I had no problem keeping Nikki interested in herps.....she has been interested all her life. she is continuing in my footsteps...hopefully. she is volunterring at the shelter I work at, and hopes someday to be an animal control officer like me!! the easterns are doing great!!!! the larger female ate her first pinkie mouse!!!!! the others are taking pinkie parts and worms. I had to send a male to Scott....I owed him some money for snakes I got...so he has one of the males.
I was lucky when I was a kid....we had fence lizards most summers. when I hit my freshman year in high school, I was allowed to have garter snakes only....after I built a 3 ft by 2 ft snake cage. I have been keeping herps ever since then....28 years!!! not counting all the lizards in all the summers when I was younger!!! I am pretty good at letting my kids have critters....most of the time and also depending on what the critter is!!!!