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I was just sitting here thinking back to when i first became obsessed with reptiles and would like to here how others did.

When i was 4 my parents took me to the Ballarat Wildlife park and i remember patting a big olive python and this is where my love for reptiles started.
 
my grampa got me into reptiles when he had bluey's in the backyard and he fed them snails from the garden ever since then i've been hooked
 
Just really liked them since i was a kid. I had never handled one until i got my first hatchie.
 
have been interested for about 7 years, was at a mate's farm and we came across a rbb. He started "playing" with it and it was the best thing to see. I was hooked right there and then but only started keeping them about 6 mth's ago
 
I got my first herp when i was six ( blotched blue tounge ) and had a few turts in my time and since i have been 12 i have had pythons and now I'm nearly sixteen and have 5 pythons. Not too bad i think for a 16 year old.
 
i have been interested in reptiles my whole life but never really thought about owning one until last january when i went to keppel island off qld coast and saw some monitors up there ever since then i got a beardie, and also a maccie, but in the future i would love to get a lace moitor
 
When I was wee kid, I had a fascination with Dinosaurs. I can still remember a nightmare about a T-Rex trying to get into our house. 10 years later they made a movie about it. I'm still waiting for the royalties. Anyway, we arent allowed to clone dinosaurs yet so snakes and lizards will have to do for now.
 
I have always held all creatures in high regard, the more challenging the more i want it, also i grew up in new zealand where snakes are a little short on the ground, so when i came to oz and found all these beautifull pythons i became fascinated beyond the looking glass, then, at a private party between friends, a guest of the host who happened to work at a wildlife park in blacktown, (im being vague on purpose, anonimity and all that) brought a Yearling IJ-JCP out for a play and i was hooked, i applied for my licence a week later, and got my first snake within the month. It Died (don't ask me how, it died within the week, the seller advised me i should get an autopsy.... and the second hatchy (different breeder and species - 1st stimmy, 2nd bredli-was kept under exact same conditions and was FINE), then i got another who is now happily growing strong and is the female bredli in my album named Baillee, since then my collection has grown, and grown and grown to a fairly respectable collection, including snakes, and lizards, all in the last 2 years.
 
I fell in love with reptiles when I realised they had more personality than my first missus

ROLMFAO :) :)

I have always had a love for all animals big or small and have always wanted to own at least one of everything. I think this love got me into reptiles as everyone I know hates them. I have people that won't visit cos I have them and I only have 2 pythons and 3 beardies. Oh well, there loss. When I bought my diamond python in June '04, I thought that I would see how real my love for them is and see what I think of it a month down the track. I have since bought a childreni and 3 beardies and the only thing holding me back from buying more at the moment is spending money (I am married if you get my drift) so bit by bit. Reptiles are as addictive as tattoos. :) IMO
 
I have always been facinated by reptiles and until now just never had the oportunity to keep some...i think its a great little hobby.
 
until now just never had the oportunity to keep some

That is also the same as me. Then one day it dawmed on me that I am married, not living at home and I can do what I want. I then realised I had a WIFE and it took many fights but I eventually won and now she doesn't mind me having them.
 
I'm with Childreni at the top of the forum. I held a 6ft Olive python when i was in year 6. Then i did a project on reptiles and after a bit of research, decided i wanted a diamond python. the oldies wouldn't let me have a snake while i was living in their home, and every girlfriend i've had since put up a huge stink every time i mentioned i was about to get into keeping. Been single since April, been keeping since June. It took me a while to get my act together didn't it!
 
Good on ya Jet, now you just gotta find yourself a mate who accepts you for who you are instead of VITOing your hobbies and balking at your lifestyle, coz you'll never be able to stop at one.

hehe

Angel
 
lol JET
I have had male friends and boyfriends that didn't like them at all! wusses lol

my love of reptile began in school with dinosaur project ect then i kept little skinks from the backyard as a science project........but the REAL love of reptils began when i was about 10 and went to a reptile show and a monitor of some sort was getting shown around the room and it licked me up the nose!!
After that i was hooked but only last year when the real estate said i couldn't have and 'furry animals' did i get my asss in to gear and get me some reptiles
 
africancichlidau said:
I fell in love with reptiles when I realised they had more personality than my first missus :)
African, did she remarry or maybe have a sister?, cause I keep going to say similar things about my present wife as you do about your first wife on a regular basis.

I first got interested about 20 years ago, I lived in Proserpine in North QLD on 100 acres. I used to see a snake, a lizard, a frog, a tutrle every other day. I didn't realy know too much and bought a pair of Keel Backs off Rob Bredles, he said " what do you want them for, If you wait untill later I can get you something else". I couldn't wait and boughtb the Keel Backs. They were pretty cool, I had a half and half setup and the KB would go and catch their own fish from the water half as they liked.
Tourett
 
When I was 5 Years old in England, I held a family friends Garter Snake.
After which I spent 5 years trying to convince my mother that reptiles where the only pet for me.

Got my first reptiles at the ripe old age of 26.
 
I was one of those kids who used to collect all sorts of insects as pets and it always drove my Mum CRAZY!! lol
But my first ?reptile keeping experience? came when my uncle and aunty bought a 50acre property in the snowy mountains. It was about 12 years ago (when I was 10) that I caught my first frogs, copper head skinks and jacky dragons to lug back home to melbourne!! Since then I have accumulated MANY more ;) but my uncle and aunty are no longer into the idea of me catching and keeping their local wildlife!! :( Damn!! lol
And the passion continues......
 
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