My husband acquired his first snake in 1988, a wild-caught speckled kingsnake. His passion grew from there. We met in 1992, at that time he had boas, burms, ball pythons and iguanas. I had the learned fear of snakes, it took a short time for me to get over this fear. Over the next several years, we acquired many types of snakes and lizards. My involvement was limited, it was easier for me to clean the cages while my husband handled the snakes. This fear was overcome by being allowed to take things at my own pace. These are amazing animals that I have grown to love.

Our son was born in 1995, this resulted in a downsizing of our collection to the point of complete departure from reptiles in 1998. After hearing the stories and seeing pictures of our previous collection, our son wanted to get a snake. In early 2006, we decided we would get him a corn snake. After seeing how much the industry had changed over the last 8 years, we were excited enough to get some of our own.

Oh how the times have changed, when we were a part of the reptile world back in the 1990's, there weren't many outlets to buy or sell offspring. The internet was in its infancy, there were only a handful of morphs. Now the internet plays a big part of the industry, there is a wide array of information available. The number of morphs has increased substantially. The possibilities are endless.

We have over 200 various burmese pythons, ball pythons, and boa constrictors in our collection. Our son currently has 11 corn snakes and a spider ball python, all of which have been either earned or purchased with his own money. He is on his way to becoming a successful breeder as well.

The burmese python is my husband's first love (after his family, of course) but the caging requirements are difficult to accommodate, the decision was made to stay with animals of smaller size. This was until we discovered the dwarf burmese pythons. Our goal is to integrate the morphs into the dwarf size so that everyone can keep burms. All of the morphs and combinations of morphs within the boas and balls are exciting and we look forward to creating some interesting combinations of our own.

This is a great time to be part of the herp world and we are here to stay!