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Originally Posted by Siduri19
my 3rd ex-husband.
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Good one!
My pet story:
I had a LOT of reptiles when I lived in Florida (back in 92-95)....
I had a couple of Columbian Boas... One about 3 feet long, one about 4 1/2.
Numerous Ball Pythons... kind of boring, but they are nice mellow snakes for friends and kids to handle.
Several types of King Snakes and Rat snakes....
I had several monitor lizards, including Savannah monitors (usually mellow, and very nice colors), Nile Monitors (cool-looking, like mini-Komodo dragons, with an equally nasty disposition), and several types of Geckos... Leopard Geckos are VERY cool lizards to own, by the way....
I also owned a couple of Egyptian Uromastyx lizards, which are very neat looking desert lizards, with beige-colored skin, a yellowish spotted pattern on their backs, and very spiky tails. These were my favorite lizards by far... So mellow most of the time, and just very unusual and interesting-looking. I was so into them that I acquired another one about a year and a half ago, from the Georgia Reptile Rescue people...
Never got into Iguanas, really... They are so common, as far as reptiles go, and they're also very messy and high-maintenance.
I also had several different turtles.... both land and water turtles.
My favorite snake was the Burmese Python that I owned in Florida. The sun room on the back of the duplex where I lived in Ormond Beach was his room.
Why his own room, you ask?... Because he was 18 feet long and about 160+ pounds, that's why!!!
He ate rabbits. Big ones. 2 or 3 every 10 days or so. My friends were very entertained by this. When it was time to feed him, 3 or 4 people would usually want to come over and have a "feed the snake" party.
He was also a VERY mellow snake, and was completely handle-able (aside from weighing as much as a person!)
I acquired most of these animals through a friend of mine (at the time) who ran an exotic animal importing business. I became "surrogate dad" for the occasional animal who arrived sick, injured, dehydrated, etc.... and just ended up keeping a lot of them.
When I moved to Atlanta in late '95, I sold them all... I knew I was going to be touring a lot more, and it was just too much hassle. Most of them went to breeders and/or serious reptile collectors.
Now I just have the Uromastyx, and three Basset Hounds.
Mike