didn't want me to have one. So they made a rule...I couldn't have a snake that ate rodents. Now I was young and didn't know that there were snakes that didn't eat mice/rats. Until a day when I was 12. I caught a Ribbon snake and did some research and realized they didn't eat mice(for the most part). So they let me keep it. They then made a new rule that I could only have one snake at a time. I honored that rule, however my snake didn't...I woke up one morning two months later to my snake and eleven miniature versions of her darting around the tank. The "one snake" rule was pretty much done after that lol.

Lefitte · 12-10-14, 12:56 AM

I got my first snake in September and I've managed not to get anymore haha. Mostly because I don't have room, already have enough animals, and still need to get her her adult enclosure. However, whenever we move and I have more room, I would love to get one more, not sure what kind. I really love the colubrids though so it would probably be something colubrid. I actually had a dream last night that some friend of mine [no idea who] sent me a 'snake starter kit'.. what I didn't realize was that it was a 'snake collector starter kit' and I ended up with an assortment of baby kings, corns, and milks along with an adult 'rare' boa-thing. [Boa-thing because it was called.. an Andrew's Baou, apparently. No idea what that is but it was pretty and docile]. At some point, my snake had also multipled, sort of like Bandit's story haha. Even though I was scrambling to care for them all, it made me really wish I had a few more.

Lefitte · 12-10-14, 03:50 AM

Forgot to mention my family's view on it. My mom's kind of creeped out by it, more than she lets on, but she knows that I've wanted one most of my life and that she won't have to care for it. I make sure not to feed her when others are out in the kitchen [she's in the dining room] and I warn anyone that I'm feeding her if they don't want to see it. I don't push her on anyone either. My niece and mom have sort of pet her. I know my mom is super leery about her getting bigger but she's not even 1 1/2 feet yet, I promised her that she had some time to get used to her. She's happy that I'm happy and comments sometimes about not ever seeing her out, even sounds a little disappointed. She's a good sport at least haha. My dad's lived with reptiles before. Hopefully your mom warms up to them, too. I think being considerate about your family's feelings about touching them or seeing you feed them makes a difference. For example, my mom insists that I keep the mice in an opaque container like a cardboard box in the freezer so that she doesn't have to see them. They're hidden behind my frozen bloodworms and daphnia which are kind of just as gross.

**Minkness** · 12-10-14, 02:51 PM

Lol bandit!

I caught a huge female garter once and begged to keep her, but she was vicious and musked like crazy so the answer was a firm no lol.

Lefitte - I have to keep all of my reptiles in my bedroom and out of sight. I'm forbidden to have my snake out of my room if my mom is home, no asking her to touch it or anything. She's pretty hardcore about that lol. And same for the frozen feeders. Opaque tupperware that she never has to touch. I hope she gets a little more relaxed about it over time though. I don't always want to be locked in my room to play with my beloved scalies. Lol.

Bandit · 12-10-14, 03:01 PM

She was actually really laid back. She was definitely more enjoyable to handle than any of her babies.

**Minkness** · 12-10-14, 04:54 PM

I think I'd like to find a nice neon blue cali red side garter if I go with a garter. Which, I really want to because if their diverse feeding habits lol