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| acd1984 |
Posted - 24/06/2011 : 23:28:27
How did you come about owning snakes/reptiles? whats your story?
Here's mine
Aside from a picture taken with a very large snake on Blackpool promonade, I had never really had any contact with snakes, and infact thought of them as slimy, ugly, dangerous monsters. That was until I went in to "The reptile room" in cleveleys More by accident than anything else. I was walking around looking at all the reptiles and snakes when a woman who worked there told us a little about the snakes and reptiles ect. she got a baby royal out of its little rub and instantly I fell in love with royals.
After doing some research and pricing up i decided to buy my first, and now I no longer see them as ugly slimy monsters, but as cute pets with real personallity and charm, and im sure he wont be my last royal.
whats your story?
*sorry about the wall of text |
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Posted - 25/06/2011 : 21:40:38
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Originally posted by reptilemadd
It was a bit of a mouth full bigdon the sad thing was it was a lavender king beautiful looking snake, I'm just not as "brave" as bats and didn't fancy getting tagged evry time I got it out lol.
Ha - that made me laugh - naughty snake!
But I'm not brave - Ziska's tags are only little nuzzles, and today she came out for armchair walkies without even trying to bite. |
| mystra |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 21:13:58
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Originally posted by Lotabob
[quote]Originally posted by Dio
OK my story is I loved dinosaurs as a kid reptiles naturally follow suit (I bet most reptile people loved dino's as a kid)
same here! i was obsessed with dinosaurs, i still have some of my books and maybe ( tucked into some forgotten part of my brain) some remains of the ridiculous knowledge i had about them as a kid still survive!! |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 20:48:18
It was a bit of a mouth full bigdon the sad thing was it was a lavender king beautiful looking snake, I'm just not as "brave" as bats and didn't fancy getting tagged evry time I got it out lol. |
| acd1984 |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 19:55:34
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spiders in this house are protected. Large ones all get called 'Mr Beck' - after the celebrated jazz player ...Big Spider Beck ...
Same here, only here they get called Fred for some unknown reason. |
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Posted - 25/06/2011 : 19:27:58
Erm, no, it's the Who.
I tried to google the lyrics and instead got an ad for Baytril?? |
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Posted - 25/06/2011 : 19:24:58
That's amazing - well, painful, but still amazing!
Apparently there are adders in a country park near here ...I would LOVE to see a wild adder myself ...
Ha- Boris the spider - isn't that a Pink Floyd track? |
| Lotabob |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 19:14:59
All my spiders are called Boris lol.
Yeah I was playing in the woods and I was in a tree I lowered myself to jump down and as I jumped down and hit the ground something whipped up and hit me in the shin and disappeared. I was walking home and my leg stopped working, my friends had to carry me home, my Mum sent for the emergency doctor and he looked at it and said I'd been bitten, most likely by an Adder. He gave me an injection which eased the pain and over the next few hours my leg went all red and swollen and it went all cracked and looked like meat marble lol. I was laid up for days and the swelling went down and the cracked skin soon healed. I spent hours in the woods after that trying to spot the Adder but I never saw it. |
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Posted - 25/06/2011 : 19:06:36
You were bitten by an ADDER??
Why? How? Wow!
'Pick up bugs kid' - lol same here! Even though I'm nearly 59, spiders in this house are protected. Large ones all get called 'Mr Beck' - after the celebrated jazz player ...Big Spider Beck ... |
| Lotabob |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 18:56:56
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Originally posted by Dio
a royal was a better starter snake as they don't bite
I love it when they say that, a non biting snake. Can someone tell Duke please. lol.
OK my story is I loved dinosaurs as a kid reptiles naturally follow suit (I bet most reptile people loved dino's as a kid) anyway I was one of those pick up bugs kids and had stick insect and used to feed small flys to the spiders in the garage to make them big and strong. I had geckos but my mum not really understanding their care rehomed them thinking they were neglected. Anyway huge pause with houses, girlfriends, etc and then about a year ago I decided it was time to rekindle my love for animals, I have always been fascinated with snakes, pretty much ever since I was bitten by a wild European Adder and ended up laid up for days with a knackered leg so I looked into small snakes, I fell in love with anery cornsnakes so got one (Spot), then I was thinking of getting a MBK so was talking to the guy in the shop and he said I should look at Royals, he got one out, it was rolled in a ball but after a whiole it unravelled and it just had the cutest little face I have ever seen so I paid a deposit there and then, and went away to do my homework, I picked him up once everything was sorted (Duke). The Boa was an easy one, I wanted a medium sized Boa and fell in love with a beautiful pale Boa, I got a setup sorted and went and bought her (Sanke). The next instalment of my story is when my reptile shop gets them in I will be buying a male harlequin crested gecko to complete my collection 9for now, he will be named Harley but I don't know how long I will have to wait. |
| Dio |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 18:34:50
I've always had the typical pets such as rabbits, hamsters and rats. I've always liked reptiles along with all animals but never really thought about getting one as a pet. Then i met my OH and he had a garter snake. I never got to see much of him other than about an inch of his tail whenever i used to go to his parents (he left him there when he moved out as the snake was quite old) as he was always in his hide. When he died a couple of years ago at the quite good age of 13 my OH said he'd want another one at some point.
Then one day we decided to go look at a newish reptile shop that was on the way to the New Forest just to see what they had. While in there the OH decided he'd like to get another snake so we had a look at the corn snakes. After talking to the guy that worked there he showed us a couple of corn hatchlings but then advised us that a royal was a better starter snake as they don't bite and are alot slower. He got Dio out for us to have a hold and it was love at first sight. An hour later while sat in the new forest we were phoning them up putting a deposit down on him and ordering the viv. I think that was the longest week ever waiting for that viv to arrive.
Now i've got the bug and i'd love another snake and i keep looking at getting a gecko but that will have to wait until i move out of my friends. |
| acd1984 |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 17:49:40
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Originally posted by reptilemadd
baby king snake which took an instant liking to me, so much so It wrapped Itself around my hand and promptly preceeded to try and eat my thumb, getting the whole of the top of it in it's mouth before one of the assisitants could extracate it lmao.
LOL! that made me laugh, talk about having eyes too big for the belly. |
| reptilemadd |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 17:02:08
Don't really know what it was but the series "life in cold blood" had a lot to do with it, so I started doing research and decided on a corn snake, although the first shop I went to tryed selling me anything but a corn snake, the first snake I held was a baby king snake which took an instant liking to me, so much so It wrapped Itself around my hand and promptly preceeded to try and eat my thumb, getting the whole of the top of it in it's mouth before one of the assisitants could extracate it lmao.
Anyway instead of putting me off it only encouraged me more although not a king snake, then came four bearded dragons closely followed by my first royal, and the rest as they is history |
| mystra |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 15:51:21
well as a kid i was obsessed by the burmese python Susie who lived at Stapley Water Garden's little zoo thingy, and had lots of toy snakes because of that. I had hamsters and the usual pets as a kid, and the assumption always was that reptiles sold as pets were hard to look after and had been caught from the wild, which my mum really disagreed with.
Now i've grown up (and sadly learnt that big Susie died a couple of years ago, although did see her about 4 years ago) and a friend i know bought a corn snake, and i fell in love with him, and learnt that most snakes aren't complicated to house etc as i thought and the vast majority of them aren't wild caught (i know WC animals are necessary to enhance the gene pool of the lines we have over here as pets, so i'm not against it as such) but bred by reputable people. So i finally took the plunge and bought my first corn Betty, few months later another (Sanchez) and then i took a big jump at last and got my royal, Chancho!
My boyfriend also really wants a tortoise... and he's also in love with the big water monitors thanks to Hector on Essex Jungle lol... not sure if that's a good thing lol!! I think until we have more space (and a garden!) we'll hold off those! |
| stumpy |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 09:48:45
Like BATS my parents didnt want animals in the house. so i thought my kids would never grow up not having a dog or cat. First came the dog, then the horse and another and another then my pride and joy my 2 German Shepherds and a cat, but the years went by and as in life they have all died, and me getting older I thought have something manageable so ended up with a boder collie who is now 15 and JR who is five. When I retired i heard of proteus so i went along to have a look at at their reptiles fell in love with a corn, went home researched got all the stuff and went back and bought her, but it do'sent stop at one, thought i would like something bigger and had Zuri this year, thinking about another but we will see. Husband just lets me get on with it, not an animal person, he got his motorbikes I got my animals. Thanks for reading my book. |
| Margwar |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 09:39:22
Similar story to bigdon, photo with a massive snake in Blackpool. Never really liked them much, a friend of mine had two corn snakes, looking back, they were kept in awful conditions, and because of that, the smell put me off.
Then I met my partner, he had one male Royal Python, it took me 4-5 years to get comfortable around him, to actually handle him and let him near me. 2 years later, we started frequenting Carnon Downs Reptiles, and I fell in love with a little King snake. Up until this point, we'd never really had the money for another enclosure, but after finding out the amazingness of RUBs, we discovered we actually had some at home already! So, after getting a job, my partner bought me the lovely (At the time) little King snake as a congratulations present.
Now, he's always wanted more snakes, it's just been the space and money issue, but we finally got permission to turn the spare bedroom into a snake room, down came the old bed, it got turned into a mini rack (Kind of) then came the Common Boa, at £40 and just down the road from our house we couldn't say no! So they were happily set up in their RUBs.
Breeding snakes has been something we've both wanted to do for a long time, this is where our latest Royal comes into it, our tiny 4 year old Female, thinking about it, she was a slightly impulse buy, and I probably should have saved the money and waited for a larger girl to come along, but once I saw her I was in love, and I wasn't going to let her go back into the awful conditions she was in.
So, that is my snake story, from being scared of them, so owning 4 within the space of 5 years or so, and there are many more to come! |
| Cre |
Posted - 25/06/2011 : 07:41:34
I am blaming the Reptile Room too! Hubby got me a tortoise for my birthday last year which meant looking around the Rep Room and Jack seeing snakes. Then him researching, nagging and saving all his birthday/christmas/pocket money, buying a faunarium, heat mat, stat, hide etc the bought a really lovely royal all by himself. Then my boys and myself bought my hubby (their dad lol) a baby corn for Fathers day. |
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Posted - 25/06/2011 : 00:20:07
I always, always, wanted to own a snake since being small and being allowed to help handle a neighbour's grass snake. Parents hated pets and though I was a quiet but determined child who acquired a collection of small mammals, frogs, fish and whatever, a snake would never have been tolerated. I married young, to a husband who claimed to be totally snake-phobic. He heroically tolerated a lot of cats though. We split up. The only snake I'd met in all this time was a garter snake who was boarding with a friend and who was afraid of her cats. So since I had cats, I felt I couldn't have a snake. Furthermore I thought that snake-owning was something terrifically specialised and exclusive and that I'd be laughed at if I went into a shop and asked to buy a snake ...
Two years ago I got into aquariums ...the shop also sold snakes. I spent more time looking at the snakes. Eventually I plucked up courage to go in and enquire about a corn hatchling, and would it be afraid of cats ...
As for the rest of my story - just look at my sig! |
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