How did you get into reptiles? - Page 2

KBHicks2012 · 04-15-13, 06:50 AM

Growing up as a child in the city we had a small vacant field next door that was always filled tons of mother natures creatures. My mother has always been a fan of spiders and insects, can't say that I got that trait from her, deathly scared of spiders for some reason, but I would always head out to that field on the way home and overturn every rock and log looking to see what lied under neither. I found my first garter snake around the age of 5 or six. I began researching my love of snake in school and learned that I had been looking in all the wrong places for the "cool" snakes that my mother didn't want me to find. I remember at the age 8 I finally found that cool snake I wanted crossing the field, was named before I had even made it the 30 seconds back to the house...."stripes". Needless to say my mother made me immediately quit handling the very friendly coral snake and release him back into the field and bought my first ball python. Ever since then I quest for finding another coral snake has never ended, nor has the growth of my collection.

Luckily I have been blessed enough to have found a women in my life that shares the excitement of snakes and has allowed my collection to grow, but currently at a stop letting me know, that no more homes will be given until I give her a new bigger home, so yeah we went home shopping last night because I found an absolutely beautiful GTP that is really wanting to come home with me

CK SandBoas · 04-15-13, 06:55 AM

My dad....

TragicTaste · 04-15-13, 07:54 AM

I think for me it just kind of happened. No one in my family likes them, and outside of the overabundance of anoles and geckos that ran wild in our backyard, I never was really exposed to different reptiles. It just seems that it was a natural thing for me to admire them.

jennuhkins · 04-15-13, 09:24 PM

I caught a lot of blue belly lizards when I was little I didn't keep them for long I was just interested. I was about 11 and My neighbor was screaming yelling and called my name, i went running to her yard and she hit a gopher snake with a shovel, it was disorianted i never seen a snake in person only on animal planet but i knew it was a gopher snake, so i picked it up and took it to a field and waited with it until it was back to normal. 7th grade my teacher had some green anoles and I was the one who fed them and took care of their cage in class so he let me keep them during summer break. I have always been interested in all types of creatures.

MDT · 04-15-13, 09:47 PM

I saw a movie in 1975 (Disney's "One of our Dinosaurs is Missing")...one of the characters had a baby RTB. I was smitten from then on. I'm 47. My mother asks me to this day "if I'm ever going to outgrow this phase?".... Gotta love moms.

LadyWraith · 04-15-13, 10:15 PM

Been into critters from the get go but really became fascinated with constrictors specifically after handling the giant Burms at zoos and such. Add to that being around BPs owned by friends and I became hooked. I'm still partial to constrictors.

MikeM77 · 04-23-13, 08:03 AM

My pops was terified of snakes. Got my first bp when I moved into my first apartment. Kinda my first rebelion type deal. Any how I've been hooked since then.

moshirimon · 04-23-13, 08:05 AM

Wanted the closest thing to a dinosaur

Trollbie · 04-23-13, 08:43 AM

I love all animals and always wanted all of them as a kid. I had fish in college and one day, when I was going to the pet store to buy fish food, I accidentally came home with a milksnake. 3 weeks later I added a BRB, then a gecko, etc.... A year later I'm at 4 snakes, 1 gecko, and a tarantula. And I'm constantly itching for more.

Trollbie · 04-23-13, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by moshirimon

Wanted the closest thing to a dinosaur

Shouldn't you have gotten a bird instead then? Lol

smy_749 · 04-23-13, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollbie

I love all animals and always wanted all of them as a kid. I had fish in college and one day, when I was going to the pet store to buy fish food, I accidentally came home with a milksnake. 3 weeks later I added a BRB, then a gecko, etc.... A year later I'm at 4 snakes, 1 gecko, and a tarantula. And I'm constantly itching for more.

You should get that checked out. :P

smy_749 · 04-23-13, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollbie

Shouldn't you have gotten a bird instead then? Lol

I was thinking the same thing. Buy an ostrich or emu , plug all its feathers off, and paint him green. T REX !

Trollbie · 04-23-13, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollbie

I love all animals and always wanted all of them as a kid. I had fish in college and one day, when I was going to the pet store to buy fish food, I accidentally came home with a milksnake. 3 weeks later I added a BRB, then a gecko, etc.... A year later I'm at 4 snakes, 1 gecko, and a tarantula. And I'm constantly itching for more.

The only fix to that is a retic! Or a woma I guess. Anything, really haha

moshirimon · 04-23-13, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by smy_749

I was thinking the same thing. Buy an ostrich or emu , plug all its feathers off, and paint him green. T REX !

Visually reptiles were more like dinosaurs for me. Later on i found out about the whole bird thing... I still think dinosaurs were more like reptiles. That's just how I think of it in my world lol

smy_749 · 04-23-13, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollbie

The only fix to that is a retic! Or a woma I guess. Anything, really haha

So go get one then :-P.