How did you get into reptiles?

[smy_749]

I don't know if there is a thread like this already. I didn't find one.

Anyways my old friend from high school was chatting with me, and reminded me of a book that sparked my interest in snakes. I was in like 2nd grade and got a childrens book about GTP's called Verdi , does anyone else remember that book?

[CarissaREVV]

I don't recall a book like that but as for your question. I had a teacher in high school that had a corn snake that I was allowed to hold and had even got to feed and since then I wanted a snake and finally got one last aug. from there I have two ball pythons two bearded dragons red eyed tree frog my husband has a boa 6 dart frogs and we have 6 fire belly toads we love them all. We also have a cat but my hubby cares not for the little kitty

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by CarissaREVV

I don't recall a book like that but as for your question. I had a teacher in high school that had a corn snake that I was allowed to hold and had even got to feed and since then I wanted a snake and finally got one last aug. from there I have two ball pythons two bearded dragons red eyed tree frog my husband has a boa 6 dart frogs and we have 6 fire belly toads we love them all. We also have a cat but my hubby cares not for the little kitty

Verdi: Janell Cannon: 9780152010287: Amazon.com: Books

[CarissaREVV]

Cover looks familiar I may have read it.

[Ivanator]

I grew up catching lizards in my backyard, but when I went to the SD Zoo in first grade, I fell in love with the huge snakes and komodo dragon. It just got worse from then on.

[Julius2314]

I lived in Florida as a child, and used to catch lizards, frogs, snakes, turtles of all kinds. So my parents purchased me a snake so I would stop catching them. I had caught a coral snake. But it has just recently been sparked in me 10 yrs later lol. Now I have a corn, ball, and a carpet

[bcr229]

Last summer my daughter said that she wanted "a snake" for her birthday. I said no way, the hubby said yes so I was outvoted. Now we've got ten plus four in QT with one more going to QT in a separate room tomorrow.

In many ways I prefer them over the four-footed critters.

[StudentoReptile]

The home page of my blog says it all.

[Starbuck]

i started with tarantulas and scorpions at 16 (so many legs!!), then chameleons and geckos, and got my first kingsnake 2 years ago... now i have only 2 tarantulas, 2 geckos, and 6 snakes!

[Aaron_S]

The story goes it started when I was 3.

[DragonsEye]

Always had a fascination with "critters" for as long as I can remember. No idea just when it started though my childhood interest in dinosaurs no doubt played a role.

[smy_749]

Originally Posted by DragonsEye

Always had a fascination with "critters" for as long as I can remember. No idea just when it started though my childhood interest in dinosaurs no doubt played a role.

Yea me too, definitely started with dinosaurs and cartoons like land before time if anyone remember that.

But specifically reptiles, I think started with the book, can't remember for sure. My aunt lives in the middle of nowhere, and has huge piles of wood out back. Started catching garters and ringnecks there every week almost when I was in second grade too

[Freebody]

when I was born my dad had 2 rtb's, a few years later he got rid of them, then when I was around 4-5 ish I got a couple iguanas, they died because I didn't know how to care for them properly and my folks pretty much said its my pet my responsibility and the internet wasn't around back then to research for free, I was very sad and they never got me anything else after that. I caught various garters and frogs and salamanders and kept them for a few days at a time when I was growing up, I went herping everyday almost up to about 10 or so, so basically I always had something lol, around 15 I went and got a rtb of my own, then a 2nd, I had them for 10 years or so, at age 20 I was a victim of a violent crime, had to spend 37k in multiple surgeries to fix my face, so I sold everything I owned including my snakes and took a few years off herping, as I payed it all off, then we moved, and got new neighbors, they knocked on the door one day to show me his RTB he had out, well that sparked that herper blood in me again, I went out a few weeks later and got my retic bella in 2008, and now here we are, back in the saddle again, with many more snakes and lizards and fish, I'll be a herper for life!

[Theweinz]

For me it started when I found a Fox Snake when I was 10 years old. The thing was so unbelievably cool- made a huge impression on me. At first I had no idea what to feed him so I went to the library(years ago!) and found Kauffelds' book "the Keeper and the Kept," and then went to a pet store and bought a mouse which "Foxy" constricted and consumed immediately. I was hooked! Always remember the Kauffald book too, bought a first edition a couple of years back. I kept the fox snake for several years but it "escaped," -however, I strongly suspect my mother freed it because she absolutely hated snakes. I will never forget that first Fox snake!

[Lankyrob]

Always loved lizards and snakes as a kid but on,y experience was seeing them at a zoo.

Then when i had my accident i was sent to a pain group and got chatting to a guy there who kept snakes and offered to let me meet them, went home after holding one of his and said to my wife that i wanted a snake expecting her to laugh and she said she loved them too!

Four months or so later we had seven snakes and two lizards.