New soon-to-be King Owner

D Grade · 12-30-14, 02:11 AM

Hey all,

Ive always been into snakes, but I think moving to Rattler-rich Arizona back in September has resparked my snake interest. My wife has been scared of snakes her whole life, but my 3.5 year old daughter and I love em and somehow I talked her into possibly getting a snake.

So last weekend we visited the local reptile shop and checked a few out. I ended up holding an extremely well behaved, healthy, and beautiful 3.5' black and white King Snake. I actually got my wife to do something she never thought she'd EVER do.......she touched the snake I was holding. Tried to get her to hold it but she said "baby steps".

I think she was impressed with how tame it was. We decided to buy a King Snake book and we are planning to go back and pick up an adolescent twin of the 3.5' I held. Seems like these are a great first snake to start with and Im extremely stoked about it. As soon as funds are available, were heading back to pick up the adolescent we found.

Happy to be here, I look forward to learning!

**EL Ziggy** · 12-30-14, 12:39 PM

Welcome and best wishes D. Kings are excellent snakes for beginners and experienced keepers IMO. You'll find lots of nice people and great information on this forum. Please share pics of your king when you can.

**Minkness** · 12-30-14, 01:52 PM

A king is my 1st and I couldn't be happy with her! Like your wife, my mom HATES them. She hasn't taken the step to touch yet, but she did comment just the other night how tame and chill mt girl is lol.

Congrats in your victory of the all mighty 'YES'! Can't wait to see more if your posts introducing us to your new addiction...I mean addition hehe. ^_^

sharthun · 12-30-14, 02:41 PM

Hey and welcome! Kings are awesome snakes!

bigsnakegirl785 · 12-30-14, 05:01 PM

Hello and welcome.

D Grade · 12-30-14, 07:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minkness

Congrats in your victory of the all mighty 'YES'! Can't wait to see more if your posts introducing us to your new addiction...I mean addition hehe. ^_^

Haha, yes indeed! I was rather surprised but excited non the less.

Thanks for the warm welcome, Ill be sure to post pics of our newly acquired family member aka: death worm.

FWK · 12-30-14, 08:09 PM

Rofl, excellent name, Death Worm. Bravo. I don't name my snakes other than for ease of record keeping (and even then it is simple nicknames, the Speckled King is Speck, the Bullsnake is Bull, etc.) but I'm a bit tempted to steal that.

D Grade · 12-30-14, 09:33 PM

Yeah I saw that term used on the venomous forum and thought it was pretty funny. Were still trying to decide what to name ours, guess it depends on whether or not we know the sex of the snake we choose.

**Minkness** · 12-30-14, 09:37 PM

Knowing gender is important to me, which is why I'm super happy I got my baby online from the breeder. Guaranteed female!

D Grade · 12-30-14, 09:40 PM

Yeah Im planning on buying local and knowing the sex is important to me too. Hopefully they offer sexing where Im planning on buying, I wouldnt feel comfortable doing it myself yet.

**Minkness** · 12-30-14, 09:55 PM

Good luck! The places near me can't sex for crap =/

D Grade · 12-30-14, 10:14 PM

Yeah well see. If they cant do it then Ill take it to a herp to get it identified.