[raybbr]

I absolutely abhor the sound of crickets. Why anyone would consider a reptile a pet is beyond me.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Why anyone would consider a reptile a pet is beyond me.”

I will admit that I LOVED the feel of a friend’s Ball Python in my hands (that sounds dirty but it is not!) but I don’t get it, either.

My Mom was a, ‘Crazy Bird Lady’ for a while with Cockatiels, Finches, and Canaries.

Never understood that either, and thank goodness THAT phase of her life is over. I was CERTAIN she’d be moving up to a Parrot and I’d be stuck with the thing 50 years later! ;)

[RoadGumby]

Why? Seeing as how I keep snakes, I’ll answer the why.

1. Easy to keep. Feed once a week or so.
2. Don’t bark at night.
3. Don’t chew up shoes.
4. Don’t shed fur all over the house.
5. Vacation friendly. Make sure water is good and go.
6. Should be bitten, (yes, it happens) I get more blood and pain playing with my cats.

[super7man]

We had a Horned Toad. Cute little guy. We captured him in Arizona. When we got him home and went to the pet store to get some Purina Horned Toad Chow, ran into a problem. The store owner said that new pet would probably die in about two weeks as it needed carpenter ants as about 80% of his diet.

Well, we had seen carpenter ants in the Santa Cruz mountains. About once a month I would head up into the hills with a shovel and cooler. I'd dig up a colony of ants and put it in the cooler. The ants were fine in the cooler doing their ant thing. They were also pretty aggressive so all we had to do to get them out is just put a little stick in their tunnel (I was going to say hole but decided there are too many FR smart alecks out there.) and they would swarm up the stick which could be dropped into the Horned Toad terrarium.

We had him for about 5 years. Nice little pet.

We still have him in a little box but he pretty flat now.

[matthew fuller]

I once kept a jumping spider as a pet- He/she ate baby crickets. I finally released him.