You know when you're a herper when...

[Art Klass]

You know you're a herper when...

you get musked by a snake and the smell brings you back to a good place when you were a kid.

what say you?

 

[hhmoore]

I say welcome back, Art!!!

 

[Art Klass]

Hello Harald. It's good to hear from you. I'll be breeding the bulls that I got from you again this season. I was given some nice fat babies a couple of years ago. Nice stock.

 

[LauraB]

what say you?

You get tagged by your snake and you laugh

 

[Art Klass]

Better yet...

while being bitten, you scramble for you camera to get an awesome pic.

 

[Art Klass]

 

[Durante]

That is a good one. Extra bonus points to you if your righty & took that photo left handed.

what say you?

When you hide your secret ice cream stash under bags of frozen rodents.

 

[hhmoore]

Better yet...

while being bitten, you scramble for you camera to get an awesome pic.

I've posted enough of those shots over the years, lol. I think the one of the bullsnake hanging off my upper lip got me into the club.

 

[Araidia]

When you hide your secret ice cream stash under bags of frozen rodents.

lol, guilty.

How about when you go grocery shopping and the turtle gets all the super expensive organic veggies he can eat and your stuck eating the cheap stuff.

When it's 20 degrees outside and you walk into your room and it's like the tropics

You worry about what people think when they see red lights coming from your window lol (had a neighbor ask me one day lol)

You have an uncontrollable urge to catch/pet the wild reptiles

you take your reptiles for walks instead of a dog

when you come home from work to a swarm of neighborhood kids wanting to pet the baby snakes

but your relatives are too scared to come inside lol

when the reptile room is full and the cages start invading the rest of the house

when you keep telling yourself your only allowed to buy one more this year...7 snakes later

When you fall asleep the the soothing sound of all the escaped crickets

And my favorite, happened the other day. When you have to explain to the poor washer repairman why your basement is full of rats : ) He also showed up while I was cleaning the snake cages and I had answered the door with the Jaguar coastal sitting on my head lol.

 

[Art Klass]

When you move supplies and snakes in and out of your house under the cover of darkness...

I live in a community where most folks are retired. They just won't understand and they don't have a clue. It's best that way.

 

[rcarichter]

When you hide your secret ice cream stash under bags of frozen rodents.

When you hide your frozen rodents under the ice cream (so as to not gross out visiting relatives.

When sometimes the best place to incubate eggs is on the kitchen counter.

Noelle

 

[Mike Gay]

How about when you brag about what your reptile did the other day instead of your kids